The authors advocate attention to smart data strategy as an
organizing element of enterprise performance optimization.
They believe that "smart data" as a corporate priority
could revolutionize government or commercial enterprise performance
much like "six sigma" or "total quality" as
organizing paradigms have done in the past. This revolution
has not yet taken place because data historically resides in the
province of the information resources organization. Solutions
that render data smart are articulated in "technoid"
terms versus the language of the board room. While books such
as Adaptive Information by Pollock and Hodgson ably describe
the current state of the art, their necessarily technical tone is
not conducive to corporate or agency wide qualitative change.
