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Archives for September, 2011


Oops – UK Government pulls plug on ailing £11bn NHS IT programme

by Andrew White  |  September 22, 2011  |  1 Comment

This program was meant to have provided for a “fully integrated electronic care records system across the NHS”.  As reported today in ComputerWeekly.com, it seems this was just too hard to do.  The decision was to cancel the national program and encourage each regional GP’s to choose their own IT systems.  Ouch.  So one central [...]

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Master Data Management – Have We Left the Station yet?

by Andrew White  |  September 15, 2011  |  2 Comments

I just spent a day with an end user organization trying to get its information governance program launched using Master Data Management as the vehicle.  Despite the opportunity, despite the conditions that seem favorable for MDM, and despite the multi-stakeholder willingness to participate, getting MDM off the ground is hard work.  And like with most [...]

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Category: Business Case Governance Heiler Kalido MDM     Tags:

There are no short cuts to “single version of the truth”. It’s gonna hurt!

by Andrew White  |  September 9, 2011  |  Comments Off

I had one of those inquiries with a user last week that you hate to have.  The call started off well enough.  The client described a business scenario that is all too common: global company, independent business units, heterogeneous environment, some ERP program, lots of CRM, a new shiny BI plan, yet realization that underpinning [...]

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Category: Change Management Governance MDM     Tags: , ,

Recent FT/Economist articles of Interest (personal views follow – beware)

by Andrew White  |  September 9, 2011  |  Comments Off

A few articles I spotted over the last couple of weeks caught my attention.  Here are the more notable. Economics: Rituals of Rigour. After mistaken claims made ahead of the global crisis won much academic support, long-held assumptions were called into question – but the real world often remains overlooked or ignored. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/faba8834-cf09-11e0-86c5-00144feabdc0.html Financial Times, [...]

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Category: Economy Personal Political     Tags: