Resources

Here's a list of presentations that are available for viewing. Presentations are PowerPoint or Adobe pdf unless otherwise noted. See How to View Instructions if you have problems reading them.

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2012 January

• Larry Goldberg, The Decision Model (pdf)

2011 November

• Kenneth Russell, The “Kinetic” Leader in the Changing Organization

2011 September

• Robert L. Armacost, Knowledge at KPMG

2011 June

• Dave McComb, 14 Ways to Use An Enterprise Ontology

2011 May

• Neil Hepburn, Love the Data: Three Stories About Data Management

2011 April

• Kathy Sowell, Enterprise Architecture’s Identity Crisis:a Caution Sign for the EA/IQ Partnership

2011 February

• Alana Boltwood, The Systematic Enterprise: How to synchronize EA, PM and other management methods

2011 January

• Karen Lopez presentations
• Kevin Estrabillo, Data Governance at Morguard Investments

2010 November

• Mark O'Gorman, EIM - Strategy to Pragmatic Delivery
• EIM Special Interest Group on Linkedin (an IRMAC subgroup)

2010 October

• Robert Hillard, Introduction to MIKE 2.0

2010 September

• Big Data, Dilip Khrishna (pdf)

2010 May

• Andres Perez, Data Certification: Information Stewardship for Effective Information Management

2010 March

• Mike Beauchamp, Adopting the DMBOK

2010 February

• Riaz Raihan, Leveraging IT to Drive Business Value

2010 January

• Karen López, Career Success in Data Management during Turbulent Times

2009 December

• Peter de Jager, Seven Problem Solving Strategies (wmv format - 40 MB)

2009 November

• Ed Unrau, Tales from an MDM Roadtrip
• Ayad Azzarouk, Canadian Tire strategy for getting in control of Master Data

2009 October

• Craig Van Spall, The Practice of Architecture

2009 September

• Jack E. Olsen, An Overview of Database Archiving
• Jack E. Olsen, Getting Started Using Database Archiving

2009 June

• Kevin Butcher, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”:Gaining Value from Regulatory Demands

2009 May

• Riaz Khan, TOGAF
• Bruce Miner, TOGAF, Data Architecture, SOA & Hockey Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (zipped)
• Bob Newell, Innovations in Database Technology

2009 April

• Neil Hepburn, Techniques for Collecting and Harmonizing External Data

2009 March

• Mark Cowan, Integrating a Maturity Model into the Data Management Roadmap

2009 February

• Dilip Krishna, Information and the Credit Crisis: Culprit? Savior? Both?

2009 January

• Ron Klein, Challenges in Metadata Integration: BMO Financial Group Case Study

2008 December

• Roger T. Burlton, Business Process Management

2008 November

• Peter Aiken, The Evolution of Data Management

2008 October

• Elizabeth Davis, Data Governance: In Practice and Over Time

2008 September

• Andres Perez, Quality By Design: Event Management "The Next Generation"

2008 May

• Kjell Wittmaack, Information Management in a Nutshell (pdf)

2008 March

• Darren Eddy, MDM_Challenges and Solutions from the Real World (pdf)

2008 January

• Mark Cowan, Building the EDM Roadmap
• Paul McInerney, WLM Methodology
• Shelley Perrior, Workload Management: HBC Case Study
• Sorina Faur, Workload Management: BMO Financial Group Case Study

2007 December

• Karen Lopez presentations
• Ronald G. Ross, What Business Rules Have To Offer Data Quality

2007 November

• Peter Aiken, M. David Allen, Burt Parker, Angela Mattica, Measuring Data Management Maturity: A Community's Self-Assessment - Paper
• Peter Aiken, Measuring Data Management Maturity: A Community's Self-Assessment - Presentation

2007 October

• Andres Perez, Quality By Design: Event Management for Effective Data Movement

2007 September

• Dilip Krishna, Compliance in Financial Institutions & Evaluating Enterprise Risk Information Management

2007 June

• Graeme Simsion, A Data Model Controversy - or 459 data modellers can’t be wrong (right?)  

2007 April

• Mark O'Gorman, IRMAC Survey Results

2007 March

• Michael H. Brackett, From Disparate Data to an Enterprise-Wide Data Resource  

2006 December

• Linda Mozewsky, Mark O’Gorman, Business and IT Collaboration through Data Stewardship at Canadian Tire  

2006 November

• Zenobia Deboo, Evolving from DW to BI : HBC’s Tale from the Trenches  

2006 October

• Greg Keeling, Developing and Implementing an Enterprise wide Information Management Program  
• Wayne Harrison, Information Classification, Security, Privacy and Metadata Challenges (you may find it necessary to save this file locally to view it) 
• Paul O'Hagan, Business Enabling Mission-Critical Data  

2006 September

• John A. Zachman, A Framework For Enterprise Architecture  
• John A. Zachman, Managing Complexity and Change  

2006 April

• W.H. Inmon, Bridging the Gap Between Unstructured Data and Structured Data

2006 March

• Karen Lopez, How to Win Friends and Influence People with Painless Data Model Reviews and Presentations (zipped)

2006 February

• Patrick Sue, Alonso Pérez, IT Strategy and Business Strategy: A Path to Alignment
• Dave Xie, Best Practices of ETL Processes Control

2006 January

• Todd Moore, Metadata Retrospective
• Andrea Malick, Marketing and Value of Metadata
• Harsh Pharasi, A Workable Solution for Basic Metadata
• John Tench, Marketing Metadata  
• Kjeel Wittmaack, Information Management - a holistic and structured approach  

