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Have you wondered why CIOs do not become CEOs? What prevents them from achieving at the highest organisational levels? It’s because they don’t have their hands on revenue, unlike CMOs, CFOs, brand marketers, and sales directors. So all that remain in the realm of ICT are seen as purely administrative and like all administrative functions … Continue reading Key transformational steps of architecture away from ICT →
Cloud is becoming the new norm for enterprises. More and more companies across the globe are using a combination of two or more private, hosted, or public cloud services – applying different technology stacks to different business scenarios. Hybrid clo…
Cloud is becoming the new norm for enterprises. More and more companies across the globe are using a combination of two or more private, hosted, or public cloud services – applying different technology stacks to different business scenarios. Hybrid clo…
I tried to explain earlier how distinction brings forth meaning, and then value. Starting from distinction may seem arbitrary. Well, it is. And while it is, it is not. That wouldn’t be very difficult to show, but until then, let’s first t…
Ah definitions, definitions – so many to choose from! But somehow, only a limited number of labels to go around, to share out amongst all those definitions? Which means that people end up using the same labels for different things,…
By Phil Beauvoir Some of you might have noticed that Archi 3.3 has been released. This latest version of Archi includes a new plug-in which supports The Open Group ArchiMate Model Exchange File Format standard. This represents the fruits of … Continue reading →
Studies with significant results often do not appear to be superior to studies with a null result with respect to quality of design. However statistically significant results have been shown to be three times more likely to be published compared to papers with null results. This also applies to all studies on architecture in the … Continue reading Gathering useful information →
First there was Hadoop. Then there were data scientists. Then came Agile BI on big data. Drum roll, please . . . bum, bum, bum, bum . . .
Now we have data preparation!
If you are as passionate about data quality and governance and I am, then the 5+-year wait for a scalable capability to take on data trust is amazingly validating. The era for “good enough” when it comes to big data is giving way to an understanding that the way analysts have gotten away with “good enough” was through a significant amount of manual data wrangling. As an analyst, it must have felt like your parents saying you can’t see your friends and play outside until you cleaned your room (and if it’s anything like my kids’ rooms, that’s a tall order).
There is no denying that analysts are the first to benefit from data preparation tools such as Altyrex, Paxata, and Trifacta. It’s a matter of time to value for insight. What is still unrecognized in the broader data management and governance strategy is that these early forays are laying the foundation for data citizenry and the cultural shift toward a truly data-driven organization.
Today’s data reality is that consumers of data are like any other consumers; they want to shop for what they need. This data consumer journey begins by looking in their own spreadsheets, databases, and warehouses. When they can’t find what they want there, data consumers turn to external sources such as partners, third parties, and the Web. Their tool to define the value of data, and ultimately if they will procure it and possibly pay for it, is what data preparation tools help with. The other outcome of this data-shopping experience is that they are taking on the risk and accountability for the value of the data as it is introduced into analysis, decision-making, and automation.
Should we approach culture-change as if it’s the same as software-change? At a current conference, James Archer seemed to interpret Alex Osterwalder as saying just that: jamesarcher: Company culture can be methodically designed, built, and tested almost like a software product.…
It is time for another one in the “What’s wrong with this picture?” series. This time, I might maybe better have called it “What is not wrong with this picture?”. Here is the story. A company I know has started … Continue reading →
In a Service Based Enterprise, the organizational units would deliver services for which they are contractually bound to.
The enterprise would bother no more about the internal organization of the units or their inner governance as long as they do not …
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