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Donuts, Content Management and Information Governance
I was on vacation for two weeks, which was awesome, and my girls mainly wanted to do two things: Eat great homemade food (Beehive Cake, a Scandinavian classic, was on the list of 10 recipes) Do crafts...
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Déjà Vu All Over Again: Business + IT = Success
Although it’s tempting to ignore it, IT, you still need the business side to have a successful information governance initiative. Lots of times, customers ask me how mature the EIM market is,...
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Who Notices When Data Is Missing? Your Customers Do.
Research agency Vanson Bourne surveyed 500 IT Managers and CIOs in the UK and found that: One-third of large companies in the UK have lost customers/new business due to missing data Eighty-eight...
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Health Workers Warned Over Protecting Patients’ Data
Nearly always, the first question I get asked in regard to information governance is “how do I sell the value? I know things are bad, but no one is willing to put money or resources behind the effort.”...
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Talent Retention Is Directly Related to EIM Success
This week I talked to two different customers who were going through organizational pain. In both cases, they had strong management who understood the value of truly treating information as an...
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Holding Out for an Information Governance Hero
In talking to customers last week, they again reinforced that information governance success is still on the horizon for each of them—and these were companies that had a dedicated data governance...
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Data Decay Can Silently Cripple Your Business [Infographic]
Zoominfo.com recently published a nice data decay infographic (a small version is included at the end of this post), that shows the level of master data change for business information. Why is...
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New York’s Policing Strategy Highlights Big Data Problems
Is anyone out there a fan of the new television series Person of Interest? In that show, a computer genius gathers big data from multiple sources (traffic cameras, crime reports, facial recognition,...
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Need Help Selling Your Information Governance Initiative?
If you’re one of the many who isn’t yet tracking metrics and constantly reporting business value achieved through your efforts, you can use the Gartner whitepaper statistic below to help you quantify...
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Can Information Governance Help Me Find My TV?
USA reported an interesting story about a musician who ordered a Westinghouse TV from Amazon (purchased from a third party provider). Some of you probably did that yourself over the holidays. He...
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What is Dirty Data Costing You?
How Bad Can Dirty Data Be? Intrinsically, you know that you need good data. But how far do you need to go to tidy up dirty data? What are the real costs incurred if you DON’T have clean data? The...
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Get Your Hands Dirty, Data Scientists!
Have you read Gartner’s research note on Defining and Differentiating the Role of the Data Scientist? You can hardly read anything about enterprise information management (EIM) without bumping into...
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Financial Reform: Protect Yourself With An Agile Information Architecture
Remember the financial meltdown? Experts still can’t decide if we’re on the road to recovery…how long that road may be…or even if there is a road. As a nation, though, we did agree to more oversight...
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Get Off That IT Treadmill With A Product Management Practice
One of the consistent themes I hear from IT is that a line of business of department bought its own tool, and then handed it off to IT to support. Also, many times when we ask IT what features their...
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Hey, Where Did You Get Your Data?
In this 5-part series, I’ll walk you through some of the details around trusted data discovery, or governed data discovery. The goal is to get you past the mom-and-apple-pie idea of trusted data...
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Changing The IT Culture For Self-Service BI Success
IT culture has largely been established around the high demands of enterprise reporting and corporate dashboards. These demands have inspired IT to set up strict rules for governance, policies, and...
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When Good Is Good Enough: Guiding Business Users On BI Practices
In Part One of this blog series, I talked about changing your IT culture to better support self-service BI and data discovery. Absolutely essential. However, your work is not done! Self-service BI and...
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We, Not Me: The Impact Of Siloed BI Thinking
The final blog in my 3-part series, this post addresses convincing the various lines of business and departments that the needs of the “we” outweigh the needs of “me.” Example 1 A consumer packaged...
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The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors – Gear Up With Self-Service BI
The night IS dark and full of terrors: Dark because no one quite articulates what they mean by self-service BI. Unless someone does the work to clarify and shine a light on self-service BI, the night...
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Unburnt: Data Strategies To Support Self-Service BI
Dude. You need a data strategy for self-service BI. The unburnt is one who can stand in the fire and some out unscathed—this will not happen without a new, flexible, scalable data strategy. This...
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