In chaos the­ory, the but­ter­fly effect is the sen­si­tive depen­dence on ini­tial con­di­tions; where a small change at one place in a non­lin­ear sys­tem can result in large dif­fer­ences to a later state. For exam­ple, the pres­ence or absence of a but­ter­fly flap­ping its wings could lead to … read more

We can debate and argue on this all day long but from my expe­ri­ence 80% of the orga­ni­za­tions get it all wrong in the Choice of Tech­nol­ogy. A choice of tech­nol­ogy is made many months before some­body actu­ally starts writ­ing the require­ment. My two very sim­ple ques­tions to … read more

What is the value of Infor­ma­tion? is often a topic of dis­cus­sion in con­fer­ences or meet­ings with clients and even with fel­low prac­ti­tion­ers in the Infor­ma­tion Man­age­ment space. The ques­tion though per­ti­nent does not have an easy or sim­ple answer. The prob­lem in deter­min­ing the value of Infor­ma­tion … read more

Match­ing is a very daunt­ing task for a Data Man­age­ment pro­fes­sional in an MDM solu­tion given the num­ber of options one has to choose from while con­fig­ur­ing a match engine. What kind of match­ing engine to use — Deter­min­is­tic, Prob­a­bilis­tic, Heuris­tic, Fuzzy or Math­e­mat­i­cal. If that was not … read more

Over the course of my career I had the good for­tune of work­ing on a vari­ety of tech­nol­ogy and across the dif­fer­ent archi­tec­tural lay­ers of an appli­ca­tion. I believe that to be a good Tech­nol­ogy Con­sul­tant one must posses a well-rounded sense of tech­nol­ogy which can only be … read more

The gen­e­sis of Exper­i­ments with Data goes back to my child­hood even before we owned a com­puter in our fam­ily. I dis­tinctly remem­ber my father bring­ing home a hand­held device which had few basic pro­grams loaded in. My father loved to trade stocks and would ask me to … read more