Helping the right thing to happen

The Chief Technology Officer

You are drowning in data.  Systems/server monitoring (CPU, disk quota, latency, space, web pages...), network monitoring (bandwith, capacity, loading, usage...), security, access management and on and on.  You, too, have many power tools available but the limitation is that they don't talk to each and the data doesn't roll up into a comprehensive picture.

You, like the CIO, suffer from being the shoemaker's chld.  You have one or more people connected to each of your power tools and when an alert is generated, they will take some action.  What then?  What do your processes demand?

Your "big picture" of the status of the company's entire technology infrastructure is dependent on time and on accountability.  It will take time for all of the individual pictures to be consolidated into the picture you want.  By the time you get it it will be obsolete.  It will never be now.  Accountability is entirely dependent on your defined processes.  Without the processes, there can be no accountability, only approval.

You may hesitate to get involved in data management because you may see it as someone else's responsibility.  If you take a look at some of the other boxes on the org chart you will see that each has a responsibility for data management and they share a responsibiltiy on behalf of the company.  It will require a coordinated effort and some assistance.

You are a Data Management stakeholder.

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Leadership for change, management for effectiveness, governance for stability.