The Importance of IS Management

Prentice Hall, Inc.

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Managing Corporate Records: The Problem: Inconsistent Data Definitions

nProblem: data definitions incompatible from application to application, from department to department, from site to site, and from division to division

nReason: to get application systems up and running quickly, system designers sought data from the cheapest source or politically expedient source

nResult: different files with different names for same data and same name for different data