Comments on: The Financial Crisis and Your Database https://effectivedatabase.com/the-financial-crisis-and-your-database/ Making data management a revenue generator Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:43:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kevin https://effectivedatabase.com/the-financial-crisis-and-your-database/#comment-962 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:07:22 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2008/10/14/the-financial-crisis-and-your-database/#comment-962 Wes, I will disagree with you a little bit as to the real reason that the scenario you describe happens time and time again in associations (and probably lots of other kinds of organizations).

The EXCUSE is, “I don’t trust the data in the database.”

The REAL REASON is, “I didn’t create this database, I didn’t pick this database, I don’t ‘own’ this database, I don’t like the way this database works, and the hell with this database.”

This is why in so many organizations you find various departments scuttling off to create their own systems (sometimes surreptitiously). When confronted, they claim that they had no choice because they “don’t trust the data in the database” or something similar.

Assuming that the association has done its job and implemented a system that does what it really is supposed to do … and assuming that the association provides the real training and support that people need to be able to effectively do their jobs … there are still some individuals who will fight tooth and nail (and create all sorts of excuses) to do things THEIR way with the system THEY want.

At this point, it becomes the responsibility of senior staff to recognize what is really going on, and make this a management issue, not just a training issue.

]]> By: Wes Trochlil https://effectivedatabase.com/the-financial-crisis-and-your-database/#comment-961 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:17:17 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2008/10/14/the-financial-crisis-and-your-database/#comment-961 David, as my post says, they don’t trust the data in the database. Specifically, they don’t believe that the data they’re getting from the database is accurate or complete. And because the data is “bad” they don’t believe that the database itself can “do” what they need it to do.

]]> By: David M. Patt, CAE https://effectivedatabase.com/the-financial-crisis-and-your-database/#comment-960 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:17:34 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2008/10/14/the-financial-crisis-and-your-database/#comment-960 What is it they don’t trust about the database?

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