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Research Round Up: Master Data Management

by Andrew White  |  July 18, 2011  |  Comments Off

My colleague, Bill O’Kane, has just published his first piece of research!  Bill joined us a few months ago and becomes the newest member of our team focused on Master Data Management.  He has hit the ground running with, “Evaluation Criteria for MDM Vendor Data Model Styles”.  Bill had recent experience with implementing MDM technologies [...]

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Exhilarating week with customers – and more clarity on what MDM is all about

by Andrew White  |  July 15, 2011  |  Comments Off

I spent 3 long days with back to back calls with users in and around Minneapolis.  I knew it would be a busy week but I had no idea how it would develop.  I sat on the plane coming home last night, and it was one of those surreal flights you experience from time to [...]

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Interesting Reading – Societe Generale research: A New World Order – When Demand Overakes Supply

by Andrew White  |  July 7, 2011  |  2 Comments

Not sure that the headline title is all that unique (we have talked about demand outstripping supply in many parts of our global economy for years) but some interesting trend data nonetheless, on demographics and so on: http://www.scribd.com/doc/59489177/When-Demand-Outstrips-Supply-Copy.  Well worth the read.  Especially given my last book review – focused on long term cycles that [...]

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Book of the Month (Mar): SuperCycles: The New Economic Force Transforming Global Markets and Investment Strategies

by Andrew White  |  July 1, 2011  |  Comments Off

Book of the Month (Mar): SuperCycles: The New Economic Force Transforming Global Markets and Investment Strategies, by Arun Motianey, McGraw Hill, 2010.  I simply had to read this book: it had been covered on CNBC and anything popular that touches changes to macro economic theory had to be a good read!  I was not mistaken.  [...]

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