Weaving Intelligence
2026-W34
Enterprise Data Strategy
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 →AI + BI
The Number Was Never Doing the Work: AI, BI, and the Limits of Better Evidence
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.
Read more →MDM + AI
Costing the Promise: The Parts of an AI-MDM Business Case You Can Actually Check
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
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…
Read more →General MDM
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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