28th January 2018 marks the 60th anniversary of the iconic LEGO® brick.
As I was raised close to the LEGO headquarter in Billund, Denmark, I also remember having a considerable amount of LEGO® bricks to play with as a child back in the 60’s in the first decade of the current LEGO® brick design. At that time the brick was a brick, where you had to combine a few sizes and colours of bricks into resembling a usable thing from the real world. Since then the range of shapes and colours of the pieces from the Lego factory have grown considerably.
Master Data Management (MDM) went into the 2nd decade some years ago as reported in the post Happy 10 Years Birthday MDM Solutions. MDM has some basic building blocks, as proposed by former Gartner analyst John Radcliffe back in 00’s and touched in the post The Need for a MDM Vision.
These blocks indeed look like the original LEGO® bricks.
Through the 2nd decade of MDM and in coming decades we will probably see a lot of specialised blocks in many shapes describing and covering the people, process and technology parts of MDM. Let us hope that they will all stick well together as the LEGO® bricks have done for the past 60 years.
PS: Some if the sticking together is described in the post How MDM, PIM and DAM Stick Together.
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