Why There Shouldn’t Be A Single Version Of The Truth by Chuck Hollis.
From the post:
Legacy thinking can get you in trouble in so many ways. The challenge is that — well — there’s so much of it around.
Maxims that seemed to make logical sense in one era quickly become the intellectual chains that hold so many of us back. Personally, I’ve come to enjoy blowing up conventional wisdom to make room for emerging realities.
I’m getting into more and more customer discussions with progressive IT organizations that are seriously contemplating building platforms and services that meet the broad goal of “analytically enabling the business” — business analytics as service, if you will.
The problem? The people in charge have done things a certain way for a very long time. And the new, emerging requirements are forcing them to go back and seriously reconsider some of their most deeply-held assumptions.
Like having “one version of the truth”. I’ve seen multiple examples of it get in the way of organizations who need to be doing more with their data.
As usual, a highly entertaining and well illustrated essay from Chuck.
Chuck makes the case for enough uniformity to enable communication but enough diversity to generate new ideas and interesting discussions.