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Minding your P’s and Q’s (Process and Quality)


Yesterday, I was reviewing some new work by the Kalido team around our Data Governance product; the effort is focused on bringing to the forefront both data quality and process quality in order to improve business performance.  It’s impressive because for the first time I can see how my data quality directly impacts the steps [...]

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I just love Lora Cecere


I confess. I just love Lora Cecere. I’ve been her client; she’s been my boss, and I call her a trusted friend and advisor. We’ve enjoyed conversations and exchanged ideas in hallways, convention centers, airports, taxi cabs, hotel bars and many restaurants across the country and gabfests by phone. One of my absolute favorite Lora [...]

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Work Done by a Spring

Physics of Information Management: Work Done by a Spring


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Impact of Data Governance on Business Performance


Your KPI, my process, someone else’s data

I’ll be continuing the discussion started in my post Measuring data governance programs in which I highlighted four distinct categories of measurement that apply to data governance programs: level of policy compliance, level of data quality, impact on business performance, and performance of data governance processes. Driving the greatest return on the investment in data [...]

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Business predictability from an ant’s viewpoint


“Been days when it pleased me, To be on my knees… Following ants as they crawled across the ground.” –Willie Nelson As does Willie Nelson, I live in Texas. For all I know, fire ants might be our state insect. But I sort of hate them. From Houston to Dallas, San Antonio to El Paso [...]

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