People, Process, Politics
- All
- Analytics
- Architecture
- BI Guidebook
- BI Industry Analysis
- BI Myths, Trends & Hype
- BI/DW Index
- BI/DW on a Shoestring
- Big Data
- Business & IT Issues
- Business Intelligence
- Cloud Computing
- Courses and Training
- CPM
- Data Governance
- Data Integration
- Data Mining
- Data Modeling
- Data Preparation
- Data Quality
- Data Shadow Systems
- Data Warehousing
- DW/BI Events
- Enterprise Data Mgmt
- ERP
- ETL
- Industry Research
- Master Data Management
- Modernization
- On-Demand Index
- People, Process, Politics
- Published Articles
- Self-Service BI
January 3, 2016
A successful BI project team is like a four-legged table – each leg holds up its share of the weight. Remove one and the project wobbles. […]
June 8, 2011
Some of my recent posts have discussed how people, politics and projects have established integration silos throughout an enterprise that are costly, inefficient and inhibit the […]
May 25, 2011
In the post Getting Down To Business with People and Policies. I discussed the fact that people and policies need to be on the front burner […]
May 18, 2011
In the last several posts we discussed how people, policies and products are essential to successful Master Data Management (MDM) and Customer Data Integration (CDI) programs. […]
August 25, 2009
As we discussed in my last People, Process & Politics post, the four organizational models most often used to implement ICCs are: common practices, technology standards, […]
July 31, 2009
In our “People, Process & Politics” series we have discussed how non-technical aspects of business intelligence, data integration or data warehousing projects are the critical components of […]
July 14, 2009
In our previous post “People, Process & Politics: Business & Integration” we discussed how to create the business and IT case gather sponsorship and enlist funding […]
June 24, 2009
In our previous post People, Process & Politics: Stop the (Integration) Madness we discussed how we have promoted integration silos by fragmenting those efforts across organizations, […]
June 18, 2009
In previous post “People, Process and Politics – We All Hate Data Silos, So Why do They Happen?” we discussed why we have set ourselves up […]
May 29, 2009
Why are data silos so prevalent when we really ought to know better? We know that it’s risky to have inconsistent data. We strive for the […]
May 8, 2009
For those of us in high tech, it’s easy to fall into the trap of concentrating too hard on the products, technology and architectural aspects of […]
September 12, 2004
In my earlier column “Do You Need a Data Integration Center of Expertise?,” I discussed these key points: You need to integrate data, not just create another version of […]
July 13, 2004
Reining in the proliferation of expensive, redundant data silos requires a methodical approach that includes establishing a data integration center of expertise. In their quest for […]
February 13, 2004
Remember the Betamax? How about eight-track tapes? If you remember either of these tape formats, you understand the importance of standards. Adhere to the wrong ones […]