One Day at a Time
Tuesday, August 15th, 2000 TechnologyAs corporate America‘s need for quick access to accurate and refined data grows, there are more and more attempts to create the enterprise-wide data warehouse. Why is it, then, that we haven‘t moved beyond the attempt and actually made some progress, given what weÕve learned from all the false starts? It doesn‘t take much to see why projects fail. We repeatedly bite off more than we can chew, never get the real users of the data involved in the building process, and always end up waiting too long for any useful results-- results that never come, by the way, because the users were never really involved. Getting dizzy from going in circles? So what‘s a body to do? How do we solve this problem without sacrificing all of our business plans and strategies to the demons of untimely response-- or a flat-out inability to respond to market imperatives at all?
