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In previous posts, I have identified four types of contextual elements. Management: Understanding the Management Context Structural: Understanding Structural Context Cultural: Got Culture? Personal: Personal Context: The ME Factor In my 30 years of managing and consulting, I have seen some really bright, talented, driven people fail, some quite spectacularly, by ignoring or misreading their […]
There are different ways for applications to talk to one another. These can include: File Transfer Web Services Shared Data Messaging All have their strengths and weaknesses but for now let’s focus on the advantages of messaging. What is messaging? Messaging is a technology that enables asynchronous communication of messages between systems and also includes […]
In 2013 we saw the rise, and in some cases the rebirth of analytics and were told of the importance of using data to get closer to our customers. The growth of social media and the birth of the omni channel has meant that understanding your channels and the related data is going to be Read More
It is absolutely essential, when either building a business from scratch or extending one that already exists, that a specific set of objectives be established. Supporting and aligning to a business vision and mission statement concrete goals and objectives strongly … Continue reading →
Originally posted on Liliendahl on Data Quality:
All airports have a tree letter code usually being a mnemonic of the city name or airport name. The airport at Saint Petersburg in Russia thus has the code LED because the code was assigned when the city was called LEningraD. That’s how it is with master data:…
One thousand blog-posts. That’s quite a milestone, really. Not quite there yet: this one’s number nine hundred and ninety-nine, to be precise. Though out of those so far, there were the hundred or so in the Twitter-extracts series – ‘A week in Tweets’…
Is money the only possible form of profit? And if not, what does that imply for design of business-models? – and, beyond that, to economics itself? This is one that I’ve been struggling with, both personally and professionally, for a…
Anyone working with data would be familiar with the CRUD acronym – Create, Read, Update, Delete – that describe ‘atomic’-level actions on data. But how well does it work with other asset-types – not just data and other virtual items,…
TOGAF uses a very specific language to describe the outputs that architects produce. This poster highlights the key things you need to know. Download this free poster from Good e-Learning now!
What is a strategy? How do we create a strategy? – rather than merely a delusion of ‘strategy’? Several of the folks in my Twitterstream – Gerold Kathan and Shawn Callahan, amongst others – pointed recently to a great HBR…
I am taking the opportunity to share one of my favorite book dealing with leadership and our human kind… written by my dear friend Jennifer Sertl and Koby Huberman. Strategy, Leadership and the Soul – Jennifer Sertl and Koby Huberman Have a quick glance to the following appetizer: Strategy, Leadership and the Soul presents a new paradigm for organizations. Jennifer […]
While I am preparing to publish my next article on Information Management and taking the opportunity of a email discussion with Jean Evelette – the author of the very interesting website MARS – Metadata And Repository System – I realized that a clarification regarding information ownership was needed. Here is the famous question: Who is owning the information? I […]