Foreword xi
Introduction xvii
Acknowledgment xxv
Chapter 1 Executives Flying Blind 1
Slouching toward Customer Focus 1
Management Mandates Customer Intimacy 4
Data Back in the Limelight 8
What We Donât Know Can Hurt Us 17
CDI and CRM: A Rapprochement 28
Manager Doâs and Donâts 30
Chapter 2 Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration Defined 33
Delineating the Boundaries of CDI 34
A CDI Taxonomy 46
Components of CDI 55
Manager Doâs and Donâts 58
Chapter 3 Challenges of Data Integration 61
Dataâ"Always the Bridesmaid 62
Five Mainstay Challenges of Data Integration 71
Manager Doâs and Donâts 78
Chapter 4 âOur Data Sucks!â: The (Not So Little) Secret about Bad Data 81
Data Quality: The Movie 82
Bad Dataâs High Cost 83
Data Quality: Job Number Two 86
Data Quality and Master Data Management 89
Manager Doâs and Donâts 112
Chapter 5 Customer Data Integration Is Different: A CDI Development Framework 115
Not Your Fatherâs Development Methodology 116
Top-Down versus Bottom-Up 117
A CDI Implementation Framework 130
Change Management for CDI 140
Manager Doâs and Donâts 142
Chapter 6 Who Owns the Data Anyway?: Data Governance, Data Management, and Data Stewardship 145
Sturm und Drang of Data Ownership 146
The Truth about Managing Data as an Asset 148
A Case for Data Governance 150
Organizing around Data 156
Challenges of Adoption and Consensus 177
Coming Full Circle: Data Management and CDI 179
Manager Doâs and Donâts 180
Chapter 7 Making Customer Data Integration Work 183
Responsibilities of a CDI Architecture 183
Data Integration the Old-Fashioned Way 184
Data Integration via CDI 187
How It Works: Core Functionality of the CDI Hub 189
Eight Core Functions of Hub Processing 194
Synchronizing the Hub and Source System 200
Integrating Multiple Systems with the CDI Hub 201
Source System Data: Persistent Storage versus Registry Access 206
The CDI Hub in the IT Architecture 211
Manager Doâs and Donâts 217
Chapter 8 Making the Case for Customer Data Integration 219
Benefits of CDI Investment 220
Building the Business Case 233
Keeping the Saboteurs at Bay 242
Internal Public Relations for CDI 247
Manager Doâs and Donâts 250
Chapter 9 Bootstrapping Your Customer Data Integration Initiative 253
Getting CDI Right 254
Building the CDI Team 263
Fierce Conversations: Talking to CDI Vendors 267
Manager Doâs and Donâts 269
Glossary 271
Index 285