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The Role of Data Quality in Digital Business Transformation
Companies have always struggled to leverage data quality to the extent necessary to run their business at an optimal level. Their challenges in the digital world are accelerating operational pace, increasing volume of data, variable modification rates and lastly,...
Four Indicators of CMDB Inaccuracy
Few organizations proactively pursue Configuration Management Database (CMDB) data quality initiatives. They typically stand up a CMDB then suffer from the consequences of its gaps and stale data before eventually either abandoning it for a new one or taking on a...
Data Quality Management for The Internet of Things (IoT)
The explosion of data generated by Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems introduces new sources of automated, sensor-based data and creates opportunities to gain new insights about the world around us. However, there is price to pay. New systems and approaches have to be...
Financial Transparency is the Foundation of a Business Relationship built on Trust.
Shaun Daly published a great article titled “Why Financial Transparency Matters”, in which he describes the challenges that traditional service provides are faced with in order to expand margins while winning new clients. The clients, seeking to avoid large up-front...
Trust, but Verify
Did you know the Russian proverb “Trust but Verify” {Doveryai, no proveryai} was the motto of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency? Integrity: We often hear the term “integrity”, commonly used to describe a positive attribute of a person or organization,...
Now IT is YOUR problem (Part 2 of 2)
One of the most interesting and successful aspects of ServiceNow and other IT service request management tools is the way they have moved into non-IT areas. As business becomes more complex and digital, the desire for process automation has expanded. Facilities,...
How much is your bad data really costing you?
Every day employees spend more time than they should trying to find the best available data to make decisions. While some of those decisions are more vital to business operations than others, how would people know in the moment? Leveraging poor quality data for one...
Now IT is YOUR problem (Part 1 of 2)
What exactly do people mean when they say “IT”? The computers? The networks? The people who run them? That organization that loves to say “no” and is always slow and expensive? Dilbert’s “Preventer of Information Services”? IT has been joked about, had...
Top 5 Imperatives of Configuration Management Database Excellence
A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) project never really ends. As long as an organization continues to evolve, the CMDB needs to adapt to the associated IT infrastructure changes. Most people consider a CMDB to be a failure if it contains largely un-used or...
Valuable Business Information is Hidden in your Data
In any organization or IT environment there is no shortage of data being created. It comes from discovery, manual entry, external research and pretty much everything in between. The volume at which data is generated is overwhelming. Buried in the data is...
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