Data Products and Domain Ownership
A platform can hold two hundred “data products” that nobody uses. The label is free; the consumer, the contract, and the support are not.
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Data Fabric
Ask which capability is actually being offered — cataloguing, virtualization, lineage, policy enforcement — rather than whether to adopt the concept.
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Data Product Owner
The role is not “the person whose name is in the owner field.” It is whoever can say no to a request and explain why to the consumer.
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Federated Computational Governance
Autonomy without common rules fragments, and common rules with no enforcement are only requests. The platform automates the repeatable checks, people keep exceptions and review, and the hard part is drawing the line.