Capping IT Off
Monthly Archives: December 2010
There’ll yet be music in the skies!
It’s been a long time coming, and probably still a long way to go, but the vision of a celestial jukebox for music “anywhere, anytime and on any device”, is creeping ever closer to becoming reality. A couple of interesting, if unrelated, developments provide support for my optimism.
Information needs Mastering
he key point is that analytics, data warehouses and other elements are great but they still suffer from the age old problem of “Garbage In, Garbage Out”. While MDM doesn’t guarantee all of the information is of high quality it does ensure that the core entities are at least correctly identified. Turning the data landfill into a usable repository requires active business processes which identify and manage the core entities.
The Demise of Middle Management by Social Media
Middle management is essentially the ones who might lose their job due to social media. The classic task of middle management is to manage and report to C level (or more in general: upper management) about a group of people. Since the group of people grew beyond manageable sizes they were split up in smaller groups managed by a middle manager (this is a very oversimplified presentation of the facts though). Now with social media, …





