Life Imitates Art
...or, All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from Dr. Strangelove...
Metadata management is an arcane discipline. Very arcane. It doesn't make for good cocktail party chit-chat, except for those of us who never were really good at that sort of stuff. Therefore, a metadata management initiative needs to have a really good marketing plan for any chance at success in the enterprise.
I just had a meeting that illustrated this point brilliantly. A tech support person understood what we were doing and how it would help, but had no idea we were doing it. Peter Sellers rang in my head...
"Of course, the whole point of (the program) is lost...if you keep it a secret!!! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?!?!?"
If you're implementing metadata management, tell everyone you know, even if you risk boring them to tears. You never know who might be enthusiastic about it...
Metadata management is an arcane discipline. Very arcane. It doesn't make for good cocktail party chit-chat, except for those of us who never were really good at that sort of stuff. Therefore, a metadata management initiative needs to have a really good marketing plan for any chance at success in the enterprise.
I just had a meeting that illustrated this point brilliantly. A tech support person understood what we were doing and how it would help, but had no idea we were doing it. Peter Sellers rang in my head...
"Of course, the whole point of (the program) is lost...if you keep it a secret!!! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?!?!?"
If you're implementing metadata management, tell everyone you know, even if you risk boring them to tears. You never know who might be enthusiastic about it...
posted by Steve Putman at 07:31
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