12 Monday Jan 2015
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
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Business Culture, Business Personalities, Corporate Life, leadership, Management, Organisational Behaviour, Professional Profiles, Team Dynamics, The Usual Suspects of Business, Workplace Humour
A couple of day’s back I was looking through some really interesting LinkedIn articles published via Pulse, and my mind started to wonder.
On each article page, an advert for a professional Who’s Who service appeared, the same advert, again and again, just begging to be clicked.
10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
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Business Consulting, Executive Coaching, leadership, Leadership Coaching, Management, Management Consulting, Organisational Behaviour, Professional Development, Team Leadership, The Consultant Who Thinks They're the Boss
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.
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
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Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Business Ethics, Business Management, business strategy, Corporate Culture, Data Trustworthiness, Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Dysfunction, The Johnny Rotten Guide to Corporate Honesty
You’ve heard the stories. Little Johnny did this, little Johnny did that, little Johnny did god knows what.
28 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Excellence
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and-influence-people/ Data Warehousing, business intelligence, Business Requirements, Business User Engagement, Business-IT Alignment, data architecture, data integration, Dimensional Modelling, enterprise data warehousing, Organisational Behaviour, The Data Warehouse Friendship Test
Young Einstein was awaiting the birth of his sister. His mother and father had been telling him for months to look forward to having somebody to play with. When Einstein eventually got to see his sister, he exclaimed disappointedly “But, it doesn’t have wheels!”
That happens a lot in IT. Young Einstein had a very good excuse, we don’t.
25 Thursday Sep 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Peeves
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business intelligence, Business Requirements, Business-IT Alignment, Change Management, Data Warehouse Failure, Data Warehouse Strategy, Data Warehousing, Organisational Behaviour, Project Governance, Stakeholder Engagement, The Human Error Behind the Data Warehouse Disaster
Simple question, why do I write this blog? To enlighten? To inform? To help? To save mother earth?
Well, no, of course not.
21 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Extract
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Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business-IT Alignment, data integration, Data Warehousing, enterprise data warehousing, information management, Master Data Management (MDM), Organisational Behaviour, Requirements management, The Build-It-and-Pray Strategy
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.
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.
Continue reading18 Thursday Sep 2014
Posted in All Data, Business Intelligence, Extract
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business intelligence, Business-IT Alignment, data architecture, data integration, Data Warehousing, data-strategy, enterprise data warehousing, IT Strategy, Management Accountability, Organisational Behaviour, The Excel-Driven Road to Nowhere
Peace. Tranquility. Mastery.
Catriona Arbusto, an exceptionally talented management consultant, is coming to the end of her presentation. There are people in the room (actually far too many people for it to be simply quirky) staring into the comfortably-numb, banal and vacant order of their smart phones. Continue reading
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Business Integrity, Corporate Governance, Ethical Decision Making, Honour and Humility in Leadership, Humility, leadership, Management Consulting, Organisational Behaviour, Personal Accountability, Professional Ethics, Professional Standards
My original intention was not to write a book on the decline and fall of so many projects, but rather to pen a short essay, a sort of hard-hitting criticism of the litany of IT failures. Of course, this is rarely enough; it wasn’t enough because it identified the issues without provoking debate, and it highlighted common issues without providing guideline suggestions, which meant that it appeared upon reflection to come across as too much like a hi-tech hit and run exercise, beating up on IT failures without actually offering tangible solutions.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Authentic Leadership, Business Ethics, Ethical Decision Making, Leadership Development, Organisational Behaviour, Personal Accountability, Personal Values, Professional Integrity, Professional Standards, Self-Awareness, To Thine Own Self Be True
Far too few CEOs regularly think about IT on a habitual basis, and especially as something that is potentially integrated into everything their companies do and could do. This, however, is not at all surprising; there is a general lack of time for any CEO to be actively involved in what IT does, and they will generally have some degree of misunderstanding of both the historic roles and the relative successes and failures of IT.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in All Data, Architecture, community, Snippet
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business intelligence, Business-IT Alignment, Change Management, Data Warehousing, Human Factors, leadership, Organisational Behaviour, organisational-culture, Stakeholder Engagement, The Human Side of Technology, User Adoption
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Remastered for 2026
Reality bites down hard when it wants to, and more often than not when we are least expecting it. IT is seldom given importance for valid business reasons, such as its support of operational excellence or the quality support of valuable, mission-critical business, and bureaucratic reasons are not necessarily business reasons; they are frequently at the forefront of business life for primarily negative reasons.
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