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Process and Security

Potential At Work - Turn an application data migration initiative into a data governance pilot. As an essential part of any new enterprise application deployment or system upgrade, a data migration can accomplish so much more than simply transferring data. Use it as an opportunity to improve the quality of existing data and apply new, higher standards to the information powering your organization. It can also be an ideal pilot for a data governance program. Data governance is an evolving discipline. It is aimed at giving organizations enterprise-wide control over the quality and security of their data by consistently applying standard processes and methods. Governance programs should focus on: Improving data quality Protecting sensitive data Encouraging information sharing Providing business-critical data Managing information throughout its lifecycle "Here’s the problem with many data migration efforts: too often you move bad data from your legacy environment into your shiny new system," says Rob Karel, vice president of product strategy at Informatica.

Regulation

Business Regulations. Survey: Collaboration Tools Disconnected from Business Goals. Woburn, MA – January 30 – Axceler®, a leader in enterprise collaboration governance, administration and migration solutions, today announced the results from its “SharePoint Governance Maturity Benchmark” survey, which finds that while businesses understand the value of SharePoint, a lack of governance is resulting in poor alignment with business goals, low user adoption and ultimately, reduced return on SharePoint investments. Of the 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals surveyed over the past year, although 67.2 percent said SharePoint governance is extremely or very important to their business, only 26 percent admitted to having a very well-defined governance strategy, with 51 percent admitting their business has not implemented any form of governance strategy.

Find out more in this infographic: Collaboration Tools Disconnected from Business Goals For more information on the survey, please download the full results.

Storytelling for Change

Cynefin Framework. Welcome. Yala is the Guna word for homeland, sanctuary, safe place to talk. This is a site about using the Internet to make it safer to talk. In other words, the Yala is a web-based platform for collaboration designed to aid the emergence of collective intelligence. We need to collaborate whenever we are faced with "wicked problems". Wicked problems are not understood until after the formulation of a solution; they have have no stopping rule. Solutions to wicked problems are not right or wrong. Every wicked problem is essentially novel and unique. Economic, environmental, and political issues are classic examples of wicked problems.

Collaborative strategies aim to engage many stakeholders in order to find the best possible solution for all. The Yala is one such collaborative approach, which engages those people who are affected in the planning process. How to create a Yala: Re-injecting ethics and morality - Yala World. The last few years have been a tale of two disasters – one financial, the other political – both characterized by moral failures that have undermined public trust in our systems of power. For these were not just crises of illegality, but of the morality of individuals, businesses, institutions and governance structures.

Structures which have been exposed as flawed or more-shockingly non-existent. This has ignited a call to re-inject the vocabulary of morals into public discourse and place human values at the center of public policy. Yet people are reluctant to talk about ethics and morality because it feels like pontificating in a world in which many no longer accept a pontiff. Ethics and morality are seen as tarred with the same brush of gobbledegook as religion. How do we found this vital discussion on this world not the next? Lucy's story Lucy decided not to go the University route. This attracted the attention of a direct competitor. Teaching ethics Bottom Line? Risk management. The strategies to manage threats (uncertainties with negative consequences) typically include transferring the threat to another party, avoiding the threat, reducing the negative effect or probability of the threat, or even accepting some or all of the potential or actual consequences of a particular threat, and the opposites for opportunities (uncertain future states with benefits).

Certain aspects of many of the risk management standards have come under criticism for having no measurable improvement on risk, whether the confidence in estimates and decisions seem to increase.[1] For example, it has been shown that one in six IT projects becomes a 'Black Swan', with cost overruns of 200% on average, and schedule overruns of 70%.[4] Introduction[edit] A widely used vocabulary for risk management is defined by ISO Guide 73, "Risk management. Vocabulary. "[2] Risk management also faces difficulties in allocating resources.

Method[edit] Principles of risk management[edit] Risk management should: What the Sumerians can teach us about data. Things users don't care about. Herding Cats.