Non-existent or initial approaches to data can cause:
- Low data quality, which can lead to inefficient operations.
- Increased risk of data loss or data breaches.
- Low data trust throughout the organization, which can lead to business decisions being made based on feeling rather than empirical data.
- Increased instances of rogue data being used.
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Workshop: Data Architecture
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 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.
Our Data Architecture Research is designed to enable you to make yourself World Class. We do this by:
- Breaking down Data Architecture into digestible steps
- Providing actionable instructions to complete each step
- Providing all the tools and templates you need
We recommend that you do all the modules to improve your Data Architecture processes.
Module 1: Perform a Current State Assessment
The Purpose
- Establish the organization’s approach to data and its perceived data maturity level.
- Identify the business process that will be used in the data audit.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Issue identification.
- Prepared for the data audit, validating the scope, stakeholders, and participants prior to implementation.
Activities
Outputs
Determine the organization’s data value and risk.
- Data Value/Risk Assessment
Establish maturity level.
- Maturity Assessment
Determine what data sources contribute to a particular business process.
Review and assess the IT reports.
Identify data audit participants.
Included Resources
Module 2: Perform the Data Audit
The Purpose
- Establish a data audit framework.
- Understand how to effectively communicate with audit participants to obtain valuable information.
- Ensure internal policies are implemented to help minimize compliance issues.
- Identify where there are gaps in your data.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Focus your efforts on fixing major gaps in your organization’s data.
- Properly identify key data stakeholders and establish data ownership and responsibility.
Activities
Outputs
Create a data audit interview guide.
- Customized interview guide
Create a data source inventory.
- Complete Data Source Inventory
Conduct data audit interviews.
- Completed interviews
Identify gaps in the data and perform a root cause analysis.
- Identification of problem areas
Included Resources
Module 3: Develop Data Architecture
The Purpose
- Set architectural principles for the target architecture.
- Select new building blocks for your target architecture.
- Prioritize the building blocks.
- Reconcile the new building blocks and their ability to solve data issues.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Selected building blocks to solve the issues uncovered in the audit.
- Reconcile the solution against the problems uncovered in the audit.
- Refined the target architecture.
Activities
Outputs
Develop a target architecture.
- Determined architectural building blocks
Reconcile architecture.
- Updated architecture
Included Resources
Module 4: Create a Data Architecture Implementation Plan
The Purpose
- Define dependencies among building blocks.
- Group building blocks into initiatives.
- Draft a high level plan to implement the initiatives, taking cost/value and dependencies into consideration.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Establish initiatives, taking cost and value into consideration.
- Tackle the initiatives that have been identified with a realistic and manageable approach.
- Determine if the target state is going to meet the data asset management goals and objectives.
Activities
Outputs
Plan initiatives.
- Initiative plan
Develop a strategic roadmap.
Included Resources
Module 5: Establish Metrics for Success and Communicate the Plan
The Purpose
- Set initiative benchmarks to track success.
- Determine what initiatives need to be communicated and to whom.
- Have a plan to communicate initiatives to the organization.
- Communicate the results of the data audit, along with the short and long term plans, to the organization.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Avoid creating a document that is never used.
- Workshop summary.
- Defined metric and communication goals.
Activities
Outputs
Establish metrics.
- Metric tracking
Create a communication plan.
- Completed communication plan