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CPS 230: When Operational Risk became everyone's problem: If there is one regulatory development that has fundamentally changed how APRA-regulated entities must think about operational risk, it is Prudential Standard CPS 230. It didn't introduce an entirely new concept, operational resilience has long been an expectation, but it did make the rules explicit, enforceable, and considerably harder to ignore.

A common mistake in data conversations is to treat governance and observability as interchangeable. They are not. D/I O11y overlaps with governance, compliance, management and strategy — but it is distinct from all four.

For most of human history, data was scarce. Our ancestors were “data foragers,” struggling to gather even a handful of observations to inform critical decisions. A farmer in 1900 relied on almanacs, folklore, and personal experience. Perhaps a few dozen data points, to decide when to plant crops.

Each quadrant of the uncertainty matrix splits into positive and negative scenarios — giving us eight distinct situations demanding different governance approaches. Traditional PMO works for four of them and actively harms the other four.

Daniel Rolles participated in FIMA 2025 at The Kia Oval in London, sharing insights on the convergence of Data Governance and AI Governance with industry leaders from across Europe's financial services sector.

Gen AI projects reveal inadequacy of inherited frameworks. Learn why 95% of GenAI pilots fail not from technical risks, but from unvalidated assumptions about adoption, workflow fit, and business value—and how to navigate uncertainty rather than just manage risk.

Both F1 racing and modern data platforms rely on telemetry to prevent disasters. The difference? F1 cars cost £15 million and get 300 sensors. Your data estate? Worth billions, gets a quarterly audit.

A day across London's data and AI ecosystem revealed the rapid convergence of enterprise data governance and AI engineering—from Collibra's OpenLineage commitment to AWS/NVIDIA RAG evaluation frameworks. These mirror-image problems are solving through shared observability infrastructure.

I challenged Claude Sonnet 4.5 to destroy our Data & Information Observability framework. What followed was one of the most intellectually challenging conversations about whether we're selling genuine innovation or just repackaging old ideas with new terminology.

It's encouraging to see open standards taking a prominent place at Big Data London. At BearingNode, we're invested in communities like OpenLineage and are thrilled to see the industry embracing open source solutions for next-generation data, analytics, and AI architecture.

As AI systems move from experimental projects to business-critical applications, organisations need comprehensive AI observability and governance frameworks that actually work in practice. Join BearingNode at Big Data London 2025.

Join BearingNode at Big Data London 2025 as we highlight essential sessions on real-world data observability implementations, from Iceberg deployments to enterprise-scale solutions at Dun & Bradstreet and Arch Capital.

AI productivity gains stall when organisations rush transformation without first maturing data discovery & classification foundations.

BearingNode CEO Daniel Rolles presented to the OpenLineage Technical Steering Committee on how open standards can address the ongoing BCBS239 compliance challenges facing financial institutions worldwide.

The EDM Council's DataVision EMEA 2025 revealed three fundamental shifts reshaping data governance in the AI era: the move from governance by policy to governance by evidence, the evolution of standards frameworks, and the challenges of federated data management at scale.

The Rise of Data and Information Observability: Moving Beyond Traditional Methods.

BearingNode is proud to introduce our Data and Information Observability (D/I O11y) framework.

Explore the critical distinctions between data and information with practical frameworks for data leaders. Learn how context transforms raw data into actionable information for strategic decision-making.