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7 articles published between September 2025 and September 2026. Where to start is below; the rest follow, newest first.
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One Owner Per Data Domain, Named — Or Three Versions of Every Number
Everybody agrees the customer master is a mess and everybody agrees somebody should fix it. The reason nobody does is not laziness. It is that the person who would have to say no to a colleague has never been named, and a rule nobody is authorised to enforce is a preference.
Data governance10 min read
One Owner Per Data Domain, Named — Or Three Versions of Every Number
Everybody agrees the customer master is a mess and everybody agrees somebody should fix it. The reason nobody does is not laziness. It is that the person who would have to say no to a colleague has never been named, and a rule nobody is authorised to enforce is a preference.
9 September 2026ReadIT governance7 min read
The Software You Are Paying For and Nobody Uses
Part of what your company spends on software goes to products nobody opens, seats belonging to people who left, and subscriptions on a personal credit card that will renew after the person who bought them has gone. Nobody knows how large that part is, which is the finding.
9 September 2026ReadData governance10 min read
UAE Data Protection as a Systems Problem: Where Personal Data Actually Lives
The legal summary is short and everybody has read one. The part nobody has done is the part that decides whether any of it is achievable: finding out how many copies of an employee's passport your estate is holding, and which of them anyone can delete.
9 September 2026ReadData governance9 min read
Decide Which System Holds the Truth, Before You Integrate Anything
Two systems disagree about a customer's credit limit and both are technically correct. The integration between them will not settle it, because an integration copies data and the disagreement is not about data. It is about which system was allowed to decide.
9 September 2026ReadIT governance12 min read
Who Can Change a Price at Two in the Morning
Most mid-market ERP fraud is not clever. It is enabled by a permissions decision taken in week three of the project to unblock a go-live, and never revisited. What segregation of duties actually means when you have eleven people in finance.
12 August 2026Read
Integration12 min read
The Integration Paradox
A highway connected a Spanish village to the whole country, and disconnected it from itself. Systems integration does the same thing when nobody decides which system holds the truth.
12 October 2025Read
Reporting14 min read
Why Your ERP Dashboard Is Lying to You
An Omani fisherman reads the sky, the wind and the water. Your dashboard reads whatever it was told to measure. The gap between those two is where confident, wrong decisions get made.
18 September 2025ReadAfter the reading
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