Your Information Supply Chain
Viewing data as an asset implies there are benefits to taking a supply chain approach to data management.
Why Latin American Order-to-Cash Operations Are Ripe for Shared Services
Latin America is an emerging market for BPO & Shared Services; as a result, we expect the Order-to-Cash process to come under greater scrutiny in the immediate future.
Big Silos: The Dark Side of Big Data
The bigness of your data is likely not its most important characteristic. In fact, it probably doesn’t even rank among the Top 3 most important
DQ-BE: How to Get Sesame Street’s Description Wrong
This example of poor data quality was tweeted by @_youhadonejob and thankfully re-tweeted by @daraghobrien using the #dataquality and #iqtrainwreck hashtags. Sesame Street is a children’s television series that celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2009 and is known for its educational content communicated through the use of Jim Henson’s Muppets, animation, short…
Data Quality in 6 Verbs
Once upon a time when asked on Twitter to identify a list of critical topics for data quality practitioners, my pithy (with only 140 characters in a tweet, pithy is as good as it gets) response was, and especially since I prefer emphasizing the need to take action, to propose six critical verbs: Investigate, Communicate, Collaborate, Remediate, Inebriate, andReiterate.
Lest my pith be misunderstood aplenty, this blog post provides more detail, plus links to related posts, about what I meant.
Is Poor Quality the Anti-Hero of Data?
As a kid, I enjoyed reading comic books and watching animated television series about superheroes. Among my favorites were Spider-Man, Batman, Thor, Iron Man, and the X-Men. Which is why, as a adult, I enjoy the super advancements in cinematic technology that not only powers (mostly) live-action superhero movies, but has also propelled them into mainstream culture.
The Data-Driven Factory, and Economy, of the Future
The promise of digital manufacturing is drawing closer to fulfillment as many of its separate components simultaneously evolve and mature. It’s not just about CAD/CAM or PLM any longer but now includes innovations in 3D printing, robotics, M2M sensor data and 3D simulation.
Rocking Data Quality: Imagining the Future of Data Quality
Rockin’ data quality.Imagine there’s no defects
It’s easy if you try
No data cleansing beneath us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the data
Living with quality
Rocking Data Quality. Bringing Sexy Back.
Rockin’ data quality.
Dirty data – you see the problems everywhere
Let me be your data cleanser, and baby, I’ll be there
We’ll whip the Business Process if it misbehaves
But just remember – trying to be perfect – it’s not the way
Rocking Data Quality: Data Rock Stars…The Rolling Forecasts
Rockin’ data quality.I saw her looking for business direction
A document of requirements in her hand
I knew she would find a database connection
And search for the business value they demand
No, you can’t always get the data you want
You can’t always get the data you want
You can’t always get the data you want
But if you try sometimes, you might find
You get the insight you need