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Improve Sales Operations with AI Assistants

In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies are increasingly seeking innovative solutions to enhance customer engagement, streamline operations, and improve overall efficiency. One such solution is the integration of AI assistants (chatbots) into customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. By leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots provide businesses with a highly effective tool for improving… Read More »Improve Sales Operations with AI Assistants

Harness AI to Benefit Your Business

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, one concept stands out as both a disruptor and an enabler: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Understanding and embracing AI is not just advantageous but imperative for business leaders. AI has the potential to revolutionize business operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation across industries. While this applies to enterprise stewardship in general,… Read More »Harness AI to Benefit Your Business

Why Lineage Isn’t Transformative

Data lineage is seldom synonymous to understanding data transformation… With a rich history of lineage discussions over my career, I have come to realize that far too many people are convinced data lineage is some zen-like key to understanding their data. I find this to be a fundamental misconception. Sadly, it is also trending as… Read More »Why Lineage Isn’t Transformative

Business Capability Modeling

Rendering Business Capability, Data and Tech Alignment  Building the Prototype for Dynamic, Realtime Data Visualization Our team used this project to prototype the io.datavisuals.com and ai.datavisuals.com engines used to power the first Data Visuals SaaS platform. The goal was to enable real-time data feeds or file uploads to connect with data viz components interactively. This… Read More »Business Capability Modeling

Is Your App Portfolio Killing Your Data?

If you subscribe to the notion that business capabilities are the foundation of the enterprise, it stands to reason that data becomes the capstone for each capability. Building upon our viewpoint that business and data parity are table stakes for transformation, and you then add the concept of mapping data to a business capability model,… Read More »Is Your App Portfolio Killing Your Data?

Manage What Matters

The past 10 years have brought tremendous changes in how the world consumes and thinks about data. At no time in the history of managing information have humans become more aware of the role data plays in all of our lives. Better still, most of us are keenly aware of what happens when it’s not… Read More »Manage What Matters

On Data Stewardship

As someone who’s practiced professionally as both a data and enterprise architect, I’ve always felt that EA practices had too much focus on technology. If you’ve worked in the EA field, it should come as no surprise that the majority of Enterprise Architects have come to their role from previous technical roles within IT. While… Read More »On Data Stewardship

Enough About Data Quality

Data quality conversations can be tiresome. Due in large part to people not understanding why their data is poor. This results in speculation as to how it got that way. The fact that bad data often goes un-noticed until it’s really needed doesn’t help matters. Admittedly the title of this piece may stray into click-bait… Read More »Enough About Data Quality

Rethinking Data Governance

Let’s be honest — data governance can be tough. To begin with, it’s an over-loaded term. It means different things to different people. As a result, far too many programs struggle to get traction or worse yet, falter only to be relegated to the heap of corporate process improvement fails. Sometimes these failures take the… Read More »Rethinking Data Governance

Data Catalogs Drive Better Master Data

Using a Data Catalog as an early alignment and design tool for your Master & Reference Data Management programs will drive faster, better and (often) cheaper results. Master Data Management Challenges If you’ve ever tried to stand up a Master Data Management (MDM) program in an enterprise, no doubt you’ve quickly realized how challenging mastering… Read More »Data Catalogs Drive Better Master Data