Posts tagged: governance

Governance and Innovation – Complimentary or Contradictory

On LinkedIn, the following question was posted by Asad Quraishi in the IT Governance Group discussions. Does IT governance promote innovation? There’s enough compelling research demonstrating the value of governance to the bottom line. This ranges from studies showing that firms using IT governance best practices are 20% more profitable than their peers to showing [...]

Thursday June 18th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Someone has to be the Mom

Last week I was talking with one of my brothers and he commented that there are a lot of parallels between large families and business organizations. We both have good frames of reference having worked in IT and being 2 of 11 kids, so we started comparing family stories to data governance lessons learned. It [...]

Monday April 20th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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.

Wednesday March 18th, 2009 in , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

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