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Enterprise Data Governance
Master data sits near the floor of every current governance framework, described as foundational, and no council ever voted it there. Catherine D. files a proposal: that a framework naming master data as a foundational domain must also name the seat that signs each enterprise definition inside it.…
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Everyone asks what master data has to become once agents arrive, braced for a list. Jordan M. put the question to his co-author and got two words back: ideally, nothing. What actually changes is the bill, a capital project turned into a metered tap, and the packaging, which costs more than anyone…
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For most of two centuries a mushroom was filed as a plant, and the quarrel that finally moved it was never about the specimen: it was about which question the label answered. Maya R. reads the differentiator-or-cost-centre argument the same way. Both labels sort AI-enhanced master data management…
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You do not win an executive sponsor in flight. You start with one, or you do without until you are in production and bidding phase two from a system that already works. Isabel B. builds that conclusion out as a sequence: part one of a Profisee implementation that contains no configuration at all,…
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Executive sponsorship is a standing agreement that one senior person will spend their own capital when spending it costs them something. Elias K. takes the role apart section by section: the two objects that sign the same page and how two meetings tell them apart, what the role carries (budgeting…
Read more →Enterprise Data Strategy
The enterprise data strategy document is a genuinely new artifact, and most writing about it narrates the same tidy maturity curve — five stages, a rising arrow, an organisation moving deliberately from siloed to strategic. Marcus B. argues that almost nobody walked that arrow. The functions…
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Jordan M. has spent about a decade saying that a number never changed anybody's mind. This is the essay where he goes looking for the place that claim fails — and finds it three times, in sources he had not read carefully enough, none of them hostile.
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Almost everyone costing an AI-augmented master data management program right now is costing something they have not yet run — and Maya R. starts there rather than hiding it. Her playbook builds the case out of the two things you can actually check before you spend: the mechanism and the price.…
Read more →Profisee MDM
Almost every MDM business case ever written was reverse-engineered from a demo — and a demo is honest about what it is. It shows you the capability of the product; the fit between that capability and your business is the part somebody still has to build. Isabel B. looks back at how we justified an…
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In Weaving Intelligence's Monday piece opening the week, Elias K. traces two decades of the enterprise master data management business case — how the argument shifted from Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, to hard-dollar data-quality ROI, to business-outcome capability, and now to "AI-ready data." His…
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