For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a very simple metric to assess how serious a company is about its information management practices: The number of software releases delayed solely because the data has not been properly curated. I have yet to see a single example. Software releases Read more…
Everybody likes a pithy definition. Marketers describe them as “sticky,” meaning that they’re easy to remember. Of course, that doesn’t always mean they’re useful or completely accurate. Information Management has a couple. Metadata is almost universally described as “Data About Data,” but I’d be willing to bet that you rolled Read more…
A popular perception of artificial intelligence comes from the Menacing Computer movie genre. Skynet becomes self-aware and seeks to exterminate humanity. HAL9000 kills Discovery’s crew when they plan to disconnect it. Joshua wants to play a game of Global Thermonuclear War. And we’re all trapped in the matrix. Yes, there Read more…
Most everybody loves new toys, and it’s not often that you get to try out a new kind of toy. This morning I test drove the new Apple Vision Pro, so I thought I’d add my thousand words to the millions being written about it today. The timing of the Read more…
During the spring of my freshman year of high school I competed on the track team in the long jump and triple jump. I joined because I was always a decent jumper, and I thought that those events wouldn’t involve much running. I discovered that they did. A lot. Especially Read more…
For those who don’t want to click from page to page, here are all five articles in the Data Chasm series. In it, we explore the question of why we continue to see overwhelming numbers of analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, information management, and data warehouse project failures despite the Read more…
Relating the challenge of launching a new corporate process to a flywheel is a tired, overused metaphor. Probably because it so often applies. Like here. It’s been hard getting started. Probably several false starts. Progress has been agonizingly slow. But now you’ve found a new ally. Hopefully several. They showed Read more…
I mentioned in my Christmas article that it would be interesting to see what ChatGPT would come up with for the 12 days of a data focused Christmas. We’ve been snowed in here the past couple days, so I thought it would be fun to try it out. I prompted Read more…
If you’re just joining, welcome. Before launching in at the middle, it might be useful to go back and read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I’ll wait. Recapping very briefly: It seems that most everybody has become comfortable with the notion that the overwhelming majority of data warehouse, Read more…
This tale may sound familiar to companies that have not yet crossed the Data Chasm (and maybe even to some that have). A project team was modernizing a major operational system. One that had been written decades earlier. One where nearly all the developers and subject matter experts with knowledge Read more…