Columns

The Dark Underbelly of Our Shiny, Clean Technology

Robert Farris
Green IT is increasingly important to business leadership

Circle of Blame

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins presents a fictitious story with 11 real lessons to take to the bank

Implementing a Data Governance Initiative

Jane Griffin
The road to effective data governance starts with choosing to formalize the practice of managing corporate data

The Role of the Consultant: Be Conscious of Naming Conventions

William McKnight
The efficiency and convenience of having everyone on the same page with their references is unmistakable

Social as a Service, Rather Than an Application

Tony Byrne
A durable enterprise architecture looks at social computing as a set of services

Real Definitions versus Nominal Definitions in Data Management

Malcolm Chisholm
Concepts, rather than words, are important to data modelers

Data Modeling in the Cloud

Steve Hoberman
Will the cloud make our data management jobs easier or harder?

Marketing Systems for Online Media

David M. Raab
If a single common problem threatens the outbound campaign systems, it's the need to handle unstructured data

What is Different about Data Integration Project Management?

Don Steffen
Understand special challenges and dependencies on source systems for feed timing and data quality

Don't Forget The Staff

Greg Todd
Analytics can help HR managers drive better workforce performance

More Data Quality for Confident Operational Business Intelligence

Jonathan G. Geiger
A continuous improvement approach to operational BI dictates that the root causes - not just the symptoms - of the problem are addressed

The Real World Versus MBA Textbooks

Gary Cokins
Understanding how to influence, persuade and educate people is arguably more critical to transform an organization than understanding the principles and concepts of performance management methodologies

A Recipe for Success When Companies - and Their Data - Merge

Don Steffen
Consistent processes, migration validation and performance consideration are mandatory in M&A situations

The Surprise Inside: Making Your Supply Chain More Sustainable

Robert Farris
In order to understand the full lifecycle environmental impact and cost related to your supply chain, you will need to gather and report on a tremendous amount of information

The Time Capsule: Looking Back at Your Job 50 Years From Now

Gary Cokins
The year is 2060 and today our company’s time capsule, sealed back in the dark days of late 2009, was finally opened