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In Defense of Band-Aids
I’ve written before about the limitations of Band-Aids and other workarounds in the data management space. By Band-Aids, I’m talking about the following: Standalone spreadsheets MySQL and Microsoft...
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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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Time for an Information Management Strategy?
I recently had the opportunity to visit four small businesses in a consulting capacity. Along with two other experts, I met some pretty dynamic little companies across the United States. These other...
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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...
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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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On Airplanes and Project Management
An oft-used metaphor in the project management arena is that of an airplane. Put quite simply, enterprise systems (read: ERP, CRM, and others) are supposed to be implemented and activated in a way that...
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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 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...
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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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