Entries Categorized as 'Information Governance'
by Andrew White | June 11, 2013 | 3 Comments
I had a packed call of customer phone calls today. It was, as usual, exhilarating. It happens every time – when you cram in a lot of customer interactions into a short time frame, it generates both patterns, and lots of ideas. It’s what makes being an analyst fun. The pattern that emerged today I [...]
Category: Information Architecture Information Governance Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Information Management Information Policy Information Trust Master Data Lifecycle Master Data Management Tags:
by Andrew White | June 10, 2013 | 3 Comments
Like red rag to a bull, I received an email today from SearchDataManagement with the title, “data stewardship”. How could I but click on that email, and pronto? The link took me to the SearchDataManagement definition page for data stewardship. I tend to like their definition, and how it differs and relates to data governance. [...]
Category: Data Stewardship Information Governance Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Information Policy Tags:
by Andrew White | May 23, 2013 | Comments Off
An end-user posed a question recently as follows: How does one manage the integrity of master data changes across different environments – e.g. development, testing and production? This user has a home-grown master data mapping (as opposed to full MDM) service, and as its footprint has driven their home-grown maintenance framework (based on database synchronization scripts [...]
Category: Information Governance Information Policy Master Data Master Data Lifecycle Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | May 21, 2013 | Comments Off
In the print edition (May 11-17th, 2013) of the Economis, the Buttonwood article, “Age shall weary them” (page 78), queried a major question for many of us – where will prodctivity come from given that the West’s working population is getting old (and probably, all other things being equal, less prodictive). The article draws on [...]
Category: Information Governance Intelligent Item Numbers Intelligent Numbering Scheme Productivity Tags:
by Andrew White | May 10, 2013 | Comments Off
Its Friday, its 5 o’clock, so its must be “Crackerjack”! Well, ignoring the very British TV series from the 70′s, I was packing my laptop away for the day when this email popped into my inbox, from Techtarget, with one phrase listed: “data stewardship”. Well, that is red rag to this bull. I instantly stopped [...]
Category: Information Governance Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Information Policy Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | May 2, 2013 | 1 Comment
Print edition, Wall Street Journal, May 2nd 2013: Poor Prognosis for Privacy. Fascinating article that can be summed up with one quote: “ “The reality is, our ability to exchange electronic information is already well beyond our ability to control it,” says John Leipold, CEO of Valley Hope Technology in Norton, Kan., which makes electronic [...]
Category: EHR Governance Healthcare Information Governance Tags:
by Andrew White | April 17, 2013 | 4 Comments
We must be half pregnant with MDM! I see an increase in the number of inquiries with end user organizations that are making some pretty simple mistakes. But upon reflection, these mistakes are mostly due to ignorance and immaturity of the IT market. And some are due to vendors’ positions being out of line with [...]
Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Information Governance Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | April 15, 2013 | Comments Off
I spotted an interesting article in the weekend print edition of the Wall Street Journal Saturday. It was titled, “Google Lets Users Plan Their Digital Afterlife”. The article explains how Google is providing its users methods to transfer their data over to “loved ones” after they have passed away. The data has to be copied; [...]
Category: Infonomics Information as an Asset Information Trust Tags:
by Andrew White | April 3, 2013 | Comments Off
For the last couple of days I had the pleasure of sitting down with numerous attendees at our North American BPM summit here in Maryland, DC. Even though the weather and the cherry tree blossom was wooing us away, we stayed in the hotel to talk about ‘data’ and ‘process’ and – predictably – which [...]
Category: Business and IT Business Applications Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rules Data Governance Data Quality Data Stewardship Information Governance Master Data Management Tags:
by Andrew White | March 29, 2013 | 2 Comments
I happened to travel the following week of our event so was not able to get this blog out earlier. Sorry about that. Hope the feedback is of interest. It was great seeing so many folks attend our North American MDM Summit. It was a really busy week – and I left Friday afternoon with [...]
Category: Information Governance Master Data Management MDM-Summit-NA Tags: MDM-Summit-NA
