Author Archives: Chris Jackson

What’s In Your Programme’s Data Workstream?

It’s not uncommon for us to be invited into a client when they already have a major programme of systems and process change underway. This may consists of multiple system replacement projects, a significant implementation of ERP or CRM which … Continue reading

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Finance and Marketing – Your data governance friends

“Spurn ye not the Finance Department, though their countenance be impassive, their spreadsheets be many, and in their eyes thou art a novice. For they know the dark arts which transform many sources of data unto an account of thine … Continue reading

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Data geek, fluffy bunny, or anguished conscience of data governance?

In our experience successful data governance needs to bring together solid data expertise with a Machiavellian insight into corporate politics.  That’s why we have an interesting mixture of data and process people, techies and change management types, architects and political … Continue reading

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Subjects, concepts and scenarios – More on business data modelling

As I’ve previously mentioned, in order to achieve the scope and breadth we need in a business data model, we produce a conceptual model of anything up to 100 concepts, grouped into fairly generic ‘subject areas’.  So how do we … Continue reading

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That’s a pretty data model – what does it do?

In my previous post, I asked what was in a model, so before I dive deeply into discussing how we do business-level modelling, a cautionary tale: I once produced an elegant conceptual model for a complex business.  The structure managed … Continue reading

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Data governance – so what’s in a model?

As this is my first post on the Evaxyx blog, I thought I’d kick off with a subject close to my heart: data modelling.  I’ve been involved with data and information in various ways since the early 1990s, and believe … Continue reading

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