In my previous post, I used a game show metaphor for one aspect of metadata management, namely making sure table definitions are not ambiguously labeled. In this post, I will use name tags as a metaphor to discuss an important intersection of metadata management and master data management (MDM), an
In the era of big data, Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schonberger noted in their book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, “we are in the midst of a great infrastructure project that in some ways rivals those of the past, from the Roman aqueducts
In physics, antimatter has the same mass, but opposite charge, of matter. Collisions between matter and antimatter lead to the annihilation of both, the end result of which is a release of energy available to do work. In this blog series, I will use antimatter as a metaphor for a
Do you have a vision for master data for the next two years? Five years? Ten years? Do you have a "workable" strategy (you know, a strategy that will work for your company)? Master data should be the backbone of any organization, and part of any data strategy. It should feed business intelligence with important
In physics, antimatter has the same mass, but opposite charge, of matter. Collisions between matter and antimatter lead to the annihilation of both, the end result of which is a release of energy available to do work. In this blog series, I will use antimatter as a metaphor for a
In physics, antimatter has the same mass, but opposite charge, of matter. Collisions between matter and antimatter lead to the annihilation of both, the end result of which is a release of energy available to do work. In this blog series, I will use antimatter as a metaphor for a
In physics, antimatter has the same mass, but opposite charge, of matter. Collisions between matter and antimatter lead to the annihilation of both, the end result of which is a release of energy available to do work. In this blog series, I will use antimatter as a metaphor for a
“You don’t make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That’s a warehouse,” explained Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson in their bestselling book Rework. “What makes a museum great is the stuff that’s not on the walls. Someone says no. A
Jim Harris (@ocdqblog) explains how to eenie, meanie, mindie your MDM sources.
Previously, I outlined a “bridge to nowhere” situation involving a former client and a CRM system that failed to achieve its goals. The CRM software ultimately became a well-intentioned business application with little real business application. In this post, I'll review the steps that this company missed with the CRM
