Listen to this article: Welcome back to the Reservoir of Ideas. It’s February now, so I guess that means that most of our New Year’s resolutions have gone by the wayside. Were “Become Data-Driven” or “Understand Our Data” on your list? Many years ago, I attended a Tom Peters presentation Read more
Listen to this article: I went to my first Teradata Partners User’s Group Conference in 1998 (back then it was the NCR Partners User’s Group Conference). We were considering migrating our data warehouse to Teradata, and a few of us were sent to talk with other Teradata customers. The conversations Read more
Listen to this article: We walked through the door of an otherwise unremarkable industrial park suite into a gymnasium-sized room packed full of shelves. The shelves were packed floor-to-ceiling with banker boxes. The banker boxes were packed full of documents. Back in the early 1990s, two large aerospace companies got Read more
Listen to this article: In September and October, Salesforce, Bosch, Nestle, Target, UPS, and Amazon announced layoffs totaling nearly 100,000 positions. The rationales most often given were workforce reduction and AI. The 14,000 cuts at Amazon got particular attention. After all, Amazon is considered a technology leader and a bellwether Read more
Listen to this article: Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda I’ve seen dozens, no hundreds of Data Governance articles, books, classes, videos, presentations and conferences. You’d think that we’d have it right by now, but we seem to simply be perpetuating what isn’t working. Enough excuses. Read more
Listen to this article: When it comes to data, there are two types of companies: those that are aware of their data quality issues and those that aren’t looking. Does your CEO know how bad your data quality is? Hopefully not, because that means that you haven’t had a negative Read more
Listen to this article: Last week I started looking at Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of the Enterprise Architect. Best practices covered included: maintaining a clear line of sight from the AI deliverable to a business objective and its tangible business value; being realistic in your expectations, especially with what Read more
Listen to this article: This past week I spent some time thinking about AI from the perspective of an Enterprise Architect. Is the Enterprise Architect also the Agentic AI Architect (or just AI Architect)? Perhaps in some organizations, but I would assert that AI Architect is more analogous to an Application Read more
In the Data Ethics episode of the Rock Bottom Data Feed podcast, our guest Daragh O’Brien made the observation that in our industry we often mix up word sequencing. For example, to him there is no such thing as “Data Ethics.” Rather, there is the application of ethics to data. Read more
When was the last time you ran outside when you heard a car alarm? I remember once driving an old, heavy, muffler-challenged vehicle through a parking garage and setting off every car alarm in my wake. They made a lot of noise, but I don’t remember anybody rushing to the Read more