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Both and Neither: What the Master Data Project Builds, and When It Reopens
"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…
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An Asset Is Not a Return: Where Measuring Master Data's Value Is Actually Heading
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…
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Approval Is Not the Decision
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…
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On the Funding List, Off the Post-Mortem: What a Master Data Program Can Be Held To
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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One Sponsor Is a Single Point of Failure: Sustaining Executive Support for an MDM Program
Executive sponsorship as a structure you can inspect this week: which budget line the money came from, where the sponsor's authority ends, and why a coalition of sponsors turns an absent sponsor into a changed one. Each section stands on its own, with the operating record from practice underneath.
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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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