If you trust your data, you will be able to get on the front foot with your data consumers. Being on the front foot is the best form of defence in data provision. It allows you to clear the fog that the consumers spout about data, and the more often you do that, they more the consumers start to trust your data, or at the very least, stop using it as a smoke screen to bad performance.
Have trust in the data you provide, don’t let it bite you on the ass!
It was quite a few years ago that I developed a model very similar to this as part of a repeatable methodology for traditional BI deployments. Over the years I have used this to great success in a number of large BI deployments.
As I ventured into the world of MDM, if felt that the model could be adapted to provide a similar methodology for MDM deployment. I think it works, however, I suppose if I didn’t I wouldn’t be writing about it …
Our plans and goals need to be set against direct, identifiable business needs. The only way we can place a benefit value against a technology project, whether it is efficiency savings, risk reduction or business operational improvement, is to align it with a need or pain within the business.
It was Galileo who said “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them” and I couldn’t think of a more apt opening statement to this debate [...]
