OK, I’ll admit it. Things have been a
little quite on my blog recently. Eighteen months is quite a time between
posts. Surprisingly, my lack of writing is not due to a lack of time – although
my second child did enter the world not long after my last blog entry. It’s
more a reflection of a change in circumstances for me, a move from hands
on designing and building business intelligence solutions to a role which
involves strategizing, positioning, promoting concepts and attempting to
envision future ways of working with information.
It’s amazing how not having specific,
tangible and concrete problems to solve, issues to deal with or systems to
build seems at first to rob you of anything worthy of sharing with the
community. But now I’m hoping that some of the concepts I’m working with and
the bigger issues that I’m chipping away at over time will carry interest for
at least some of you. I doubt I’m the only person facing these challenges and a
little sharing and exchange of opinions might be helpful.
Among other things, in the coming months I
expect to be trying to establish and build traction around data governance,
shape several data migration activities and find ways of better using metadata
in our business. If all goes well I’ll also get the opportunity to kick around
some data mining based R&D. I’ll endeavor to share what I can where I think
it might be of interest. Hopefully there’ll be a bit of two way communication
so please do drop me a line if you’ve tackled the problems I’m writing about or
have a view on the concepts I’m discussing. I’m a big believer in leveraging
multiple points of view where I can!
The first cab off the rank will be a blog entry
that combines the concept of a single source of truth, the band Nirvana and my
morning run. Keep an eye out for that post in the next day or so.
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