People, Process, Politics

January 3, 2016

The Four Legs of a Successful Business Intelligence (BI) Project Team

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

ICC – Sponsorship, Investments & Organizations

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

Two Titanic Data Governance Mistakes

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

Getting Down To Business with People and Policies

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

People, Process & Politics: Pros & Cons of ICC Organizational Models

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

People, Process & Politics: Integration Competency Centers

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

People, Process & Politics: Integration Portfolio

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

People, Process & Politics: Business & Integration

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

People, Process & Politics: Stop the (Integration) Madness

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

People, Process and Politics – We All Hate Data Silos, So Why do They Happen?

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

People, Process & Politics: Data Governance

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

Implementing a Data Integration Center of Expertise

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

Do You Need a Data Integration Center of Expertise (DICE)?

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

Standards Let Us Play Nice Together

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 […]