A Bifocal Strategy for Data Quality
This article details a bifocal data quality strategy (short-term and long-term) to ensure that projects achieve their business objectives.
ROI – Paying for the CMDB Metadata Knowledgebase
This article explores the business justification for building the CMDB. ITIL process improvement projects are generating real (ROI) for adopting…
Seven Critical Questions to Ensure Master Data Governance Success
This article suggests seven critical questions that should be considered in order to help lay the foundation for a sound…
Unwired Tap – July 2008
Our old friend convergence, who we have written about many times in previous columns, is a consistent hue on the…
Architecture is Objective, Design is Subjective – August 2008
Producing definitions for the terms used in an IT architecture is an essential activity. This article explores why the "definition…
Business Rules: In the Know – August 2008
This article asks what good does it do to spend big bucks on improving the quality, timeliness and analysis of…
Grounding Your IQ Management in Sound Quality Management Systems
Larry English describes the fundamental principles of proven quality systems and provides a check list of the essential ingredients of…
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Part 9
Operational Data Stewards play an important role in the implementation of a "Non-Invasive Data Governance"ª program.
Data Lineage: The Next Generation
Bill Lewis describes the benefits of an application development environment in which all data dependencies begin and remain clearly, precisely…
The 10-Minute Data Model Review, Part 2
Data modeling is based on the precept of knowing your data and knowing how the data is interrelated with other…