An Open Source Solution for Master Data Management
In most large organisations, managing master data is a very complex problem that technology alone will not solve. The majority…
Martha Stewart and Data-Centricity
One of the LinkedIn Groups I participate in has spent the past two months discussing the following question: “Respect for data…
In Defense of Data Mining Ethics
Jim Stodgell has a though-provoking post at O'Reilly Radar today on the ethics of data mining and personalization. He frames…
Getting Started with an Integration Competency Center (ICC)
In the last several posts we discussed how critical data governance programs are to the success of EDW, MDM, CDI…
“Data Retention? Yes, please!”
There are good reasons for taking a very close look at anything that threatens basic civil liberties, which is why…
Data Privacy: the Creepy vs. the Terrifying
At the e-G8 summit yesterday, I got into a little spat over privacy. My point, in a panel discussion, was…
Risk and Five Sigma Events – Can They Happen to You?
Perhaps it’s a sense of optimism wired into humans (or conversely delusion), but when business managers think of worst case…
Governance of the People? Of the Data? For the …
Just read Julie Hunt’s blog on the connections between business process and data governance. Interesting. http://preview.tinyurl.com/proc1hunt. In it, she quotes Rob…
