Business unit may be a term that comes into focus as we proceed, especially as we address the set of questions. Rich Forrester - Business units may go across departmental lines in order to answer questions. David Heise - We will have a common data warehouse that supports the separate business unit's needs. Data Warehouse Readiness Assessment Gary Dickerson distributed the results of the Data Warehouse Readiness Assessment the committee members completed at last meeting. The developers of this instrument have noted that this score is typical of the scores of organizations when first tested.
Scores typically go down when the assessment is completed a second time.
This is due to 'uninformed optimism' vs. 'informed pessimism'. On page 2, the scores to take note of are the extremely high or extremely low scores. The IT readiness score has always been low. We may need to explain what we're trying to do to the non-IT people and how it will benefit them. I was concerned about the data entry involved.