Category: Prime Business Decision Loop

Minimizing What is Governed – Shortening the Path to Action

Recently I was booking air travel and some of the options struck me as odd routes. You know, going to your destination with two lay-over’s and a plane change. Oh and it takes about twice as long as a direct flight while the difference in price is minimal. So if we would not book our [...]

A Simple Choice

Right now many enterprise data producers behave like monopolies. They set the standards for what they produce and the downstream applications have no choice but to take what they get. This is a fundamental problem with most enterprise data architectures. This behavior encourages chaotic environments and cost business billions of dollars in wasted effort.

Data Governance – Getting Started

Many of my blog entries have focused on developing understanding about why data governance matters, or fundamental concepts. Some readers are challenging me to make it more actionable. They want answers to the question of what actions can they put into a project plan? One of the first things you can do is answer the [...]

Governing Prime Data

Recently someone asked me, “What is Prime Data and how does it relate to data governance?”  It is a good question because many people struggle with deciding what data needs to be governed and Prime Data helps reign in the scope of governance efforts. Actually, the term first started out as key data suggested a [...]

Introducing the Prime Business Decision Loop

This month the Prime Business Decision Loop was introduced to the world on TDAN.  James Taylor of Smart Enough Systems commented on it in his blog. I think James made some great observations and I wanted to comment on them. The model does allow for fully automated decision loops and not just manual ones. For the [...]

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