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" I strive to seek out the correct data to support business decisions, communicate it in a meaningful
way, and quantitatively measure its success or failure to guide future decisions. My favorite question to ask is
“Why?” and my favorite phrase to combat is “We do it like that because we’ve always done it that way”. "
Nice. I had one that was on about leveraging the synergy. I was tempted to interview her just so I could quiz in detail how she had done that.
" I strive to seek out the correct data to support business decisions, communicate it in a meaningful
way, and quantitatively measure its success or failure to guide future decisions. My favorite question to ask is
“Why?” and my favorite phrase to combat is “We do it like that because we’ve always done it that way”. "
That statement, albeit clumsy, is perfectly sound. It smells like it was cribbed from a technical article and then reworded to cover ones tracks.
It sounded like total bulltulip regurgitated by a moron.
I didn't know it was from a cv - I thought it was just MF.
Consider this. If a business lost it's core suite of applications, but still had it's data it could still function. Hire a team of data processing clerks, go to paper based. You could still function, albeit at an alarmingly reduced speed.
If the same business had it's core suite of applications but lost it's data? Game over.
Yet in pretty much every gig I have been in in 17 years the sheer contempt for data quality has been the one constant.
Around 3 gigs ago I did a data migration to SAP. I pointed out that the 16 million pound spend would be cheapened slightly if you didn't spend 6 months or so cleaning up the data. I was ignored and we loaded the same garbage to SAP. 16 million pound garbage in, garbage out system.
So imagine my surprise when I say this guy being interviewed for the SAP user group, waxing lyrical about data being the lifeblood of the business, and how he had worked extremely hard to cleanse the data and put in a master data management plan etc etc. This stuffed suit used to avoid meetings and when challenged just shrug and say "It's just dayda" in his phoney mid atlantic drawl.
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