This is what data management nirvana looks like:

When the question starts with "Where is the data that tells us...

• ...how many members we have?
• ...who is on that committee?
• ...what are the attendance numbers for our upcoming event?
• ...what Wes's email address is?

The answer is always the same: "It's in the database."

Not "It's on Joanne's desktop" or "Larry has that in a spreadsheet" or "It's on a shared drive." But "It's in the database."

That's what data management nirvana looks like.

How close are you?