Managing Your Business Data
I had the pleasure of meeting Maria Villar at the IBM’s Information on Demand Conference where she presented on her new book – Managing Your Business Data. Its a great book for someone looking to make...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Collaboration
I’ve always admired the collaborative community for information management professionals that MIKE2.0 is creating, so I figured my first post here should be about collaboration, especially since many...
View ArticleIs there a silver bullet in a volatile world?
There is little doubt that the business environment is changing faster than at any other time in history. The recent book from Peter Evans-Greenwood, The New Instability, argues that shift in the...
View ArticleIndividual Contributors and Collaboration
In my previous post, I discussed the psychology of collaboration, focusing on a few psychological concepts (social loafing and availability bias) that undermine, or at least greatly diminish the...
View ArticleBigger Data needs Better Metadata
Information, data, and metadata are three interrelated words we hear a lot in the enterprise information management industry. An example of the difference, and relationship, between data and...
View ArticleA Contrarian’s View of Unstructured Data
“If you analyzed the flow of digital data in 1980,” Stephen Baker wrote in his 2011 book Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything, “only a smidgen of the world’s information had...
View ArticleThe Enterprise Brain
In his 1938 collection of essays World Brain, H. G. Wells explained that “it is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the...
View ArticleThe Internet of Humans
The Internet of Things became a more frequently heard phrase over the last decade as more things embedded with radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, or similar technology, allowed objects to be...
View ArticleBigger Questions, not Bigger Data
In her book Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, Kathryn Schulz explained “the pivotal insight of the Scientific Revolution was that the advancement of knowledge depends on current theories...
View ArticleBottom-Up Business Intelligence
The traditional notion of data warehousing is the increasing accumulation of structured data, which distributes information across the organization, and provides the knowledge base necessary for...
View ArticleInformation Underwhelm
In the era of big data, we’re confronted by the question Brenda Somich recently blogged: How do you handle information overload? “Does today’s super-connected and informative online environment allow...
View ArticleMetadata and the Baker/baker Paradox
In his recent blog post What’s the Matter with ‘Meta’?, John Owens lamented the misuse of the term metadata — the metadata about metadata — when discussing matters within the information management...
View ArticleLet the Computers Calculate and the Humans Cogitate
Many organizations are wrapping their enterprise brain around the challenges of business intelligence, looking for the best ways to analyze, present, and deliver information to business users. More...
View ArticleHail to the Chiefs
The MIKE2.0 wiki defines the Chief Data Officer (CDO) as one that plays a key executive leadership role in driving data strategy, architecture, and governance as the executive leader for data...
View ArticleBig Data is the Library of Babel
Richard Ordowich, commenting on my Hail to the Chiefs post, remarked how “most organizations need to improve their data literacy. Many problems stem from inadequate data definitions, multiple...
View ArticleAutomation and the Danger of Lost Knowledge
In my previous post I pondered the quality of machine-generated data, cautioning that even though it overcomes some of the inherent errors of human-generated data, it’s not immune to data quality...
View ArticleRisk: The Anti-Value of Information
During a podcast with Dr. Alexander Borek discussing his highly recommended new book Total Information Risk Management, he explained that “information is increasingly becoming an extremely valuable...
View ArticleWe is Smaller than the Sum of its Me Parts
In Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?), Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw explained “the energy released in chemical reactions has been the primary source of power for our civilization since prehistoric...
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The Sound of Sound Information Security
I like it when I stumble across examples of information management concepts. While working on a podcast interview with William McKnight discussing his new book Information Management: Strategies for...
View ArticleScanning the 2014 Technology Horizon
In 1928, the physicist Paul Dirac, while attempting to describe the electron in quantum mechanical terms, posited the theoretical existence of the positron, a particle with all the electron’s...
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