Why has it become so challenging for corporate America to establish effective internal communication? Meeting goals and objectives seems increasingly problematic. A common workplace perception is others block progressive efforts either intentionally or through incompetence. Could the technology we designed be pushing us further apart rather than uniting our organizations? Is the specialization of the workplace creating a fragmented environment?
Take a look at current job boards. Jobs are segmented first by industry, then by function, and then again by specific skills; there are thousands of specialized niches. In the agrarian economy of a hundred years ago, the work force was much less segmented. If in the last 10,000 years, we have evolved from two classifications–hunter and gatherer–to thousands, what does the future hold? Read more »
Tags: Communication, Data Custodian, Data Management, data steward, Humor, industrial psychology, organizational psychology, oversight
Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management | TomJ March 30, 2008 | 
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or “Cool, a 20G metadata repository….”
Try to pitch the idea of a metadata management solution to the average business manager and just watch their eyes glaze over. Most either don’t care or just don’t get why it is something they should spend money on. Add to the problem the overuse of metadata as the holy grail of data management and the problem of getting buy-in gets worse. Read more »
or “Whoa, I didn’t see that one coming.”
If you are an avid boater, over time you collect a wide range of sea stories. You know the kind that start out with, “I remember one time off the coast of….” The common thread to these stories is that like Aesop’s Fables there is generally a lesson buried not too far beneath the surface. What follows is just that type of story. Read more »