Tag Archive for ‘Business Process Management’

37 Definitions of “Employee ID”

What happens to data quality when an organization has 37 different definitions of a single term? Paula Sigmon explains how people on both the IT and business sides are affected.

Defining Terms: Agree, or Doom your Project

Paula Sigmon looks beyond a recent Harvard Business Review piece and discusses the importance of ensuring a team collaborates on the terminology at the core of their business.

6 Essential Elements of Data Security

Which six elements comprise successful data security strategies? Kim examines recent trends in data security and compliance and offers insights to protect your organization and its data.

More Mobile, More Competitive Government

Should government agencies compete with the private sector? What would that mean for data privacy? Stephan Zoder looks at how public-private partnerships stack up.

Improving Business Processes with MDM

Anju Willard recaps a recent discussion with Trey Anderson and Alex Eastman about improving business processes through MDM. Learn how MDM-Powered Applications and process-oriented data stewardship enhance master data quality, and why we must know how information is being consumed.

Mobility: Inventing the New Division of Labor

Consumers want products, services and processes that enable a mobile lifestyle. Stephan looks at some of the trends that enable this, and how organizations can work towards end-to-end processes that have incredible profit potential.

Data Finds Data, and Relevance Finds You

Alex reflects on the recent IOD11 conference, sharing the themes still resonating with him that will become even more important in 2012.

Top 5 InfoSphere Demos at IOD

David looks at the 52 InfoSphere demos that will be available at IOD11 and picks the five most interesting and innovative. Be sure to stop by!

Consuming Master Data on Your Own Terms

While we talk often about a “single view” of master data, in reality, MDM needs to provide multiple “right views” based on what is needed by the consumer, whether it’s an application or business process. Henk explains how the Adaptive Services Interface (ASI) makes this possible.

Trust Your Master Data by Aligning BPM & MDM

Aligning your MDM and BPM project requirements and success metrics is critical to delivering business value in a measured and repeatable way. Trey explains why iterating with this approach will continue to improve business performance.