Create a Data Management Roadmap
Streamline your data management program with our simplified framework.
- Effective data management requires a cross-functional approach that engages both the business and IT.
- Despite the growing focus on data, many organizations struggle to develop an effective strategy for managing their data assets.
- Effective data management is more than just a technical solution. It requires a change in culture from the business and investments in resourcing, technology, and process.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Data management is not one size fits all: Cut through the noise related to data management and create a strategy and process that is right for your organization.
- Take a data-oriented approach: People stop thinking about data and the “art of the possible” when you bring up business functions. Maintain a data focus during a project’s planning, delivery, and evaluation stages.
Impact and Result
- Use this blueprint’s approach and roadmap results, to support your organization in building a practice that prioritizes plans and actions that best address opportunities for managing business risk and value.
- Create a culture of collaboration that will allow the plans and visions for your data management practice to maintain momentum and be sustained over the long term.
Create a Data Management Roadmap
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should create a plan for establishing a business-aligned data management practice. Review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Align with the business
Understand the business’s vision for data and identify the role of the data management team in helping to realize these plans.
2. Plan for the future
Create a roadmap for your data management practice that aligns to your organization’s current needs for data and its vision for how it wants to use data over the next 3-5 years.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.3/10
Overall Impact
$99,850
Average $ Saved
28
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
CIRCOR International
Workshop
10/10
$619K
16
Reiter Affiliated Companies
Workshop
10/10
$61,979
10
Archtexx Consulting GmbH
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
120
Clyde & Co LLP
Guided Implementation
10/10
$85,741
20
Caerus Operating LLC
Workshop
9/10
$34,088
5
ROLTA AdvizeX
Workshop
10/10
$30,989
20
Cloud and Things Inc
Guided Implementation
9/10
$2,458
N/A
Town of Apex
Workshop
9/10
$4,958
3
Parsons Inc.
Workshop
8/10
$10,000
5
Real Estate Council of Ontario 1
Workshop
7/10
$100K
10
Kentucky COT (Commonwealth Office of Technology)
Workshop
8/10
$61,462
55
Gateway Technical College
Workshop
10/10
$371K
44
Ucla Anderson School of Management
Workshop
10/10
$123K
60
LGM Financial Services
Workshop
10/10
$47,500
10
Sunflower Bank
Workshop
10/10
N/A
90
Auckland Transport
Guided Implementation
7/10
$30,989
10
St Vrain Valley School District
Guided Implementation
10/10
$12,395
10
Midmark Corporation
Workshop
7/10
$11,156
10
Werner Co.
Guided Implementation
9/10
$123K
5
Fusion Superplex
Guided Implementation
10/10
$1M
60
Cross Country Mortgage, Inc.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$61,462
20
Canadian Utilities Ltd.
Workshop
9/10
N/A
N/A
Inmarsat Solutions Canada
Workshop
8/10
$1M
N/A
Leonardo DRS
Guided Implementation
9/10
$8,793
10
Mott MacDonald LLC
Guided Implementation
10/10
$1.77M
10
American National Insurance Company Inc
Workshop
8/10
$12,562
20
LPL Financial
Guided Implementation
10/10
$127K
110
City of Leduc
Workshop
8/10
$47,500
20
Morrison Hershfield Group Inc.
Workshop
8/10
$100K
32
YMCA NSW
Guided Implementation
8/10
$6,000
5
Onsite Workshop: Create a Data Management Roadmap
Onsite workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Develop Data Strategies
The Purpose
- Understand the business’s vision for data and the role of the data management practice.
- Determine business requirements for data.
- Map business goals and strategic plans to create data strategies.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding of business’s vision for data
- Unified vision for data management (business and IT)
- Identification of the business’s data strategies
Activities
Outputs
Establish business context for data management.
- Practice vision
Develop data management principles and scope.
- Data management guiding principles
Develop conceptual data model (subject areas).
- High-level data requirements
Discuss strategic information needs for each subject area.
Develop data strategies.
- Data strategies for key data assets
Identify data management strategies and enablers.
Module 2: Assess Data Management Capabilities
The Purpose
- Determine the current and target states of your data management practice.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clear understanding of current environment
Activities
Outputs
Determine the role and scope of data management within the organization.
- Data management scope
Assess current data management capabilities.
- Data management capability assessment results
Set target data management capabilities.
Identify performance gaps.
Module 3: Analyze Gaps and Develop Improvement Initiatives
The Purpose
- Identify how to bridge the gaps between the organization’s current and target environments.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Creation of key strategic plans for data management
Activities
Outputs
Evaluate performance gaps.
- Data management improvement initiatives
Identify improvement initiatives.
Create preliminary improvement plans.
Module 4: Design Roadmap and Plan Implementation
The Purpose
- Create a realistic and action-oriented plan for implementing and improving the capabilities for data management.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Completion of a Data Management Roadmap
- Plan for how to implement the roadmap’s initiatives
Activities
Outputs
Align data management initiatives to data strategies and business drivers.
- Data management roadmap
Identify dependencies and priorities
- Action plan
Build a data management roadmap (short and long term)
Create a communication plan
- Communication plan
About Info-Tech
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Try Our Guided Implementations
Get the help you need in this 2-phase advisory process. You'll receive 6 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation #1 - Align with the business
- Call #1 - Identify what data management means for the organization.
- Call #2 - Discuss the business’s strategic plans and establish a business context for data management.
- Call #3 - Determine data strategies.
Guided Implementation #2 - Plan for the future
- Call #1 - Discuss the results of the data management evaluation.
- Call #2 - Plan initiatives for data management.
- Call #3 - Create a roadmap and discuss next steps.
Contributors
- Michael Blaha, Consultant and Author, Patterns of Data Modeling
- David Birmingham, Senior Solutions Architect, BrightLight Consulting
- Mario Cantin, Chief Data Strategist, Prodago
- Nancy Couture, Delivery Enablement Lead, Datasource Consulting
- Mehrdad Novin, Senior Data Architect/Modeler Consultant
- Martin Sykora, Director, NexJ Analytics
- Kirti Shetty, Data Quality Business Delivery Manager, TD Canada Trust
- Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D, Board of Directors, DAMA International
- John Talburt, Chief Data Scientist, BlackOak Analytics