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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 4

04 Saturday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Analytics, Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Knowledge, Peeves

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Behavioural Economics, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, data integration, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, Goal Setting, Information and Technology, information management, IT Strategy, MDM, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing, Strategy

Continued from Part 3 which can be found here -> Part 3


“The following week the full high-powered delegation from The Taffia Connection and BogartSys fly in. It was if an army had come to do battle with us. Uniformly slick, sullen and tacky. iPhone; laptop; knock-off Marks and Spark’s; check patterns; butt ugly ties; ‘plastique’ shoes; mismatching socks; ‘business’ rucksacks; all weather hoodies; and, worst of all, off-the-peg smirks just begging to be slapped”.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 3

03 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Process

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Behavioural Economics, BI, Big Data, Business, Business Enablement, Business Management, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, Information Technology, IT Strategy, MDM, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing

Continued from Part 2 which can be found here -> Part 2

I look over at Crème, who is now staring out the window watching the rain. I cough, theatrically, for effect. “So, Crème, would you like a rest, or do you want to tell us about what happened next?”

“Oh, yes” Crème says, “Sorry, I was wandering there for a while”. She continues.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Perils of embracing the Faustian Side of IT – Part 1

02 Thursday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Knowledge

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Business, Business Management, Demagogism, Dogma, Information Technology, IT Strategy, MDM, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing, Requirements management

It’s Friday morning in Canary Wharf, and I have been asked to facilitate a meeting of a chapel of IT Dogma and Snake-oil Victims, the self-help recovery chain for people who have fallen victim to the pernicious and debilitating effects of IT dogma and professional rip-offs. Continue reading →

Build it and they will come

21 Sunday Sep 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Extract

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BI, Business Enablement, business intelligence, business strategy, data integration, enterprise data warehousing, information management, MDM, Organisational Autism, Requirements management, Strategy

Extract taken from the draft work-in-progress provisionally titled Assess! Choose! Act! Data Warehousing and Strategy by Martyn Jones, Chief Strategist at Cambriano Energy.

For more than 34 years I have been trying to convince IT organisations that it is not in their best interests to play Santa Claus, especially when it comes to strategy and data management.

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I have tried – again and again, to make people pay attention to this advice, because I think that acting upon this take-away in an intelligent manner is absolutely central for the success of IT, for the benefit of business, and ultimately for the effective realization of Information Management; whether that is Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Decision Support, Data Analytics, Big Data or MDM.

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