Episode 2 (“Where is My Feasibility Report?!?”)

Episode 2 of the Castlebridge Podcast is out today. In it we discuss a number of media stories that broke in Ireland over the last month or so that have a data management perspective. In the recording, we discuss the role of strategy and your strategic vision in your data management planning, the importance of understanding the value that data can bring to the organisation, and the need to ensure appropriate governance on data-related (and data-driven) decision making.

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Background Links

CCTV in Creches

• CCTV in Creche poses a huge risk to childrens’ privacy (news)
• “The Obvious Solution” is the Wrong One (Why CCTV in Creches won’t make your child safer) (blog)
• O’Keefe contributes to the Sean O’Rourke Show at RTE 1 (news)

Public Services Card report from Data Protection Commission

• Data Protection Commission statement on Public Service Card (news)
• Data Protection isn’t just about privacy: an object lesson… (blog)
• A guarded welcome to Public Service Card Findings (blog)
• Innovators, embrace your critics (news)
• Castlebridge discuss PSC on Newstalk (news)
• Daragh O Brien on Today FM discussing Public Service Card (news)

Apple/Siri transcription issues

• Apple Contractors regularly hear confidential details on Siri recordings 
• Hundreds of contractors lose jobs after hearing Siri users’ private conversations.
• Katherine O’Keefe on the Last Word (Today FM)

OPW Visitors Book and GDPR

• OPW removes visitor books from sites amid GDPR fears (news)
• OPW Removes Visitor Books From Historical Sites Over GDPR Fears.  (news)
• The Case of the Vanishing Visitors Book (blog)
• Daragh O Brien on Today with Miriam O’Callaghan (news)

The Acquisition/Analysis/Action life cycle

Daragh refers to this in the podcast. It’s a simple life cycle model we use to help clients analyse and define their information strategy and assess issues and risks at three key phases. It’s discussed in Daragh and Katherine’s book. Basically, it requires you to consider how you are getting data (and the issues/risks/opportunities at that phase), how you will analyse the data (including how it will be done/resourced, and what the questions are you will want answered), and what you will then do with the answers you get from the data (what Actions will you take).

Data Quality

• The Importance of Data Quality (Forbes Magazine)
• Extract from Data Strategy  Governance toolkit by Daragh O Brien
• A paper from our partners in Australia, Experience Matters on benefits of Data Quality and Information Management
• A 2009 blog post by Daragh on the importance of good data quality to business decision making
• Research from UCC and Dr Thomas C Redman (“The Data Doc”) showing only 3% of businesses have data that’s “fit for purpose”.