Getting executive buy-in is critical for any enterprise initiative. Apart from the approval of resources, executives will determine the level of commitment of the initiative for the rest of the organization. Without this commitment, enterprise initiatives such as CDI and MDM are bound to fail — or at least fail to live up to expectations — and end up mired in politics or the absence of support. - Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes it appears that there are two competing aspects of data quality. One is the focus on data cleansing, in which “bad” data is corrected, while the other focuses on process management, in which the sources of data flaws are corrected. - Read the rest of this entry »
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. We were supposed to be able to centralize our data on an enterprise data warehouse and have it all harmonically coexist. - Read the rest of this entry »
Okay, enough is enough! How much is a certain credit card company going to spend to get my son to apply for its VISA card? Really, my son is only four years old, and the credit card company has so far sent him seven applications, some of which had varying inducements (one offered extra miles in the company’s frequent flyer program). - Read the rest of this entry »
Ever since I can remember, my last name has been a source of grief for me and various family members. It’s a Gallic last name — the origin of which I have neither the time nor the patience to research — that has been a source for endless familial debate. - Read the rest of this entry »
Although I wrote about ongoing measurements and quality control in my book on data quality, what has become more interesting to me five years later is the challenge in presenting the results of ongoing measurement in a way that effectively articulates the relationship between the measurement and the business value implied by rule compliance. - Read the rest of this entry »
MDM, CDI, and PDM are terms that can be confusing, and at the same time, they can be effective in solving certain kinds of data problems. However, organizations should never lose sight of their broader data problems. - Read the rest of this entry »
I am perplexed. One of our clients spent a reasonable amount of money last year on our development of a series on analytical projects intended to pilot the concept of a Business Intelligence program. Yet neither of us is happy… - Read the rest of this entry »
If I hear “forty is the new thirty” one more time I’m gonna punch somebody in the nose. When I turned 40 it was almost like my body flipped a switch… - Read the rest of this entry »
The other day I was rummaging around in some of my papers, and I came across a data management survey that was published a couple of years ago. These type of surveys aren’t exactly rare, but this one struck me (perhaps I just happened to be in the right frame of mind at the time) because it considered some of the issues that I have been mulling over lately. - Read the rest of this entry »
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