"It's information management Jim, but not as we know it"

Could these be the words of Chief (data) Engineer Scotty on board the Starship Enterprise? Enterprise information asset management that is! He'd be an avid reader of this channel if it made it out into Federation space :)

Welcome to the Christopher Bradley Information Asset Management Channel for the BeyeNETWORK. This channel is dedicated to end-to-end process of managing your information as a real asset. These processes (and the associated technologies) include:

-Asset discovery

-Information quality and profiling

-Data transformation and movement

-Information and process modelling

-Information and metadata repositories

-Information analytics and

-Governance

As an information professional have you ever heard any of these when discussing information management?

"It gets in the way".

"I don't need to do modelling, the package has it all".

If so, this channel is for you because that's the real world we live in and the areas I'll be discussing every month.

I hope you can join me!

I welcome your comments, questions and any suggestions you may have. Please e-mail them to me at chris.bradley@ipl.com

Christopher Bradley has spent almost 30 years in the data management field, working for several blue-chip organisations in data management strategy, master data management, metadata management, data warehouse and business intelligence implementations.  His career includes Volvo as lead database architect, Thorn EMI as Head of Data Management, Reader's Digest Inc as European CIO, and Coopers and Lybrand’s Management Consultancy where he established and ran the International Data Management specialist practice. During this time, he worked upon and led many major international assignments including data management strategies, data warehouse implementations and establishment of data governance structures and the largest data management strategy undertaken in Europe. 

Currently, Chris heads the Business Consultancy practice at IPL, a UK based consultancy and has been working for several years with many clients including a British HQ’d super major energy company.  Within their Enterprise Architecture group, he has established data modelling as a service and has been developing a group-wide data management strategy to ensure that common business practices and use of master data and models are promoted throughout the group.  These have involved establishing a data management framework, evangelising the message to management worldwide, developing governance and new business processes for data management and developing and delivering training. He is also advising other commercial and public sector clients on information asset management.

Chris is a member of the Meta Data Professionals Organisation (MPO) and DAMA, and has archived Certified Data Management Professional Master status (CDMP Master). He has recently co-authored a book Data Modelling For The Business –  A Handbook for Aligning the Business with IT Using High-Level Data Models. You can reach him at Chris.Bradley@ipl.com.