Comments on: One Version Of The Truth

By: Wally Bock

Wally Bock — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:18:28 +0000

Great post, Chuck. We can expand this to most professions outside of IT as well. It’s easy to see how others are coming up short. Just look at the results. But for us, the measure is intent, plus reasons for why we couldn’t do what we intended.

By: Rebeka Clifton

Rebeka Clifton — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:31:03 +0000

Great post, Chuck. A very wise CIO (yes, you!) once told me that an effective Information Management solution also should not rely solely on user input but allow data (both structured and unstructured to some extent, legal involvement aside) to be searchable. I was talking with a client today about the intersection of EA and Data/BI solutions and the implications of it on the enterprise. Fascinating stuff, if I do say so myself!

By: Long Huynh

Long Huynh — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:10:42 +0000

How true your observations are about the state of IT’s own data management. And how insightful your answers to its problems are. I like to elaborate on one of them: Focus.

IT organization is built on top of technologies. It usually structured in silos of technical specialties. The notion of a horizontal function dealing with policies, processes, procedures and record-keeping of management decisions is frown upon as unnecessary overhead. It’s the lack of Focus (on the importance of such tasks and their governance functions) that does us in. The CIO should have someone heading such functions before communicating with the rest of the organization about the importance of having “one version of the truth”.