Why Agile is Like Football
In any team sport, there are persons who never score. Test your trivia mind on that! They do not play…
Data Articles
A Universal Problem in Data Management – Classification
Some classification problems are very straightforward. For example, a data vendor uses a numerical country code, and the business uses…
Transforming Logistics Using Big Data
Big Data and logistics are made for each other, and today the logistics industry is positioning itself to put this…
Data Science is Sexy
As titles go, this one has an impeccable pedigree. In October of 2012, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an article entitled…
Data Warehousing in the 21st Century
To be a successful relative company in the 21st century, analytics is no longer an option, but a requirement. Yet,…
The Agile Enterprise Coach
When your organization chooses to transition into more agile and leaner ways of working, you quickly discover that this effort…
Don’t Neglect Database Performance
One of the most time-consuming aspects of being a DBA is assuring the performance of database systems and applications. A…
Hearing the Voice of Your Customer
What do these very diverse businesses have in common? TWA. PAN AM. Woolworth’s. Sports Authority. Staples. Banana Republic. They have one…
Non-Invasive Data Governance A to Z
This article by Bob Seiner is a brief attempt to associate important Data Governance Terms to each letter of the…
Designing Data Governance
In our last entry, we talked about assessment. Now we’re moving into the design phase of our information management program. Here,…