Chapter 3

Identifying and Cataloguing Key Business Imperatives

Abstract

As an enterprise data management (EDM) roadmap effort gets underway, an organization almost always has at least one or two significant business initiatives in progress or are about to start that need to be considered along the timeline of the roadmap leadings toward the future EDM state. This chapter provides a concise sampling of the types of initiatives strategists and architects need to be aware of as they prepare for the EDM roadmap.

Keywords

Data
Enterprise Data
ERP
CRM
Customer Relationship Management
Supply Chain
Strategic Sourcing
TQM
Six Sigma
Data Quality
Enterprise Systems
Lean
Master Data
MDM

3.1. Introduction

The work accomplished by the tasks described ...

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