CIO Wisdom II: More Best Practices

What's Next?

Assuming that you concur with the notions that

• structured data management is somewhat of a solved problem (at least at the departmental/data mart level), and

• there is benefit to increasing the level of value-add in the information management value chain as described above,

then the likely question you're asking is, What are the logical next areas of focus worth considering? Following are interdependent (and, in some cases, discrete) concepts that will be evolving (and be implemented en masse) in the near future.

Correlation of the Unstructured to the Structured

While the data warehousing community was evolving to solve the structured data management challenge, the continual expansion in importance of the Internet, intranets, email, ...