While much of the discussion about information management centres on things that are new and exciting, it is easy to neglect some of the basic…
While touring in New Zealand to talk about my new book, I had the opportunity to do an interview on TV to explain why Information…
After submitting my final draft to Wiley at the end of last year, my wait is finally over! I have just received one of the…
Our profession is not a large one globally. In fact, a couple of years ago I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation that there are about 50,000…
When Ralph Kimball wrote “The Data Warehouse Toolkit” (published 1996) it defined Dimensional Modelling in a way that immediately demanded attention by data warehouse practitioners…
Well thought through online strategies can do so much more than deliver high quality web sites for internal and external users. They can dramatically improve…
Having taken the time to get a handle on your enterprise information by roughly dividing it into the four layers I described in my last…
As I described in my last post, the quantity of information being generated globally and within each of our organisations is absolutely overwhelming. All good…
Richard Wray, writing some time ago in The Guardian, pointed out that the volume of data held is now estimated at 487 billion GB. To…