Problem:
Considering your business experiences and understandings, how important is a sound DBMS to your organization? How closely do your information technology professionals need to work with professionals from the various business functional areas (such as HR, finance, marketing and product development)? How much technical expertise in the field of IS and IT does a competent manager need?
Address these issues, as well as, any pertinent examples of instances where you have seen poor database management practices or poor knowledge management impact your organization. How has the Ladder of Inference broken down? What about examples of good management?