Andrew White

Today is a very sad day for football.  Sir Bobby Robson, one of the most respected men in the world of soccer, passed away today.  No one seems to be more respected.  He had am amazing career – taking England closer to the World Cup than anyone else since the famous 1966 win over Germany.
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Mark Raskino and Jackie Fenn (hear Jackie speak about her new book, Mastering the Hype Cycle: How to Choose the Right Innovation at the Right Time, co-authored with Mark, on YouTube) just published a real interesting note that provides an update on how to look at, use, and interpret the Gartner Hype Cycle.  The note [...]

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The Economist did it again for me last weekend.  My Economist (print edition, July 18-24) arrives Monday afternoon, but if I am lucky, it arrives with the Saturday mail.  It this last weekend so that means I get the pleasure of a quite read without any pressure to check emailJ.  Two articles looked at the [...]

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MDM certainly has its fair share of hype – so of course we updated our Hype Cycle for Master Data Management, 2009.  Always worth a conversation, and as much a conversation piece is the position of the “dots” let alone, how they are defined and grouped.  But I am sure you would enjoy this anyway.  
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I read an interesting article today, on information-management.com, by Marty Mosely, called, “Multidomain Master Data Management for Business Scenario”.  I found the article reasonable, but for a few oddities.  Apparently, “license” (or perhaps order, or contract) might be classified by Marty as master data.  I thought that odd – since for most of us, that [...]

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Watching CNBC’s coverage of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s grilling of Hank Paulson, and I mean grilling – they are rude, abusive and down right stupid.  Democrats (mostly) are grilling Paulson, the then head of the treasury, on his role in “saving the world” or more precisely, the global financial systems.  What a fiasco [...]

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Saw an article in this mornings US print edition of the Financial Times, “Manufacturing outlook grim, says SKF chief”.  What I though interesting was that the CEO, Tom Johnstone, reported its latest quarterly earnings (to June).  I didn’t find the headline interesting, it was something in the details that were shared that was.  Johnstone reported [...]

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A tad late, I know (it is July) but I am just catching up with noting the books I am reading/have read.  So this is the “Book of the Mont” for May: When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the age of global economic change, Mohamed El-Erian, 2008, McGraw Hill.  I follow El-Erian on CNBC as he is [...]

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I just published an updated Magic Quadrant (for 2009) for Master Data Management of Product Data.  The update is quite interesting.  Despite the name we don’t really cast any spells and call on the gods to create the ratings; there is a lot more science in the analysis behind the scenes.  And the analysis this [...]

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Why is there no simple, automated, or formalized, blue print for getting MDM going?
I was talking with a sales person today who wanted help to initiate a dialog with a client that we knew had an MDM “issue”.  We explored several ways we could help the client with respect to MDM, and as a result of the conversation, [...]

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