Governance | Thomas Nys | The Fractional Data Architect

AI-Ready Means Data-Ready

AI-Ready Means Data-Ready

Shadow data productivity cost - hidden hours lost to ungoverned spreadsheets

Shadow Data Costs Your Team 8-9 Hours/Week

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

Citizen Development Creates Enterprise Debt

Customer data fragmentation - governance gaps when 47 systems disagree

When Your Customer Data Lives in 47 Places

Data governance design principles - building compliance into architecture

Effective governance is built in, not bolted on

Decision-making architecture - designing governance into system design

You can't design great systems without designing how deci...

AI governance visibility gap - tracking deployed tools across the organization

Most teams can't even list the AI tools they've deployed.

AI foundation requirements - poor architecture blocks AI success at scale

AI doesn't kill architecture. Bad architecture kills AI