In earlier blogs, I have stated that I needed to clean up my archives. Well, I did. Well, I am still doing it. OK, I'm not there yet. But anything that definitely could be discarded is gone. Out. Shredded. Deleted. Wiped from the surface of the earth...
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The books are getting thicker
By H. Vanzui
I am not talking about eBooks or Audiobooks, although it would be a novel idea to try those formats for these book: I am talking about the financial statements lots of companies need to present to their stakeholders, their parent companies, their...
Read moreSales are down
By H. Vanzui
I am all for information sharing and I am all for lots of information. But I am also a huge fan of restraint and proportion. Not everybody needs to obtain all information and not all possible information is needed to still do a good job. This week I...
Read moreIn with the new, out with the old
By H. Vanzui
Last month I was involved with a company which had implemented a new central application, based on an off-the-shelf package. It had been a difficult implementation on many levels: not used to pre-built applications meant tuning it to the company...
Read moreThe Design Authority is fading
By H. Vanzui
2CommentsThe Design Authority role is a vital role in large, architecture based programs. Unfortunately, this is not always recognized and particularly in times of tight budgets, often discarded or reduced. Ideally, the Design Authority role is taken up by an...
Read moreQuality, or something quite like it
By H. Vanzui
In my opinion, the fundamental flaw in Data Quality is that we, the user, are not specific enough. Too often we assume that what we think is right, is right. Unfortunately, quality is subjective. And confusion about meaning doesn't make it any...
Read moreInformation Art
With all the information floating out there on the web and within our companies, it is hard to make proper sense of it. True, web searches are getting more and more intelligent and the semantic web will surely bring us closer to our information than...
Read moreGetting a grip on Data
By H. Vanzui
Recently, I was called in to advice on a dispute concerning the delivery of the required data to a Business Intelligence environment from one of the source systems. The problem was that there was not enough time in the weekend to run both month-end...
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