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		<title>The gnarly, subtle-seeming data quality question</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2011/11/the-gnarly-subtle-seeming-data-quality-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve posted a couple of articles at my company’s blog site that reflect my view on data quality efforts: Yes, there is a business case for improving data quality, and I’ve got real business value examples. If you look for real money where you anecdotally know there are data quality problems, you’ll likely find it <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2011/11/the-gnarly-subtle-seeming-data-quality-question/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abstracting and recombining all the way to the bank</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2011/08/abstracting-and-recombining-all-the-way-to-the-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past I&#8217;ve never understood what people really mean they say &#8220;think outside the box&#8221; but Jim Harris, in a recent OCDQ blog post, helped me figure it out. Mr. Harris ends with this provocative line: &#8220;the bottom line is Google and Facebook have socialized data in order to capitalize data as a true corporate asset.&#8221;  The post <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2011/08/abstracting-and-recombining-all-the-way-to-the-bank/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Data quality and data governance lessons from national health care</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2011/03/data-quality-data-governance-lessons-from-national-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://robertlambert.net/2011/03/data-quality-data-governance-lessons-from-national-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://robertlambert.net/?p=1159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who would want to be a national health care administrator?  Who would want the responsibility for managing health care and formulating health policy for tens or hundreds of millions of people?  It seems obvious that such decisions would rely on quality data.  A recent interview impressed upon me how much data managers can learn from a <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2011/03/data-quality-data-governance-lessons-from-national-health-care/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Business requirements up front</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2010/03/plan-decide-ac/</link>
		<comments>http://robertlambert.net/2010/03/plan-decide-ac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://robertlambert.net/?p=866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.&#8221; &#8211; Pablo Picasso It is an old story: about 30% of IT application projects succeed, 45% are &#8220;challenged,&#8221; and the other quarter fail <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2010/03/plan-decide-ac/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Grateful Dead as strategic managers</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2010/02/the-grateful-dead-as-strategic-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://robertlambert.net/2010/02/the-grateful-dead-as-strategic-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March 2010 issue of The Atlantic features an article called &#8220;Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead.&#8221; It&#8217;s a great read, especially the second half, which tells of the band&#8217;s innovations in organization, fan loyalty, and, perhaps counterintuitively, creating value by freely giving away their product. The success of these measures seems self evident: the <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2010/02/the-grateful-dead-as-strategic-managers/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>BI Business Case Basics: Three Things to Remember</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2009/07/bi-business-case-basics-three-things-to-remember/</link>
		<comments>http://robertlambert.net/2009/07/bi-business-case-basics-three-things-to-remember/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://robertlambert.net/?p=587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are three things to remember when putting together a BI business case: Intangible benefits don’t count. BI has no inherent value. Senior managers often make decisions about future outcomes with insufficient data. Intangible Benefits Don’t Count: An effective business case communicates tangible future value in a convincing way.  An argument has a chance of <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2009/07/bi-business-case-basics-three-things-to-remember/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Coming soon: data like money</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2009/05/coming-soon-data-like-money/</link>
		<comments>http://robertlambert.net/2009/05/coming-soon-data-like-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 14:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://robertlambert.net/?p=455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a commonplace to say we should manage data like a resource. But when you think about it, data is an asset but not a resource.  Data isn&#8217;t a thing like real estate, employees, or customers, but rather it represents all of those things.  In data-geek-speak, data is a meta-resource that holds information about <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2009/05/coming-soon-data-like-money/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>DQ, he isn&#8217;t so dumb he just needs glasses</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2009/05/dq-he-isnt-so-dumb-he-just-needs-glasses/</link>
		<comments>http://robertlambert.net/2009/05/dq-he-isnt-so-dumb-he-just-needs-glasses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 20:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent very thoughtful post on data quality, Paul Erb plays out an analogy comparing data users with Don Quixote and data quality professionals with Sancho Panza, then reverses the analogy to cleverly coin the &#8220;Sancho Panza&#8221; test of data quality professionals.  He encourages data quality professionals promoting the critical role of data quality <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2009/05/dq-he-isnt-so-dumb-he-just-needs-glasses/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A proposal for Enterprise Information Architecture</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2009/04/proposal-for-eia/</link>
		<comments>http://robertlambert.net/2009/04/proposal-for-eia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While many organizations understand the value of managing the information resource, for many others information management remains abstract and difficult to define.  In an effort to make it concrete here’s a hypothetical proposal to provide an Enterprise Information Architect for a hypothetical organization that really needs one. Today: inconsistent data of uncertain quality blurs enterprise <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2009/04/proposal-for-eia/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Big project coming up?  Learn to two-step.</title>
		<link>http://robertlambert.net/2009/03/big-project-two-step/</link>
		<comments>http://robertlambert.net/2009/03/big-project-two-step/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History is littered with IT application projects that end late, go way over budget, or abandoned altogether.  I was fortunate enough to see one work out really well (almost &#8211; please read on).  It was no mistake.  It came down to a simple method advocated by a gentleman named named John Carpenter. The project was <a href='http://robertlambert.net/2009/03/big-project-two-step/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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