25 Top Information Managers: 2011
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2010 25 Top Information Manager Winners.
Highlights from our 2010 25 Top Information Managers Symposium
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Chuck Backus, VP, Enterprise Data, LexisNexis
Backus´s title at the well-known data and services provider rests between the role of an architect and CIO. Nominated for his MDM role in a multiyear enterprise transformation, Backus works with three groups adding up to 160 FTEs and consultants in enterprise data services, data warehousing/BI and middleware. All these initiatives leak back to governance, which Backus is applying in a mix of projects.
"The long-term thing is to get the assets into place and then put them into the business to give them some teeth. On the tactical side where the bridge really exists [you want] to put data governance into motion, put those master files into the enterprise and then link them to all the places where they necessarily need to interact." Putting data governance into motion, Backus says, is the difference between the notion of governance and actually doing it.
Working in an environment where business priorities and processes are changing at the same time, Backus says the services route was the most flexible way to serve both without prioritizing either. "We´ve taken a services approach to build a master file, build services on top of it to expose it and now go after the places in your enterprise where you need to make the impact the soonest."
