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Subject: Client question

Here's a good one for you. I received this email recently from a client and I need your input. I will not bias this by adding my own--I really want to hear from you. Note that this is edited to protect the privacy of the company and the individuals.
Here is the email:

“I reached out to you via email (after having attended one of your conferences in New York) and reading a lot of your research.

I am the Vice President of [the company]’s Data Warehouse Technology group. My business partner is the business lever of our enterprise data warehouse.

We have accepted a mandate from many of our business partners to facilitate a process for defining a corporate data strategy (CDS). We have agreed to take the lead on helping the corporation develop a CDS, by i) hosting working sessions to move the vision forward, and ii) moving the message up to our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) at [the company].

Specifically, the CDS would address data management on a much broader scale, and it would encompass policies, standards, procedures, roles and responsibilities for data management, corporate data model, process steward, data ownership, meta data management, data quality and standardization over and above what we do in [company name], data architecture, data access, data security and privacy, etc. Currently we are seeking executive sponsorship for our CDS work.

We also thought that it would be important to obtain lessons learned and to talk to some industry experts about our efforts -- what lessons do you know others have learned and what direction/guidance, if any, do you have? We would welcome any input specific to this topic as we believe external validation of our efforts is critical to our success.”

I will be happy to add my own input to this entry later but, first, I want to hear from you. Please comment on this request. You have good ideas and we can all benefit from them.

Thank you!

  Posted by Claudia Imhoff on February 15, 2005 10:37 AM |

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