A machine that doesn't know how to remember
The enterprise produces knowledge all day and forgets what it wanted to know. A data model is the minimum shared truth that lets it remember.
The enterprise is a knowledge-producing machine that doesn’t know how to remember.
We implement platforms, tools, systems and processes to make information accessible, but we forgot what we wanted to know in the first place.
Data models go far beyond table schemas and entity-relationship diagrams. They’re about the minimum shared truth we need to represent consistently in order to afford understanding.
What do we actually need to know? Who needs to know it? Why does it matter?