The business practice referred to as Master Data Management (MDM) is plagued with Seven Fatal Errors that prevent enterprises from achieving any real success in this area, no matter how much effort or money is thrown at the problem. What are these Fatal Errors? Calling it MDM! Looking in existing data for Master Entities. Using [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Multi-Dimensional MDM – So Powerful – So Easy!
2D MDM Current thinking and practices on Master Data Management (MDM) could, at best, be said to be two-dimensional. This might not sound too bad, until you realise that one of the dimensions is ‘Customer’ and the other is ‘Supplier’ neither of which is actually a Master Data Entity!! Is this why current MDM thinking [...]
MDM Without Customer! Is That Possible?
There’s No Such Thing as Customer! One of the great paradoxes with the current thinking on Master Data Management (MDM), where so much effort is put into building a ‘single customer view’, is that Customer is NOT actually a Master Data Entity! Come to think of it, neither is Supplier! How can this be? This [...]
Address Universal Modelling Tool
Address Modelling Magic The different structures of addresses in different countries and different languages can seem to be an insurmountable obstacle when trying to bring consistency of address structures for the purposes of Data Quality and Master Data Management. Without the right tool it is insurmountable. However, with the right tool is becomes relatively simple. [...]
Processes Do NOT Create Data!
I was recently asked to provide guidance on mapping how data is shared across different stages of Business Processes in order to achieve the greatest reuse possible. This was my answer. One of the most important things to emphasise when looking at data usage across an enterprise is that Business Processes do NOT create, transform [...]
MDM Webinars & Online Training
I am putting together a series of webinars and online training courses in Master Data Management (MDM) and I would value your input. The first series will be centered around the major of Product. This will include looking at and defining the major Product Categories, which are: MDM Internal Product Manufactured Product This product is [...]
Data Structure Modeling
Effective Data Quality and MDM start with the Corporate Logical Data Model (LDM).
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John Owens Hi Lew The answer is a very definite 'Yes�
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Lew Hi John, Good information. Do your ought to be
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Robert Suzic How do you see on business rules originating from
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Multi-Dimensional MEM (MDM) Online Course 
Online Mentoring 
Information Flow Modelling eBook 
Business Process Modelling eBook 
Data Structure Modelling eBook 
