Are you struggling to find the data that you need to support your business activities?  Are you concerned that people may be using the wrong data for their business activities?  Are you having difficulty understanding the data that you do find in your data resource?  Are you frustrated over documenting that understanding in a manner that is readily accessible to anyone in the organization?  If the answer to any of these questions is Yes, then you need to read Data Resource Guide to help identify, understand, access, and use the appropriate data.

Most public and private sector organizations today have no formal, single location for the complete documentation of their data resource that is readily available to everyone in the organization.  Many organizations don’t even have a concept of how to design, develop, or manage a single repository containing an understanding all the data available to the organization.  Yet they are staking their business on those data.

Data Resource Data provided the complete data resource model for an organization’s Data Resource Data.  Data Resource Understanding provided a detailed description of how to thoroughly understand an organization’s data resource through those Data Resource Data.  Now, Data Resource Guide provides the detailed specifications for developing a simple, inexpensive, and effective way to document the data resource understanding and make that understanding readily available to anyone in the organization.

Michael Brackett draws on over half a century of data management experience to complete two trilogies for formally managing an organization’s data as a critical resource.  The Data Architecture Trilogy describes the development of a single organization wide data architecture for an organization.  The Data Understanding Trilogy describes the acquisition and documentation of understanding about all the data at an organization’s disposal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR          

Michael Brackett has been in data management for over 50 years.  During that time he has developed many innovative concepts, principles, and techniques for managing data.  He has written ten books and numerous articles on data management.  He is a prominent speaker at local, national, and international conferences and has become a legend in data resource management.  He has been a member of DAMA International since 1985 and established the DAMA International Foundation in 2004.  He received DAMA International's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 for his pioneering work in data resource management.  He is semi-retired and lives in a log home that he built in the Olympic Mountains near Lilliwaup, Washington.