by Angela Guess
Ann Hall recently wrote about the importance of having strong executive sponsorship behind any IT initiative, especially an MDM program. Hall writes, “If there was a list of 10 Commandments for Technology Initiatives, one of the commandments that would be at or near the top of the list would be ‘Get a good executive sponsor.’” Hall harks back to a quote from Deloitte Principal Bill Allison that he gave when Hall interviewed him about ERP: “Getting your top-level executives and their direct reports into the boat with you is the difference between success and failure. We don’t see big problems with technology so often anymore. But we do see implementations that become rudderless. The reason they become rudderless is the organizational pressures people are confronted with exceed the leverage they have. If you can get that leverage from the top, that situation never occurs. It’s intuitively obvious, but it can be difficult to execute.”
Hall continues, “And it isn’t just ERP. IT Business Edge’s Loraine Lawson kicked off her recent post on launching an MDM program by noting that ‘ideally, a master data management program will start with executive sponsorship and business buy-in.’ The ‘ideally’ was the key, with Loraine going on to offer a few suggestions for what to do if IT organizations had trouble recruiting business sponsors. The advice boiled down to illustrating the value of the proposed initiative, either by launching a simple pilot to show how it could improve the business or, in one interesting case, by making folks more aware of the “pain points” that could be removed.”
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[...] share and blend meaningful data from a variety of sources, data integration efforts need to be championed by a senior executive who is able to effectively communicate and extol the benefits for doing [...]
[...] share and blend meaningful data from a variety of sources, data integration efforts need to be championed by a senior executive who is able to effectively communicate and extol the benefits for doing [...]