Right First Time Finally, more and more commentators and practitioners in the data quality world are beginning to realise that the essential key to quality data is to ensure that all data is correct at the time it is created. Getting data right first time is obviously a far better approach than allowing erroneous data [...]
Beware! Killer OYsTeRs Devour Projects!
At this very moment in nearly every enterprise around the world the integrity of Business Improvement Projects is being devoured by Killer OYsTeRs. These are not the scrumptious little shellfish that so many people enjoy eating for both their taste and aphrodisiac properties. Rather, they are insidious growths that develop in enterprises between people involved in [...]
Can Pooping on Your Own Doorstep Improve Data Quality?
Quality Begins There are two things that have to happen in an enterprise if Quality is to exist there. The first is that the management and staff come to know and appreciate what Quality is, the second is that they are committed to bringing it about in their enterprise. Traditionally, what happens after Quality has [...]
Essential Business Modelling Definitions
A recent post I made called “How ‘As-Is’ BAs Deliver ‘Has-Been’ Enterprises” has resulted in a lot of discussion both on this blog and in Linkedin. One of the major things to emerge from all of this discussion is the confusion that exists regarding clear definitions for the fundamental elements of Business Analysis and Modelling. [...]
How ‘As-Is’ BAs Deliver ‘Has-Been’ Enterprises
Spread across the world, there is an army of BAs that are daily sending enterprises backwards in time and building ever higher walls between them and the future. Are these BAs dedicated industrial saboteurs? Far from it! Most are actually conscientious, hard working and well meaning. So, how can they be doing so much damage? [...]
The Business Function Model: Powering the Enterprise
The Business Function Model is the single most powerful business model that an enterprise can have, for this reason it is an essential tool for every Business Analyst and ought be at the core of every Enterprise Architecture. If you’re sceptical about this claim, have a look at the key benefits of the Function Model listed [...]
Seven Fatal Errors in MDM and How to Avoid Them
[This post was originally written as an article for Hub Designs Magazine in November 2012.] Errors that Kill MDM The business practice referred to as “Master Data Management” or “MDM” is plagued with Seven Fatal Errors that prevent enterprises from achieving success, no matter how much money or effort is thrown at the problem. What are [...]
EA: Enterprise Architecture or Egomaniacs Anonymous?
I used to think that ‘EA’ stood for Enterprise Architect. However, having been drowned in the torrent of hot air and hyperbole that flows from EA forums (or should that be fora?) on LinkedIn, I now suspect that ‘EA’ might stand for ‘Egomaniacs Anonymous’. Engagement Is Good, Right? Is it not good to see people [...]
Multi-Dimensional MDM Online Course – Now Enrolling.
Module 2 of Multi-Dimensional MDM online course from the IMM Academy is now live. This module covers the most widely misunderstood of all of the Master Entities. Which one is that? Rumpelstiltskin!! It’s a bit like Rumpelstiltskin in the fairy tale. Some call it Customer, some Supplier, some Employee, some Guarantor, and so on, ad infinitum [...]
Data Quality: Fatally Flawed
Data Quality is a Fatally Flawed Approach The trouble with Data Quality is that it is all about data – and this is a fatal flaw!! Managing data in any enterprise as a standalone element with an imagined intrinsic value is a fundamentally flawed approach that brings no sustainable benefits of any kind. Double Whammy [...]
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