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Enterprise Data Governance
Before It Had a Name: How Master Data Ended Up at the Bottom of Every Governance Framework
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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Does Being Named the Foundation Get a Master Data Programme Funded?
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…
Read more →Profisee MDM
The Business Case, Priced in Days
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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The Case Was Already Assembled
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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