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Books on Data Management: a 5-Book "Starter Library"

At the request of colleagues and clients, we have compiled a standard set of useful books on the crucial topic of how to manage data assets. If you are looking to learn more about data management and related topics, consider getting this "5-Book Data Management Starter Library"

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Added by Jaime Fitzgerald on January 14, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

A Better Way to Mine Data

The good news, for marketers, is that data mining really can make a difference to most bottom lines. The bad news is that, despite what data mining can do, it is so often used so poorly that it is virtually useless.

In many cases, the data is a big part of the problem. Even in the most reputable companies, data is often “dirty,”—out of date or otherwise irrelevant. Most commercially available data mining packages lack the flexibility and functionality that real world marketers need.… Continue

Added by Chandan Pathak on October 16, 2009 at 5:34am — No Comments

The Politics of Data!

Companies collect so much data today and yet when you go looking for it you will often find barriers! So what’s wrong…If we were honest with ourselves, as professionals, we would admit what Rosabeth Moss Kanter suggested in 1979 in a famous Harvard Business Review article: that “Power is Americas last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want to it do not want to appear to… Continue

Added by Chandan Pathak on September 22, 2009 at 2:01pm — No Comments

Drowning in Data!

Companies around the world are literally drowning in data. A typical airline or retailer, for example, is collecting data from many operational systems and storing terabytes, if not petabytes, of data. But how closely do CMO’s and CIO’s actually work or are they often at cross purposes! In India and I am sure in other furiously growing markets as well, IT is so busy building the basic infrastructure to manage the business that they often ignore the strategic priorities that Marketing is trying… Continue

Added by Chandan Pathak on September 22, 2009 at 1:46pm — 2 Comments