Danette McGilvray

Danette McGilvray is president and principal of Granite Falls Consulting, Inc., a firm that guides leaders and staff as they increase business value through data quality and governance. Focusing on bottom-line results, Granite Falls helps connect business strategy with practical steps for addressing specific data quality and governance issues, implementing programs, and improving operational processes. 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. An internationally respected expert, Danette is well known for her book, Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™ (1st Ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 2008, and 2nd Ed. Elsevier/Academic Press, 2021). Her Ten Steps™ approach has been embraced as a proven method for managing data quality, developed from many years of hands-on experience. This data approach benefits focused initiatives (such as security, analytics, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, data science, and compliance) and means that high-quality data will support whatever is most important to an organization, protect its data assets, and help manage risk. The Ten Steps™ approach has been used in multiple industries in many countries and the book has been used in university graduate programs. Her book is often described as a “classic” or noted as one of the “top ten” data management books in social media conversations. A Chinese-language version is available.