by Andrew White | August 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Following on from my previous blog, I saw an article this morning that aligned nicely with it. Joe McKendrick posted, “Master Data Isn’t Available at the Turn of a Switch” on Information Management, and the title drew me to it. Too many users assume that “implementing ERP” provides for “single version of the truth”. The [...]
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Category: ERP MDM Tags: ERP, Master Data, MDM
by Andrew White | August 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
I have started up my travels for the fall season already! IT seems that summer is almost over; the kids are back at school and the average temperatures are home are dropping. I have been walking my dog at 6am in 90 degrees (the cool part of the day) but the last couple of mornings [...]
Category: Application Architecture Applications ERP MDM Tags: Application Specific Data, ERP, MDM
by Andrew White | August 23, 2010 | Comments Off
I saw an interesting article in today’s print edition of the FT. The headline was, “Why the nee GM is just a hedge fund in disguise”. The author, Tony Jackson, highlights how the recent talk of an IPO drew out estimates of a valuation for GM of about $60bn. However, GM’s pension fund, the largest [...]
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Category: Economy Tags: Auto Industry, Economy
by Andrew White | August 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Gartner introduced the idea of Pattern Based Strategy™ last year which represents a connection between three separate big ideas: pattern analysis, optempo, and performance driven culture. Pattern analysis alone is fine – but without execution and tuning, it is nothing. Optempo provides the mechanism to “make business value accrue from patterns” by aligning the whole [...]
Category: Analytics Tags: Analytics, KPI, Pattern-Based Strategy
by Andrew White | August 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
It’s a busy time for me. I just ended a long stint of travel (one or two cities per week since February) that took in a few conferences, but mainly client calls and visits. One of the perks of the job is you get to meet a lot of end user organizations and I just [...]
Category: Research Agenda Tags: Research Agenda
by Andrew White | August 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
I went to the movies with a friend of mine to see “Inception” the other night. It is a great movie, if you are interested in sci-fi and like to keep your mind racing along with the writer and director, trying to figure out what on earth is happening in a good story. At dinner, [...]
