Big Data is clearly the buzzword du jour in the information management space right now. I read a great article by Jim Ericson a few days ago where he talked about the hype around big data and how vendors, consultants and analysts have glommed on to (my word) the term and its pervasiveness in all [...]
In a recent blog post, a Forrester analyst suggested that organizations should create a combined program for “information governance” that would cover governing both data and content. The premise is that there should be enough common ground and similarities in the two governance programs such that organizations can create “an information governance framework that will [...]
I recently read a great blog by Aaron Zornes, “Go Governance, Go Early”, in which Aaron called out the need for the discipline of a Master Data Governance to coincide with the deployment of an MDM solution. I couldn’t agree more! Data Stewards are not the only people in your organization affected by master data, so why [...]
Recently, I wrote about treating a data process as the business process that it truly is. The premise was that we must look at data management processes in a more structured way. By spotting repeatable patterns and looking for opportunities to automate some of the mechanical aspects of the process, we can create opportunities to [...]
Businesses have long sought to optimize core business processes to ensure maximum business performance. IT departments have supported the cause by building systems to automate many of the mechanical aspects of these processes ensuring repeatable, efficient execution of operations. These same IT departments, however, have continued to use traditional labor-intensive methods of building many of [...]
