Sunday, April 23, 2006

3:30 pm - 6:45 pm

Level: Intermediate

Do you dislike the politics in your company? Have you been frustrated by the people aspect of your data management initiatives? Often the failure of data management is due not to the lack of technical skills, but a lack of support – support that can be gained only through applying people skills and navigating a complex corporate environment. This workshop will help you be more effective in working with others to implement and promote your company’s information and data management goals. Key topics include:

• Identifying and working with your allies and opponents
• The importance of language – written, spoken, and body
• Making human nature work for you, not against you
• Real-life situations and how to handle them

Complement your technical skills by strengthening your people skills. Come prepared to participate and have fun while learning – this is a very interactive session. Leave with solutions tailored to your situation and data management objectives.

Danette McGilvray specializes in information quality management to support key business processes around customer satisfaction, decision support, supply chain management, and operational excellence. Her projects include enterprise data integration programs, data warehousing strategies and large-scale ERP data migrations for Fortune 200 organizations. For over ten years, she led information quality initiatives at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies.

An accomplished program manager and facilitator, she is a respected expert on data profiling, metrics, benchmarking, data stewardship, and tool acquisition and implementation. Danette is an invited speaker at conferences throughout the US and Europe, and she is a member of DMReview.com’s Ask the Expert panel. She has been profiled in PC Week and was an invited delegate to the People's Republic of China to discuss roles and opportunities for women in the computer field.