by Andrew White | September 21, 2009 | 3 Comments
I spoke with an end user the other day that had a pretty forward looking strategy as it related to MDM, and specifically MDM of Product Data. When we talk about MDM of Product Data, there are assumptions that we all make – and these might be different. Is MDM of Product Data a sell-side [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Implementation MDM of Product Data MDM of Purhcased Part MDM of Supplier Data Operational MDM Procurement MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Category: Business Applications Business Drivers Business Intelligence Business to Business (B2B) Cost Optimization Data Migration ERP Implementation MDM Value from Information Tags: Business Drivers, MDM
by Andrew White | June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
This week I had the pleasure of spending time with two end user organizations that helped me draw out some important considerations. Company A was very much a large, global concern who’s product is very much information rich, selling to consumer (B2C) and commercial organizations (B2B). Company B was another large, global concern, who’s product [...]
Category: Business Case Business Drivers Business Intelligence Data Quality ERP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Governance Implementation MDM Operational MDM Tags: Business Case, Business Drivers, Data Quality, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Governance, MDM, Organization, Process
by Andrew White | February 17, 2009 | 6 Comments
In my ongoing efforts that are part of the update to the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM of Product Data, I took a vendor briefing last Thursday that got me thinking about the link between MDM (the technology), and MDM (the discipline). The vendor – whose name shall remain anonymous, shared their strategy with [...]
Category: Defining Master Data Implementation MDM Vendors Tags: Applications, MDM
by Andrew White | December 3, 2008 | Comments Off
So I was writing my “book of the month” summary (I post them in my email footer) and in October I finished Edith Penrose’s, “The Theory of the Growth of the Firm”, originally published in 1959 and updated in 1995. Despite being more of a text book, it was good fun to refresh my knowledge [...]
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Category: Implementation Organizational IQ Tags: Implementation, Organizational IQ
