In IT and enterprise architecture technology tend to take centre stage. It's more glamourous, slick people sell it to you with promises of a silver technological bullet that will solve your problems.

 

And don't get me wrong, I love technology.

 

The thing is that I continually find is that the information part of the equation is often ignored. This imbalance leads to lots of disappointment, lots of wasted investments, lots of half baked implementations that are too brittle to withstand change.

 

There are a number of beauties, beyond not falling into the beartraps just mentioned, that managing information properly is so valuable:

 

1. The basics don't change. There are practically immutable considerations to managing data that apply across company, industry and geography
2. The implementations are mostly about organisation, processes, roles and assets. Technology can help but it's a supporting factor at most.
3. Implementing data management has its challenges, some of it is not easy. Sometimes its complicated, sometimes it's challenging politically. BUT the value it unlocks can be tremendous, and can provide genuine advantage for a long time.

 

This site aims to redress that imbalance and highlight how you can manage your data to better effect. It seems that the time is ripe as the incredible advances in integration AI and analytics are often slowed by badly managed data. This is slowly becoming recognised. This site aims to help.