主数据管理中的非技术难题

与实施主数据管理所遭遇的技术难题相比，改变企业文化、让人们接受并使用这项技术要更困难得多。

主数据管理(Master Data Management ，MDM)是一个正在快速成长的领域。由于非常看好这个市场，Oracle、IBM、SAP都推出了此类产品，同时，很多系统集成商也纷纷给自己的产品贴上MDM的标签，提供各种解决方案。然而，对最终用户来说，要用好这项技术，选择合适的软件产品并成功地部署它仅仅是第一步。

MDM 是一门综合性的技术，它提供一系列方法和流程来保证整个企业最重要的那部分数据准确、完整和一致，而不论它位于企业的哪个部门、哪个系统、哪个数据库、哪个流程中或者哪个渠道中。然而，一个大型企业的经营活动要涉及众多部门，就必然涉及方方面面的关系。经验表明，要想让MDM项目成功，必须考虑这些问题，而且必须理顺这些关系。 (more…)

Time for Deep Lean

April 13, 2009 · Posted in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Lean Business Strategy
A guest posting by Andrew Dillion

Extraordinary times call on us to look again to the core of the Toyota revolution and how we can make it our own

Strange things happen in a crisis. Consider, for example, that some companies, in retrenchment mode, are cutting back on investments that not too long ago they were eager to make in learning and implementing the principles of the Toyota Production System. At least part of the market for improvement seems to be shrinking, in other words, at precisely the moment when just about everything in the marketplace seems to need improvement. (more…)