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The Digital Wasteland
Sending your people to the digital wasteland to die is not a great way to manage your empire. I'm sure we can all relate to the hallowing tales of workers venturing out into a collection of data, information, and knowledge that is in the state of FUBAR, only to never return. But how did this disaster happen in the first place?
There are basically two reasons why digital wastelands threaten otherwise 'irrigable' information systems.
- Lack of policy to collect data and control information.
- No reason or use for data and information collected.
The first reason leads to rampant hoarding of stuff. This leads to increased costs to maintain the stuff: measures to sort it, measures to access it, measures to transform it, and measures to keep it secure. And none of these are linear or sub-linear correlations to the amount of data you have.
The second reason is the all important human factor. In business, all things exist for a reason: to serve humans. If there is no human in the use case scenario, please go back to the drawing board. Sure, it is justifiable to collect things in the event that they are needed someday - the pack-rat logic. Or maybe the computer needs it for some of its calculations - after all, computers are SMRT and they need everything. But consider the costs mentioned earlier, and consider what is actually needed, your friend Mr. ROI will thank you later.
We are not advocating "not collecting information". We are advocating smart collection, with the human factor in mind, and supporting policies to turn your wasteland into a treasure island.
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