Author Archives: Ina Felsheim
What is Dirty Data Costing You?
Intrinsically, you know that you need good data. But how far do you need to go? What are the real costs incurred if you DON’T have clean data?
Can Information Governance Help Me Find My TV?
USA reported an interesting story about a musician who ordered a Westinghouse TV from Amazon (purchased from a third party provider). Some of you probably did that yourself over the holidays. He anxiously waited for the big box to arrive. Instead, a much smaller box appeared on his doorstop. Hmmm. Perhaps, he thought, this is a single component for the TV? Cables or a stand? Reasonable guesses.
Nope. Not a TV at all—instead, it was a black, semiautomatic gun. Imagine his surprise! Thankfully, …
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Need Help Selling Your Information Governance Initiative?
If you’re one of the many who isn’t yet tracking metrics and constantly reporting business value achieved through your efforts, you can use the Gartner whitepaper statistic below to help you quantify results. How many business initiatives did you u…
New York’s Policing Strategy Highlights Big Data Problems
Is anyone out there a fan of the new television series “Person of Interest?” In that show, a computer genius gathers big data from multiple sources (traffic cameras, crime reports, facial recognition, customs, etc.) to determine who is about to com…
Data Decay Can Silently Cripple Your Business [Infographic]
Zoominfo.com recently published a nice data decay infographic (a small version is included at the end of this post), that shows the level of master data change for business information. Why is understanding data decay essential? Many times organization…
Holding Out for an Information Governance Hero
In talking to customers last week, they again reinforced that information governance success is still on the horizon for each of them—and these were companies that had a dedicated data governance organization in place for years! Here are some of the …
Talent Retention Is Directly Related to EIM Success
This week I talked to two different customers who were going through organizational pain. In both cases, they had strong management who understood the value of truly treating information as an enterprise asset and, as a result, had the following in pla…
Health Workers Warned Over Protecting Patients’ Data
Nearly always, the first question I get asked in regard to information governance is “how do I sell the value? I know things are bad, but no one is willing to put money or resources behind the effort.”
An unpopular but effective technique is to le…
Who Notices When Data Is Missing? Your Customers Do.
Research agency Vanson Bourne surveyed 500 IT Managers and CIOs in the UK and found that: One-third of large companies in the UK have lost customers/new business due to missing data Eighty-eight percent of businesses saw data as a strategic asset to th…
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Business + IT = Success
Although it’s tempting to ignore it, IT, you still need the business side to have a successful information governance initiative.
Lots of times, customers ask me how mature the EIM market is, especially around information governance. I understand th…
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