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Tag Archives: Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Data Warehousing: A Smart Approach – REMASTER 2026

13 Friday Nov 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Extract, Masterclass

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Avoiding Scope Creep, business intelligence, Business Requirements, Business-IT Alignment, data architecture, data governance, Data Warehousing Strategy, Data-Driven Decision Making, enterprise data warehousing, Enterprise Information Management, Requirements management, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Data Prioritisation, Strategic Planning, The Fallacy of Asking the Business for All Its Data

HERE WE ARE!

Extract taken from the draft work-in-progress provisionally titled Assess! Choose! Act! Data Warehousing and Strategy by Martyn Jones 

It’s a fantastically chic restaurant. It’s one of the best, if not the best in town. It’s Catalan or Basque, for sure. A group of twelve people sit at a round table. Silver service, starched white linen, spotless polished lead crystal glass, the works. There is even a minimalist arrangement of seasonal flowers. The owner of the exquisite restaurant walks across to the table, accompanied by one of her impeccably uniformed staff, who holds a notepad and pen in readiness; “Good afternoon, and, what would our esteemed ladies and gentlemen like today?” she asks.

Confused? If you haven’t seen this before then you should be. So just read on fellow traveller.

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Consider this: can we avoid destructive eagerness?

15 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Consider this

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Business Alignment, Business Requirements, Data Warehousing, information management, IT Project Failure, IT Strategy, project management, Requirements management, Stakeholder Engagement, The Perils of Unbridled Enthusiasm

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:16

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Martyn Richard Jones

Remaster for 2026. A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

I’m not a psychologist, and people who read my blog will know this for sure. But I would like to examine the notion of wanting something so much that, at best, we don’t enjoy it when we obtain it, or worst still, that our eagerness means that we will never get that which we truly want. Continue reading →

Improving IT-Business Communication for Data Success – Remaster 2026

27 Saturday Sep 2014

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Peeves

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Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Requirements, Business-IT Alignment, Data Mart Development, Data Warehousing, IT Strategy, organisational-culture, Stakeholder Engagement, The Great IT-Business Communication Breakdown

In a city centre office block, somewhere in Scotland, the conversation between the IT Business Manager (Bill) and the Information Management Manager (Richie) is in full swing,, Bob is irate because his successfully delivered data mart has been derided as unusable rubbish by the business people it was meant to serve.

Let’s join the conversation: Continue reading →

Why Data Warehouse Projects Fail: The People Problem – Remaster 2026

25 Thursday Sep 2014

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones 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.

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Strategic Data Warehousing: A Smart Approach – REMASTER 2026

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Extract, Masterclass

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business intelligence, Business Requirements, Business-IT Alignment, data architecture, Data Warehousing, data-strategy, enterprise data warehousing, information management, Requirements management, Stakeholder Engagement, The Corporate Data Shopping Spree

HERE WE ARE!

Extract taken from the draft work-in-progress provisionally titled Assess! Choose! Act! Data Warehousing and Strategy by Martyn Jones 

It’s a fantastically chic restaurant. It’s one of the best, if not the best in town. It’s Catalan or Basque, for sure. A group of twelve people sit at a round table. Silver service, starched white linen, spotless polished lead crystal glass, the works. There is even a minimalist arrangement of seasonal flowers. The owner of the exquisite restaurant walks across to the table, accompanied by one of her impeccably uniformed staff, who holds a notepad and pen in readiness; “Good afternoon, and, what would our esteemed ladies and gentlemen like today?” she asks.

Confused? If you haven’t seen this before then you should be. So just read on fellow traveller.

Continue reading →

The Human Side of IT: Bridging Technology and People – REMASTER 2026

14 Sunday Sep 2014

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones 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

INTRO 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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