Political Economies and Data Decisions
Gwen Thomas reminds us that the ability to deliver an actionable strategy or plan will be influenced by politics, whether…
Data Articles
Information Management: A Key for Creating Business Value
An enterprise information management strategy should offer comprehensive set of functions such as data quality, data governance and also a…
Non-Invasive Data Governance Explained
A lot of people ask Bob Seiner, "How can we possibly implement a Data Governance Program in a Non-Invasive way?Ó.…
Architecture Made Easy, Part 8
The authors provide a new perspective to help better understand the mind-sets and principles that operate within profit centers and…
Reference Data Management
The objective of this paper is to present the Whitemarsh approach to managing a very critical set of enterprise data:…
Software Product Selection: Improved Methods, Improved Results
Even when all the participants agree at the outset to pursue the best solution for the organization as a whole,…
Controlling Hierarchical Structure Processing From SQL
This article presents some of the more powerful and advanced hierarchical processing operations and capabilities possible with ANSI SQL hierarchical…
The “Non-Invasive Data Governance”™ Operating Model
Bob Seiner uses the term ÒOperating ModelÓ because the roles & responsibilities of a ÒNon-Invasive Data GovernanceÓª program play such…
The Power of a Common Business Language
This article explains how companies create and standardize their common business language Ð terms, definitions, and related metrics Ð to…
Lean IT Value Streams: An Entity Lifecycle Approach
This article describes a framework for both managing and understanding IT value and its underpinnings, incorporating principles from Lean, the…