Too Big to Succeed
By now, we’ve all heard the term too big to fail. Billions of dollars in bail-outs were required to save enormous financial institutions that had to survive, even with massive government loans. Think...
View ArticleIn Defense of IT
Business leaders often criticize IT for their inability to get with the times. Do the following questions sound familiar? Why haven’t we embraced the cloud? What’s our open source strategy? What are we...
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The Last Resort: Custom Fields
For many years, I worked implementing different enterprise systems for organizations of all sizes. At some point during the project (hopefully earlier than later), someone would discover that the core...
View ArticleThe Data War Room
The 1993 documentary The War Room tells the story of the 1992 US presidential campaign from a behind-the-scenes’ perspective. The film shows first-hand how Bill Clinton’s campaign team responded to...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Information Management, Part 2: Greed
In my last post, I discussed the impact of wrath on IM projects. Today’s topic is the second of the deadly sins: greed. Note that greed and sloth (to be discussed in a future post) are very different...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Information Management, Part 3: Sloth
In my last post, I talked about greed as it relates to IM projects. Long story short, for different reasons, people actively refuse to share information, train employees, or generally cooperate with...
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Seven Deadly Sins of Information Management, Part 5: Pride
In part four of this series, I discussed lust from an IM standpoint. Now it’s time for pride, defined as an inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meanings. With a negative connotation,...
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Seven Deadly Sins of Information Management, Part 6: Envy
In my last post, I discussed the sin of pride and information management (IM) projects. Today, let’s talk about envy, defined as “a resentful emotion that occurs when a person lacks another’s...
View ArticleData Profiling Is No Luxury
In his excellent series on data profiling, Jim Harris details a number of basic steps that organizations can take to assess the completeness and validity of their data, a process called data profiling....
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Big Data Analytics: Don’t Forget the Endgame
We’re hearing a great deal these days about Big Data and related terms, one of which is Big Data analytics. There are many definitions of this term and here’s one as good as any: Big Data analytics is...
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Incentives, Data, and IT Projects
IT project failures continue to haunt us. Consider the recent BusinessWeek article on the Healthcare.gov. It’s a fascinating read, as it demonstrates that massive problems that plagued the project. In...
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