van Haren, and Bart Verbrugge of Van Haren Publishing: I know that I have strong opinions on how/ what I want with the book - and I have probably tried your patience over and over. Then, of course, there are the people who graciously granted me interviews to use in this book – you are all heroes:
■ Marco van der Winden is manager of the corporate data management office at PGGM, a Dutch pension provider.
■ Marc van den Berg is managing director of IT and Innovation at PGGM, a Dutch pension provider.
■ Frank Harmsen is managing director at PNA and professor at Maastricht University.
■ Lisa Gaudette is director in the Office of Sponsored Programs and Research of Clark University.
■ Jan Robat is head of data quality management at ABN AMRO.
■ Fanny Vuillemin is senior data manager at AXA.
■ Céline Lescop is lead data architect at AXA.
■ Piethein Strengholt is principle data architect at ABN AMRO.
■ Eric D. Schabell is global technology evangelist and portfolio architect director at Red Hat.
■ Tanja Glisin is an experienced data management professional and frequent collaborator of the author of this book.
■ Norbert van de Ven is data governance consultant at Hot ITem.
■ Stijn Hoppenbrouwers is professor of Data & Knowledge Engineering at HAN University of Applied Sciences, Arnhem and assistant professor at Radboud University Nijmegen.
■ Jeroen Cloo is partner at Novius Adviesgroep.
■ Kiean Bitaraf is data management consultant at Deloitte.
■ Raymond Slot is managing partner at Strategy Alliance.
■ Paul Heisen is senior enterprise architect at De Lage Landen (DLL).
■ Robin Vuyk is head of business architecture and design at PGGM, a Dutch pension provider.
■ Daan Riepma is a smart data consultant at Axians.
■ Ronald Damhof, “just a data-guy”, self-employed, often in the role of enterprise (data) architect in large (mostly public) organizations.
The book wouldn’t have been nearly as good without the help of Lisa Gaudette. Thank you so much for your patience, hard work, and grammar/ punctuation lessons. Whenever I thought we had cleaned up a piece of text, you always found more ways to make it better. I would also like to thank Mirjam Visser for her extensive review of the manuscript as well as the pleasant discussions we had on data management. Last but not least, I would like to thank my family for their support. I know I have been hiding behind my computer to finish the manuscript and wouldn’t have been able to make so much progress without your flexibility and support.
As a last remark, I would like to point out that a lot of time and effort went into checking the material. Any errors that remain are my own. I hope you find the book interesting and useful. Enjoy the read!
Bas van Gils
October 2019
3 DATA MANAGEMENT: WHY BOTHER?
3.1 A definition of data management
4.1 The center of the universe
4.2 DM and business process management
4.6 DM and enterprise architecture management
4.7 Philosophical considerations
