Month: March 2010

Sometimes it is the simplest things…

Yesterday I took some time out from work to help hang some new light fittings at home. Our local handyman/neighbour was doing the hard work as my wife has seen enough of my father’s DIY exploits to have put an embargo on me even looking sideways at power tools. The estimated duration of the job …

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St. Patrick’s Day Special

I found this on http://www.motivatedphotos.com and it struck me that it is a wonderful metaphor for data integration, information quality, and data governance in many organisations where they are reacting to issues, sustaining silos, or viewing all of this as an IT issue rather than a business challenge, or trying to solve the challenge with …

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Wrong Country Wrong Call

I’m diverting briefly today from my regular information quality themes to pick up on a debate that has been triggered by Simon over on Tuppenceworth about the latest tsunami of magical thinking that is Your Country Your Call. For those of you in Ireland who reside under a rock or in a cave or readers …

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