The biggest challenges facing information
The challenges facing information today are closely related to the complexity of data management, technology and social factors. Here are some of the biggest challenges:
Tag: Management
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Mastering Data Language for Better Architecture
To know data, you must know the lingo
Narrator: To know data, you must know the grammar of data, information and knowledge. Depending on the language and its precision, accuracy, and richness, we will have a reasonable idea of approaching data and information modelling issues. To know data and information, you must understand the business well. People with a technical background and little or no business knowledge are often oblivious to their ignorance regarding business data and information. When you have a technician in the industry who doesn’t understand this, it’s a problem. If your technician is located thousands of kilometres from your company, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Let’s listen to Pete and Dud wax lyrical about the importance of language and grammar.
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Leadership 7s – Episode 1 – S01E01
Leadership 7s S01E01 This is the first in a series of management talking points. The name Leadership 7s has been influenced by the great game of rugby, which is was the emblematic game of my youth and a passion of the home country of my Mom and Dad, Wales.
In fact, much of what I learned about leadership in my formative years came from fundamentally social influences such as rugby union.
So, today I want to address seven talking points that deal with aspects of leadership, coaching and management.
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Lions led by donkeys: Intense mediocrity in uncool Britannia
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” — Andrew Carnegie, American Businessman and Philanthropist
Why is it the case that in order to become a successful manager in the UK that one must embrace parochial miserableness, abject meanness and byzantine nastiness?
More to the point, why has management in the UK become a politically barren, ethically bereft and dehumanising game of intense mediocrity?
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The Digital Document Lifecycle
The Digital Document Lifecycle
MARTYN RICHARD JONES
To begin at the beginning
This is a story of the life of a digital document. Its purpose is to explain the process of analysing, designing, building, testing and delivering content rich business artefacts in today’s digital age.
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Understanding Strategic Fit: The Cambrian A9 Power Grid
Written by Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Mix
Strategic fit express the degree to which an organization is matching its resources and capabilities with the opportunities in the external environment.Matching occurs through the practice of pre-strategy analysis.
That said, it is very easy to fall into the trap of oversimplifying high-level concepts and overstating the intricacies and interdependencies of strategic-fit factors. (more…)
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Why Management Fails in Information Strategy
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. (more…)
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The ‘Right’ Management Stuff: Lions ‘lead’ by donkeys – 2026 Vision
Martyn Richard Jones
Peter Drucker once stated that “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all”.That is one of the guiding principles in my professional role as strategist, leader and coach. (That’s why I like Oscar Puente, because he does the right things right).
I work in business and IT.
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Just who are you to tell us? Consultant Manager as Leader and Coach – 2026 Remake
Martyn Richard Jones
A remake for 2026
Sometimes I get asked in to support the manager of a failing project.Most of the time I get to take over a failing project, with or without the previous manager’s involvement.
Occasionally I am called in to act as a Project Manager for clients who have brought in Systems Integrators and Management Consultants to do most of the project work.
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Don’t fight the Bull, Isolate it – Deliberately avoiding the evident – Remastered for 2026
Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026
Much of my consulting work is done in the Financial Industry.I was there when the crisis was prepared, when it was baked and when it was brought out of the oven.
There are many theories about what went wrong.
Most of them are misleading, misinformed or simply crap.
Mainly to protect the guilty.
