A few months ago, I talked about data governance with a data architect at a large retailer. He had built the rough outline of what’s in Kalido Data Governance Director — in Excel! Needless to say our views are pretty much aligned. When I asked him how he intended to roll out his Excel framework, [...]
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. – Benjamin Disraeli By way of introduction, I should probably tell you that plowing through information gets me sort of excited. My wife will tell you that this is not normal. Maybe it’s a mutated gene that all [...]
Assessing the impact of any program or initiative requires measurement of outcomes to determine progress toward objectives. While this may be a blinding glimpse of the obvious, we have to ask ourselves “what is the desired outcome that we want to achieve” before we can decide what to measure and how to measure it. This [...]
In 1787, there was such a thing called “The United States of America”, but it didn’t have a lot of power. The real power was held by the 13 former colonies, or states, each of which is a sovereign nation with its own laws, currency, and taxes. The United States of America was formed 6 [...]
Several years ago, I spent a wonderful week in São Paulo to help a customer answer a simple question: three data warehouses, or one? Here’s the background. For many years, the Latin America region of a very big consumer packaged goods company operated as a loose collection of about 30 independent companies spread in 20 countries. [...]
