Navigating the Labyrinth Quotes

“Organizations need to understand the impact of technology on data, in order to prevent technological temptation from driving their decisions about data. Instead, data requirements aligned with business strategy should drive decisions about technology.”
― Laura Sebastian-Coleman, Navigating the Labyrinth: An Executive Guide to Data Management

“One reason people conflate data management with technology management is that they often see data only in one place: the application from which they access it. They do not recognize that data can be separate from the applications where it is created or stored and that data has a lifecycle.”
― Laura Sebastian-Coleman, Navigating the Labyrinth: An Executive Guide to Data Management

“Failure to manage data is similar to failure to manage capital.”
― Laura Sebastian-Coleman, Navigating the Labyrinth: An Executive Guide to Data Management