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Published inSep 2023
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Robert Hawker
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Robert Hawker

Robert Hawker started his career as a chartered accountant before making the leap into data in 2007. He led data teams within two global implementations of SAP, looking after master data management, data ownership and stewardship, metadata management, and, of course, data quality over a 14-year period. He moved into analytics in 2017 and now specializes in Microsoft Power BI training, implementation, administration, and governance work. He lives in the UK and shares his experiences through conference and blogs.
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Best practices

The difficulty of this section is in selecting the most useful best practices to highlight. To select the best practices for this chapter, criteria were created, and each best practice was scored against these criteria.

Selecting the best practices

The criteria were as follows:

  • Level of impact: How significantly the best practice could influence the success or failure of the initiative. Best practices scoring highly were essential, with the initiative risking failure if they were not implemented.
  • Tangibility: How easily the best practice can be translated immediately into action. Best practices scoring highly could be introduced without delay or preparation.
  • Duplication: This factor was about assessing which best practices had already been covered in previous chapters. Best practices scoring highly would have only been mentioned in passing in previous chapters, or not yet mentioned at all.
  • Quality of available examples: This is linked to how...
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Robert Hawker

Robert Hawker started his career as a chartered accountant before making the leap into data in 2007. He led data teams within two global implementations of SAP, looking after master data management, data ownership and stewardship, metadata management, and, of course, data quality over a 14-year period. He moved into analytics in 2017 and now specializes in Microsoft Power BI training, implementation, administration, and governance work. He lives in the UK and shares his experiences through conference and blogs.
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