In the mid-1800s, the stench emanating from River Thames was so foul that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert cancelled a boat trip within minutes of taking to the water. Londoners …
Data Lake Librarians
Enterprises need to become more lean and efficient to stay in business. As a result, Enterprise Data Management is gaining more attention. In my position, I promote treating data as …
Creating Synergies Between Business Analysts And Project Managers
At first glance it may seem that project managers and business analysts have conflicting objectives with one focused on project delivery and the other on solution delivery. But by unlocking …
The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
Taxonomies are everywhere in Information Management, but are hardly ever formally acknowledged and managed. Most code tables (lookup tables) contain taxonomies – perhaps even the overwhelming majority. Yet we seem …
Champion Diversity, Inclusivity and Change Across Your Organisation Through Establishing a Change Network
Working as a Change Management specialist one thing I encourage every organisation to do is to create an internal ‘Change Network’ as part of their change strategy. Why does this …
Story Telling For BAs
I am a big advocate of storytelling as a way of getting your message across and whilst this is a method usually associated with speeches and presentations I believe it …
Business-Outcome-Driven Enterprise Architecture: What Benefits?
Enterprise architecture programs are often perceived as being too long and academic while requiring lots of manual work and producing limited value. Enterprise Architecture also relies on frameworks that may …
Organizational Debt — A Necessary Evil
Regardless of their state of growth, all companies face a certain level of organizational debt, which can paralyze them if it’s not kept under control. Alina Ghiarasim, Lead Business Analyst, EndavaAlina …
Developing and Adopting a Common Language: What’s Required from an Organizational Perspective
Executive Summary It seems obvious enough that companies, government agencies and non-profits would benefit from a common language. Without it, coordinating work is more difficult, computers “don’t talk,” and basic …
Thirty Years of Data Warehousing – Part 3
Data warehouse—into the future The death of the data warehouse has been proclaimed many times and with increasing frequency in this current decade as the data lake has become ever …
Presenting Over The Web
It is a feature of our new reality that we are increasingly communicating through disembodied means (I’m talking web rather than Ouija board here) and this can cause problems for …
How Airbus Leverages Data For Growth
Data at the heart of business strategy With the goal of drastically reducing design times, Airbus has launched a transformation program to find efficiencies across the development cycle of new …
Thirty Years of Data Warehousing – Part 2
Diving into the data lake The data warehouse is an architecture of its era. When it was designed and until the early 2000s, the main source by far of its …
How Can Data Governance Help in the Covid-19 Crisis?
We’ve all been affected by Covid-19, and I hope you and your loved ones are well. The health crisis continues to unfold, and it may be many months before it …
Process is not Just Hot, It Seems to be Truly Sizzling Right Now!
After years of playing the poor relation to other technology trends, the process market is once again a hot topic as a result of new investments and the need to …
Selling Data Governance: How To Win Friends And Influence People
Over the last ten years I have been lucky to work with a variety of client organisations on Data Governance engagements. These organisations have ranged greatly in size, complexity and …
Thirty Years of Data Warehousing – Part 1
In 1988, a cell phone weighed approximately 2 pounds, cost nearly $4,000, offered 30 minutes of talk time—and no other function—having taken some 10 hours to charge. The Motorola DynaTAC …
How Your Business Can Quickly Adopt a Customer First Strategy
Every few days there seems to be another customer service disaster that fills the newspapers and goes viral on social media. These usually happen when an organisation does not adopt …
A Hero’s Journey
Implementing successful MDM is all about story telling. The project leader is tasked with taking the dry subject of data and transforming it into something relatable, exciting and understandable. It’s …
3 Simple Creative Habits That Will Change Your Career
If you work in a company, that you aren’t part of the “creative team” or don’t have a position that is suited to creativity, this is definitely for you! Most …