2005 December

• Roger T. Burlton, Business Process Architecture: The Eye of the Hurricane
• R. Michael Pickering, Data Warehouse Architecture Best Practices

2005 November

• Bill Chadwick, Tuning into Your BI Clients' Needs

2005 October

• Dave McComb, The Semantic Web: What it is and Why You Should Care? Part 1
• Dave McComb, The Semantic Web: What it is and Why You Should Care? Part 2

2005 September

• David Hay, Metadata Map Part 1 (Introduction, Data, Activities, Location) (zipped)
• David Hay, Metadata Map Part 2 (Motivation, Parties, Events)  (zipped)

2005 May

• Peter Szirmak, From Chaos to Clarity
• Metadata SIG, Metadata presentation materials (zipped)

2005 April

• Stu Carty, MetaData Management 2005  

2005 March

• Paul Bassett, Professionalism Issues in IT

2004 November

• Lars Laakes, Data on the Inside versus Data on the Outside

2004 October

• Simon Miller, Ten proven steps to High Value BI Applications (html)

2004 May

• Ingrid Bredin & Wayne Harrison, Implementing Business Driven Information Management Practices From Policy to Metadata
• Jeff Mehlenbacher & Dan Bulsara, Building Success with Customer Data Management

2004 April

• Anita Mueller, Importance of Data Quality

2004 March

• Doug Harrison & Alex Resnick, The Value of Reporting Services  

2004 February

• Michael Burns, How to select a BI system  
• Dipendra Malhotra, Turning Data into Information with Real time Business Intelligence

2003 December

• Jim Purdy, What is Structured Content?

2003 November

• Scott Gow, Case Study: Implementing Search for the Government of Ontario
• Efrem Habteselassie, FAST Data Search

2003 October

• John Bruder, Business Architecture Concepts and Application
• Tim Daciuk, An Introduction to Text Mining

2003 June

• Cal Rosen, Business Intelligence: Falling Short  

2003 May

• Lee Sutton and John Morris, Introduction to Agile Development (zipped)

2003 April

• Ronald Allard, CA's Advantage Repository

• Stu Carty, Distributed Metadata Management

• Ken Dschankilic, Enterprise Application Integration

• Sam P. Selim, Utilizing ETL Tools - Can you afford not to?  

2003 March

• Ray Gates, Metadata Standards
• Michael Langton, The Role of BI in the Margin Optimization Process at MacKinnon Transport & Scordcarding: The Next Step

2003 February

• Dorothy Russel, An architectural introduction to Business Rules
• IRMAC Meta Data SIG - XML Presentation

2003 January

• Andy Astor, Enterprise Integration Trends and the Role of Web Services
• Alana Boltwood, Meta Data Best & Worst Practices

2002 December

• Karen Spector, An IRM Perspective on Privacy Compliance

2002 November

• Jason Brown, Data Mining: A Practical look at Data Preparation
• Todd Moore, IRMAC Meta Data Special Interest Group

2002 October

• Henry Feinman, Model Status for Success (zipped)

2002 September

• Karen López, If I Had a Million Dollars  
• John Hancock, The Challenges of OLAP in Very Large Data Warehouses

2002 June

• Peter Aiken, Trends in Meta Data/ Data Management  

2002 May

• Deborah Henderson, Corporate Data Architecture in a Federated World

2002 April

• Mark Langlois, Managing Enterprise Wide Applications in the 21st Century

2002 March

• Michael Ehling, The Secret to Success with Difficult (and not-so-difficult) People
• Robert Hickman, Data Quality… a venture into some personal experiences and insights

2002 January

• Dave Wallace & Alana Boltwood, eGovernment: Enabling Electronic Service Delivery with XML and Common Data Elements
• Karen López, Software Engineering in Canada

2001 December

• Boyd Carter, Nobody’s perfect, but a team can be
• Bill Chadwick, Business Intelligence Lessons Learned
• Gina Davidovic, Risk Management Stakeholder Analysis
• Stephen Shaw, Rules of Engagement, Tools and Technologies for Managing the Customer Relationship 

2001 November

• Diane Johnson, Improving Strategic Outcomes with Information Management
• Jim Wallace, EAI & Enterprise Data Availability
• Dr. Eva Swenson & Terry Riopelle, Turning Data into Information

2001 October

• Dorothy Russel, Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Knowledge Management, But Were Afraid to Ask
• Allan Hampson, Keystones for Business Improvement

2001 September

• Sandy McBride and John Bruder, Use of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture

2001 June

• Larry English, Elevating the Role of IRM for Business Effectiveness

2001 April

• Charlie Halpern-Hamu, XML and Publishing
• Jonathan Seller, XML and Distributed Computing

2001 March

• Scott Crosby, Privacy & Commerce 
• Mike Gurski, Privacy in a Wireless World 

2001 February

• Karen Lopez, Data Modelling Contentious Issues (html)

2001 January

• Todd Moore, Repositories Revisited  

2000 October

• Gary Saarenvirta, eMarketing and Analysing Web Stream Data
• Les Piotrowski, Populating the Zachman Framework using Structure 2000: A Case Study  

2000 November

• Uwe Stueckmann, Business Intelligence as a foundation for the eCRM ecosystem 

2000 September

• Brett Champlin, Enterprise Architecture: Infrastructure and Integration 

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