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Jill Dyché is an internationally recognized author, speaker and business consultant. She is a partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting, a professional services firm that focuses on enterprise data issues.
Prior to co-founding Baseline, Jill worked for pioneering technology vendors Teradata and Computer Associates. In 1991, she relocated to Paris, France, which served as a base for her consulting work with companies such as Daimler, Royal Assurance and the French national railroad. Returning to the U.S. in 1993, she helped grow Baseline from a data warehouse services firm into an acclaimed information integration provider. She is responsible for key client strategies and industry analysis in the areas of data governance, business intelligence (BI), master data management (MDM) and customer relationship management (CRM). She also counsels boards of directors on the strategic importance of information investments. Executives from companies including Charles Schwab, Verizon and Microsoft have relied on Jill for advice on data management planning and execution.
Jill's first book, e-Data (Addison-Wesley, 2000), has been published in six languages. She is a contributor to Impossible Data Warehouse Situations: Solutions from the Experts (Addison-Wesley, 2002), and her book The CRM Handbook (Addison-Wesley, 2002) is the bestseller on that topic. Jill's work has been featured in major publications and websites such as SearchDataManagement.com, SearchBusinessAnalytics.com, SearchCRM.com, Computerworld, Intelligent Enterprise, Information Week, CIO Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune and Newsweek.com.
Jill's latest book, Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) , was co-authored with Baseline partner Evan Levy and shows the business breakthroughs achieved with integrated customer data. The book features case studies from Royal Bank of Canada, Intuit, AARP, ING Insurance and Amgen, among others.
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Contributions from Jill Dyché, Partner and co-founder, Baseline Consulting
- Do you need to gather requirements for MDM projects?
- What’s the best way to conduct an MDM implementation?
- What ever happened to PIM and CDI software?
- What are the most common MDM project pitfalls to avoid?
- Launch data governance project without adopting MDM?
- Tips for managing system and data sprawl issues
- Should pharma companies invest in MDM services?
- Is linking master data and transactional data a trend?
- Basic steps for circumscribing and managing master data
- How to include data governance in an MDM development
- Public-sector case studies: Building a strong MDM business case
- What are some key decentralized data storage issues?
- How to use data jurisdiction in a successful data governance program
- Ensuring referential integrity in an MDM hub, transactional database
- What's the cost of developing PIM software internally vs. externally?
- What exactly is data governance and what falls under this category?
- Six criteria for master data management (MDM) tool evaluation
- Can we leverage existing data quality tools for an MDM program?
- Is it better to have a centralized or decentralized master data structure?
- How important are the different styles of MDM architecture?
Data Management Strategies for the CIO