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Can your organization actually sustain data governance?
In 2007, data governance experts outlined seven critical questions organizations needed to answer before implementing master data governance programs.
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Digital
Why Boots Riley needs a distributor unafraid of mystery
This article was published in 2026 and references a historical event from 2024, included here for context and accuracy.
Digital
When platform economics demanded physical stores
In 2017, Amazon announced plans to open a bookstore in Manhattan's Time Warner Center.
Digital
Marketing is hard because we keep solving complexity with more complexity
The article pointed to shrinking budgets, rising customer acquisition costs, and an increasingly fragmented media landscape.
The Noise
Why loyalty programs work best on people who hate feeling wasteful
The coffee shop rewards card, the airline miles program, the pharmacy loyalty membership that promises ExtraBucks and personalized discounts.
Digital
New names don’t fix broken systems
CEO Dan Yomtobian framed the move as necessary evolution.
Digital
AI gave us perfect customer insight and we’re still asking the wrong questions
Rogers put it bluntly in interviews at the time: your customers are the most valuable asset your company has.
Culture
Social platforms can’t fix what your service broke
Somewhere between the promise of social media and its current reality, brands lost the thread.
News
Why email marketing keeps winning despite everyone saying it shouldn’t
Editorial correction, 15 September 2026: Unsupported first-person experience language was removed.
Psychology
8 rare signs you may carry a kind of beauty some people do not always recognize
Think about the quiet person at a party — the one who ends up in the corner having a deep conversation with whoever seems lost in the crowd.
Psychology
The art of small talk: 10 simple phrases that make people light up when you first meet…
I'll admit it: for years, I was terrible at small talk.
Psychology
If a person genuinely values you, they may display these 8 behaviors
A few years back, I found myself at a crossroads with a close friend.
Psychology
10 ways the media manipulates your perception of normal life
When your baseline for ordinary existence gets quietly shifted, you don't even know something has been taken from you.
Psychology
7 media narratives about happiness that may be keeping you unfulfilled
Tension: We consume more content about happiness than any generation in history and report feeling less of it than ever before.
Analysis
The direct message: How to reclaim your mind in an age of algorithmic confusion
We scroll past AI-conjured hoaxes, rage-bait headlines, and tribal propaganda before we’ve even had our morning coffee.
News
How rich are you? The net worth that defines upper, middle and lower class in America
In the United States, people tend to associate financial success with big salaries, fancy homes, and nice cars.