Weaving Intelligence
General MDM
"MDM is a business program, not an IT project" is half right in both directions: a capital project builds the superstructure an operating program runs on, and the label sets the two budgets fighting over it. One question decides when the project has to reopen: does the change need new…
Read more →Enterprise Data Strategy
An enterprise data strategy does not spread from where it is written; it is taken up, one decision maker and one business unit at a time, through standards each unit can see the point of. And the data it is aligning loses value from the day it is collected, so the work belongs on the data the…
Read more →AI + BI
From a moon-rock database in 1971 to Power BI's Q&A, retiring in 2027, every attempt to let people ask business data a question in English needed the business's words supplied first. The interfaces were retired, or are being retired, one after another; whether that vocabulary survived depended on…
Read more →MDM + AI
Machines have matched, classified and curated master data since 1959. Each generation made its job cheaper and handed a new layer of work to a person, and the language-model generation is doing the same.
Read more →Profisee MDM
Profisee publishes its implementation timelines, and they are honest numbers about the part of the work that is the same in every organisation. Read as an implementer, the plan has three dates and only the first two usually reach the deck: the first quarter close, where finance adds up the cost of…
Read more →General MDM
Data is being written into the national accounts and, in China, onto company balance sheets, and vendors now put revenue into their ROI studies. Every one of those measures that can be defended values master data at cost, and the ones that reach past cost describe somebody else's company, so the…
Read more →Enterprise Data Governance
Strong master data control is not a level of completeness. It is a stated distance from perfect for each domain, a name beside every exception, and someone senior enough to hold the line.
Read more →Deep Dive Investigations
Every business case that reaches a funding committee answers the same five questions, in an order the committee inherited and the case-writer did not choose. This Deep Dive answers them in that order — strategic, economic, commercial, financial, management — from five pieces this publication has…
Read more →AI + BI
A field experiment with 758 consultants handed one of its arms a spreadsheet built to look complete and interview notes that held the details, and on that task the groups with GPT-4 were 19 percentage points less likely to be right and more persuasive either way. Beside it, a practitioner's record…
Read more →MDM + AI
The money behind master data is up, and AI is why. That is the problem: the money arrives funded to the depth one initiative needs, and the rest of the roadmap is never built.
Read more →Profisee MDM
A customer 360 fails at one of two ends: a record that keeps every source's copy of the customer's name, or one that allows a customer exactly one address. Neither failure is in the software. Aligning a Profisee implementation with a customer 360, and with the transformation that pays for it, is…
Read more →General MDM
Master data is named in the business case of every large modernization and rarely in the post-mortem. This piece rehearses a master data program's post-mortem forward from the day its funding is signed, month by month, with the clock running, and then sets it beside a program whose clock has…
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