A New Direction for Data Resource Management What is the future for data resource management? Considering the past practices and the current data resource situation in most public and private sector organizations, is a new direction needed for developing and managing the data resource? Is a new orientation toward improved data resource quality and increased business support needed? Data administration has not been an effective way to manage an organization's data resource. People have tried to administer the data with an orientation toward the data, rather than towards support of the business. Many organizations have been, and still are, oriented toward the technology aspect of information technology by trying every new technology that comes along hoping that it will help them administer the data and provide better business support. They are looking for that elusive silver bullet and are sacrificing future business support for current needs. A new direction is needed that focuses on managing data as a critical resource of the organization to directly support its business activities. The data resource must be managed with the same intensity and formality that other critical resources are managed. Organizations must emphasize the information aspect of information technology, determine the data needed to support the business, and then use appropriate technology to build and maintain a high-quality data resource that provides that support. In other words, organizations must manage data as a resource rather than administer the data. Data Resource Quality Data resource quality is a measure of how well the organization's data resource supports the current and the future business information demand of the organization. The data resource cannot support just the current business information demand while sacrificing the future business information demand. It must support both the current and the future business information demand. The ultimate data resource quality is stability across changing business needs and changing technology. This stability across change is the ideal that provides the foundation organizations need to become an intelligent learning organization--an i-organization. A high-quality data resource can only be achieved by developing a comparate data resource where the data are alike in kind, quality, and character, and are without defect. They are concordant, homogeneous, nearly flawless, nearly perfect, high-quality data. The data are easily identified and thoroughly understood, readily accessed and shared, and utilized to their fullest potential.Ref. :- http://www.tdan.com/view-featured-columns/5440
A New Direction for Data Resource Management
What is the future for data resource management? Considering the past practices and the current data resource situation in most public and private sector organizations, is a new direction needed for developing and managing the data resource? Is a new orientation toward improved data resource quality and increased business support needed?
Data administration has not been an effective way to manage an organization's data resource. People have tried to administer the data with an orientation toward the data, rather than towards support of the business. Many organizations have been, and still are, oriented toward the technology aspect of information technology by trying every new technology that comes along hoping that it will help them administer the data and provide better business support. They are looking for that elusive silver bullet and are sacrificing future business support for current needs.
A new direction is needed that focuses on managing data as a critical resource of the organization to directly support its business activities. The data resource must be managed with the same intensity and formality that other critical resources are managed. Organizations must emphasize the information aspect of information technology, determine the data needed to support the business, and then use appropriate technology to build and maintain a high-quality data resource that provides that support. In other words, organizations must manage data as a resource rather than administer the data.
Data Resource Quality
Data resource quality is a measure of how well the organization's data resource supports the current and the future business information demand of the organization. The data resource cannot support just the current business information demand while sacrificing the future business information demand. It must support both the current and the future business information demand. The ultimate data resource quality is stability across changing business needs and changing technology. This stability across change is the ideal that provides the foundation organizations need to become an intelligent learning organization--an i-organization.
A high-quality data resource can only be achieved by developing a comparate data resource where the data are alike in kind, quality, and character, and are without defect. They are concordant, homogeneous, nearly flawless, nearly perfect, high-quality data. The data are easily identified and thoroughly understood, readily accessed and shared, and utilized to their fullest potential.Ref. :-
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