Andrew WhiteThe highlight for me was the Gartner MDM Excellence Award, of course. On Tuesday Asian Paints, Johnson and Johnson Health Care Systems, and State Street bank presented their MDM journeys to the audience. These three speakers were the three “finalists” selected from among a group of users that had been submitted for the industry’s first Excellence Award. All three finalists shared impressive experiences with MDM. Asian Paints was focused on a MDM for Product oriented strategy; State Street a more MDM for Customer/Party/Counterparty strategy, and J&J HCS was focused on a broader multi-domain strategy, starting with customer and then moving onto product. It is a shame that only one of these three users could win, but that’s the rule.
The users that attended the summit were asked to vote for the speaker who’s MDM journey rated most highly when using Gartner’s seven building blocks for MDM as a framework: Vision, Strategy, Process, Metrics, Governance, Organization, and Technology. At the close of the event we announced the winner – Johnson and Johnson Healthcare Systems.
Attendees commented on how J&J had effectively taken an enterprise wide view of MDM, and how the business had clearly been involved and led much of the effort. Governance, business case justification, and IT alignment with business were cited as valuable reason’s why attendees had given the nod to J&J.
Charles Bloodworth was gracious enough to join us on stage to receive the award, and hopefully he can take it back to his office and show off the award to the entire hard working team at J&J. Very many congratulations to Charles and the team – they deserve it!
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Category: Business Case Governance MDM Summit Tags: Business Case, Governance, MDM Summit
