Data servicing a milestone task

I landed on a MDM assignment few years back and within a period of six months realized the importance and enormous complexity involved in a MDM initiative. MDM initiative is  not just about deploying and confugring a third party software or even write your own(if you have patience, time and money to do so) but it also involves adherence to standards, practises and principles. And also deals with transformation of human mind set and change in perception towards 'Data'. 

In todays world, enterprise are relying on combination of homegrown softwares which are written and matured over a period and also specialized third party softwares to perform specific function supporting variuos business like sales & marketing ,finance, operations, HR, supply chain, customer relation,service etc. All these complex systems are interlaced together and relies on various kind of data which flows from one application to other in various formats and provides desired optimization to business.

I still remember buying my first car few years back and along with it came a booklet mentioning various 'service' options available and schedule for it. And each time my washed car came out of the service station it felt like it got a a new life. Buying a new car was a great decission and timely maintenance of it  is imperative for smooth run and longitivity. For any IT project which involves development, configuration of an application and various data conversion and enrichment activities and once application and data are married it brings the desire output for business. And similar to the Car , MDM initiative is a great decission and timely servicing  of  both application(software,hardware) and data is imperative. To be successfull with MDM initiative a task must be created for 'Data Servicing' to undertake following  :

Both IT and business engagement is very critical for a success of this task and it should be a recurring task in MDM project plan.