Posts | Thomas Nys | The Fractional Data Architect

Data team burnout causes - context switching costs that kill productivity

Why Your Data Team Is Burned Out

Architecture business alignment - translating technical design into outcomes

Mapping Architecture to Outcomes

Shadow IT governance risk - citizen development hidden costs for data teams

Citizen Development Creates Enterprise Debt

Data platform ROI calculation - making invisible benefits visible to CFOs

The Data Platform ROI Nobody Calculates

CEO architecture awareness - technical foundations that shape strategic options

The Architecture Conversation CEOs Avoid

Customer data fragmentation - governance gaps when 47 systems disagree

When Your Customer Data Lives in 47 Places

AI governance bottleneck - slow approval processes driving shadow AI adoption

AI Governance - Why 82% Are Scrambling

Cloud cost optimization - architecture decisions behind $100B annual waste

Cloud Cost Shock - $100B in Waste

Data quality ownership crisis - why 77% rate quality average or worse

Data Quality Crisis - 77% Admit Failure

Data quality diagnostics - how bad data reveals organizational dysfunction

Data Quality as Organizational Signal