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Learning to hate Agile-at-scale

11 Saturday May 2019

Posted by Martyn Jones in 4th generation Data Warehousing, agile, All Data, Architecture, business, business strategy, Methodology, Process, project management, scrum

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Cordoba, 12th May 2019

Ladies and gentlemen, the performance is about to start!

In 1998, as Programme, Product and Competence Centre manager at Hewlett-Packard, I signed the Agile Manifesto.

At that time, I had been using elements of the Agile-method mindset for the best part of sixteen years.

Previously, in 1995 I was trained and certified in Iterations, an iterative and agile-like methodology for building, maintaining and expanding data warehouses and data marts. Continue reading →

Postmodern Digital Stories: We’ve never seen anything like this before

23 Wednesday Aug 2017

Posted by Martyn Jones in 4th generation Data Warehousing, business, Business Intelligence, business strategy, digital transformation, Good Strat, Good Strategy, Good Strategy Radio, IT strategy, pomo, postmodern, Social Media, Strategy

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Dunny on the Wold, 23rd August 2017

The prevailing conventional wisdom is that innovative technologies and their novel use are having an effect on many peoples’ lives. Indeed, the fascination with the possibilities offered by social media, the internet and the age of data is becoming all pervasive. Of course, not all is goodness and light. Some aspects, such as Denial of Service attacks, phishing without a permit and creatively-ambiguous chimping, mark the down side of this story. Continue reading →

Donald, Mayor of Trumpton, USA

04 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by Martyn Jones in 4th generation Data Warehousing, behaviour, business, business strategy, Good Strategy, Politics, POTUS, Sociology, Strategy, USA

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Bornheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 4th August 2017

Like him or loath him, the fact of the matter is that the 45th President of the USA is Donald Trump.

Many see him as a blow-dried extrovert who can close big business deals and get the important jobs done. Others see him as an uncouth, ignorant and potty-mouthed bully, totally unfit for any public office – even that of dog-catcher.

He may have lots of detractors both sides of the beltway, but Donald Trump, who has been compared favourably with Andrew Jackson, has retained considerable support, especially in the rustbelt and coal mining communities.

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What Every CEO Needs to Know About Big Data

18 Wednesday Jan 2017

Posted by Martyn Jones in 4th generation Data Warehousing, All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business, Business Intelligence, business strategy, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, pig data, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians

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New York City, 18th January 2017

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I’ll make this short, sweetish and to the point.

These are the arguments that CEOs need to know about Big Data.

It was written for CEOs and those who provide independent advice to CEOs.

If you are someone who wants to be prepared for CEOs who are armed with the realities of Big Data, then maybe this is for you too. Continue reading →

Big Data on the Roof of the World

29 Monday Aug 2016

Posted by Martyn Jones in 4th generation Data Warehousing, All Data, Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business, Business Intelligence, business strategy, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, good start, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstart, goodstartegy, goodstrat, Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones

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Mount_Everest_as_seen_from_Drukair2_PLW_editOnce upon a time, there was a mountain known as Peak 15. Very little was known about it. Then in 1852, surveyors found it was the highest in the world, and they named it Everest.

As with other significant challenges that we can identify in life, many people have been driven by a passionate desire to conquer peaks all around the world. This is just one illustration of those of us who can identify their significant challenges and rise to them. This sharp focus, determination and courage turns ordinary citizens into people who are invariably on a mission. People who know what they want. Continue reading →

Cambriano Risk Framework

03 Monday Nov 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Analytics, Architecture, business, Risk

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This is the forward to a strategic paper on ETRM and risk management and reporting.

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The Great Information Struggle: Us and Them

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Architecture, Assets, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Management, Value

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In the dim and distant past most organisations struggled along with what they euphemistically referred to as Information Systems.

They were Information Systems with no overall design, no elements of management and no architecture.

Information Systems were built to show how the company had been performing in the immediate past, and that was it. Continue reading →

The IT Circus and the Infinite Loop – Part 1

10 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Ask Martyn, awareness, Best principles, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse

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The IT business suffers a malaise, it also affects other businesses. In IT, like in other lines of business, much of what has been made is eventually side-lined and forgotten. If it was ever on the radar in the first place. Continue reading →

Operational awareness isn’t for wimps! So, get it right

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in awareness, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, operational, pig data, Strategy

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I frequently include the term Operational Awareness in talks.

I think it’s important for strategy.

So I wrote a piece that tried to convey what I mean by the term.

But first, a diagram:

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Figure 1 – Operational awareness

This is a simplified high-level example of business data objects found in certain organisations. In the above diagram I have reused an industry example of nine business data objects to represent operational data[1].

For completeness and to maintain rationality in this section here follows a summary list of the nine key groups of business data needed to have a coherent and cohesive operational awareness (these data groups are also frequently referred to as business data objects):

  • A: Party embodies all of the participants that may have contact with the organisation or that are of interest to the organisation and about which the organisation maintains data. This includes data about the organisation itself; data about external organisations; data about external and internal individuals; and, data about the roles of involved parties.
  • B: Arrangement represents a prospective or existing agreement, between two or more individuals, organizations or organizational units that provides and affirms the rights, rules and obligations associated with a transaction between parties.
  • C: Condition describes the specific requirements that pertain to how the business is conducted and includes information such as prerequisite or qualification criteria and restrictions or limits associated with the requirements. Conditions can apply to various aspects of an enterprise’s operations, such as the operational parameters of a resource item, the sale and servicing of products, the determination of eligibility to purchase a product, the authority to perform business transactions, the assignment of specific general ledger accounts appropriate for different business transactions, the required file retention periods for various types of information kept by an enterprise and the selection criteria for a market segment.
  • D: Product/Service describes the services, merchandise or facilities that can be offered, sold or purchased by the enterprise, its competitors and other Involved Parties during the normal course of its business. This concept also includes goods and services that are of interest to the enterprise such as supplies for manufacture.
  • E: Location covers a place where something can be found, a destination of information or a bounded area, such as a country or state, about which the enterprise wishes to keep information.
  • F: Classification is used to organize and manage specific business information by defining structures that represent classification categories. Classification also organizes and manages groups of business concepts that apply to multiple concepts.
  • G: Business Direction/Organisation Direction refers to and records expressions of a party’s intent with regard to the manner and environments in which it wishes to carry out its business. Business direction items contains, keeps data about, and is used to support the enterprise’s business and financial plans, policies, procedures and schedules.
  • H: Events describe a happening about which the organisation wishes to keep information as a part of carrying out its mission and conducting its mission.
  • I: Resource object includes and describes any value item, either tangible or intangible, that is owned, managed or used by, or of specific interest to, the organisation in the course of accomplishing its mission.

The key facets of operational awareness detailed above constitute a potential of fundamental importance in the formulation of organizational strategy.

Timely, accurate and appropriate data at this level can temper ambition with the facts on the ground, with operation insight, and with the effectiveness of time and place utilisation.

But take care. In most organisations there will be a spread of attention to the key facets illustrated here, and they will be treated with varying degrees of intensity relative to their overall contribution to strategy formulation. In addition, organizational specific facets may also be introduced where needed in order to complement the overall set of operational awareness facets described here.

[1] IBM’s IFW/BDW.

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