Success with online sales starts with strong data quality by Susan Pichoff via @infomgmt

Selling online works well when complete and accurate product information is readily available, easily found and reliable.

I would add to Susan's article that Data Stewardship is key as you need to have key people take responsibility for the product data describing them and a) ensuring it is correct plus b) being responsible for quickly correcting it when errors are found.  Susan is also right that incorrect or incomplete information on products turns the customer off and they are very unlikely to purchase from you.

3 big open data trends in the United States by @sammcclenney via @opensourceway

What are the practical ramifications of city leadership, data standards, and data sharing across the country?

I think open data is a great thing and any step to remove sharing and access to that data is a retrograde step.  Insight into data can come from anyone if the data is open, and that data can be combined with new data sources for new insights.

What effective information stewardship would have done by Andrew White via @infomgmt

Imagine that – information stewardship solutions (at some point in the future) might negate the need to collect and centralise data in order to govern it.

I think this is something great that is certain to be there in the future. If it doesn't start being dome automatically time will be spent on wasted doing this and there is still no guarantee on the quality of the data and the result.

Separating the Good from the Bad in the World of Big Data by Karen Peters via @infomgmt

As our world becomes more connected and the amount of data that is available increases, companies must make sure they are developing their own processes for collecting the best data.

Whilst this may read as cleaning data and only taking good data I would like to suggest a caution - you need integrity between your reporting and source so you cannot modify or delete data from your reporting or analytics as it will be incorrect. You have to develop a strategy to handle incorrect data as well as doing more to make sure the data is correct in the first place.   This also reminds me of the problems with reporting from a Data Warehouse and so in this aspect I don't believe that what we do with Big Data will be so different from this standpoint.

Big Data: Who Should Be in Charge?

This article by +Matrix IBS discusses if control should move from business Data Stewards to IT.

I have to say having seen both sides I think Data Stewards should stay in the business - it helps to give balance if it stays a partnership between IT and Business.

Five models for Data Stewardship

In this White Paper on the Information Management website written by Jill Dyche & Analise Polsky for SAS they go through 5 different models for Data Stewardship.

I have experienced models 1,2 and 4 which all work in their own way.  Whilst I agree it IS a business function it has needed IT help often to provide the glue between those functions.