Context first, before the Microsoft 365 reporting lolly-scramble.
A blog by Martin Erasmuson.
How prolonged and ineffective data strategy; poor data culture, and data-debt has led to organisational schizophrenia!, and what we can do about that.
A blog by Martin Erasmuson.
A blog by Martin Erasmuson
As we find ourselves in the thick of the 4th Industrial Revolution with the exponential growth of and demand for information at its core, the current COVID 19 crisis has thrown a spot light on antiquated information infrastructures. We stumble from crisis to crisis with severe consequences that seem obvious in hindsight, before reverting to our old way of thinking. As we step into a deeply uncertain future, is it finally time to admit to that uncertainty and implement a Military Grade Information Infrasructure that can respond to continuous change?
“We’re going to do,” said the manager “an organisation-wide data audit.”
“If you like, yes,” said the Information Architect.
“Will that help?” asked the manager.
“No,” said the Information Architect, and gave him a friendly smile.”
― Martin Erasmuson, Information Architect (adapted from ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
A Christmas Data Poem by Martin Erasmuson
Twas the night before Christmas, and through all the laughter
Things were a stirring, especially the data.
On spread sheets and web forms and RDBMS,
And the ones still on paper (still data no less).
And lakes filled with data of every description
And format with AI that sounds more like fiction.
IT Teams all nestled round beers and wines-red
While serverless-computing thoughts dance in their heads.
With backups all run on the servers with care
In the hope that DR isn’t needed this year.
Fingers-crossed for a digital transformation breakthrough
But where it is taking us, we don’t have a clue.
In this festive season I’m still sure of one thing,
Technology’s great; but data is king.
