Author: Dannette McGilvray

An internationally respected expert, Danette McGilvray guides leaders and staff as they increase business value through data quality and governance. This data approach benefits focused initiatives (such as security, analytics, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, data science, and compliance) so that high-quality data will support whatever is most important to an organization, protect its data assets, and help manage risk. Granite Falls helps connect business strategy with practical steps for addressing specific data quality/governance issues, implementing programs, and improving operational processes. As president and principal of Granite Falls Consulting, Inc., Danette is committed to the appropriate and effective use of technology and also to addressing the human aspect of data management through communication and change management. See www.gfalls.com. Danette is the author of Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted InformationTM, 2nd Ed. (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2021), which shares a proven method used successfully by multiple industries in many countries. Her book is often described as a “classic” or noted as one of the “top ten” data management books in social media conversations. The book is used in university graduate programs and has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. The Spanish translation is currently underway. Danette is a co-author of “The Leader’s Data Manifesto”, a document used to raise awareness about treating data as a business asset. She has overseen its translation into 24 languages. See www.dataleaders.org