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Well, let's not mention planetary alignments, but I spent the day on researching MDM or Master Data Management - a system "to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official, shared master data assets."

The bit that perked my interest was that the IT department (cue joke from ceebs) should be the Custodian of such a system. And then I thought about Chris Cook's LLP Custodians, and then I realised the seeds of corporate destruction had been sown.

When organizations can become noospheric, traditional management and investment become irrelevant, and the rental on privileged information no longer payable. But I dream on...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 04:48:23 PM EST
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"irrelevant" also requires a lack of power, sadly.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 05:46:07 PM EST
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Most of my Left Wing friends own their own businesses and most of my Right Wing friends work for somebody else.  My 'off the top o'me head' conclusion is Left Wingers know they're getting screwed if they are not Self-Reliant while the vice is versa for RW'ers.

Not the CW, of course.

On topic #2:

MDM or Master Data Management - a system "to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official, shared master data assets."

Portrait of a man Not Going There.

by ATinNM on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 05:56:27 PM EST
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Most of my Left Wing friends own their own businesses and most of my Right Wing friends work for somebody else.  My 'off the top o'me head' conclusion is Left Wingers know they're getting screwed if they are not Self-Reliant while the vice is versa for RW'ers.

My "off the top o'me head" would be that your left-wing friends find hierarchies stifling and think outside the box, so they ended up starting their own businesses not to be self-reliant or to make a better living, but to retain their sanity and self-respect. Your right-wing friends find it easier to conform and to operate within a hierarchy and don't question received wisdom, so why should they feel uncomfortable forking for someone else?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 06:00:42 PM EST
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True.

Also they (and I) know shoveling cash to #@$^!'s who did @#%^@'ing all to earn it is dumb.

by ATinNM on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 06:07:55 PM EST
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In other words, you and your left wind friends are maladapted, chronic malcontents or vocational misfits.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 06:09:53 PM EST
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In other words, you and your left wind friends are maladapted, chronic malcontents or and vocational misfits.

FIFY

by ATinNM on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 06:19:22 PM EST
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left wind

Heh.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 06:34:14 PM EST
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The East Wind is Red, comrade:

by ATinNM on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 06:47:54 PM EST
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The Red army brass band?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 08:06:20 PM EST
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No idea who did it.  Apparently it was a required sing-song during the Cultural Revolution and until Mao croaked.  

Think it's a major hoot.  

by ATinNM on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 09:16:51 PM EST
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Well I may be biassed having worked in IT departments,  but who else are you going to want to have custody? They are going to have to have full access anyway, for all the backups etc. plus  they are more likely to have a grip on data protection and be ethical about privacy.  would you honestly trust a manager with one eye on the balance sheet to be custodian of such mission critical software startegy and planning? (it's IT, it's low totem pole stuff so if you have a general manager they are going to be young and fresh out of business school. apart from anything else, senior management is going to think that only young people understand computers, Young, fresh out of buisness school with buisness degrees. I've yet to meet one who it's possible to trust them with anything more mission critical than making the coffee)

Other people may think the other way, seeing IT as an obstacle rather than an enabler of performance, depends of course on the IT department, and what you want to do.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 09:09:12 PM EST
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...who else are you going to want to have custody?

That's true.  Somebody has to play Computer-Police and better if the IT Dept (who is going to get stuck dealing with the mess) then, say, the Marketing Dept.  

I worked at a company where every department got to chose what software they would use, what a disaster that was!

by ATinNM on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 09:21:54 PM EST
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oh god, I'd tried to forget working at one of those. trying to get apples fake windows printing protocols to play with Industrial HP printers hanging from a VMS fake windows NT 3.5 network over hubs that were of a different manufacturer than the switched rest of the network. (somehow that department happened to not only have grabbed the budget for its own equipment, but had also grabbed the budget for networking its own building <shudders> needless to say my dreams at the time featured now recently dead and sainted Apple luminaries and a selection of sporting Lumber that would have been the envy of many sporting teams that Mr Horse of this parish happily supports.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 10:08:37 PM EST
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LOL

Kept you off the streets and in the pub after work and on weekends, tho.

by ATinNM on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 10:37:10 PM EST
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true

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 10:49:17 PM EST
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