Recommended Key Initiative Plan

These 9 initiatives have been found to elicit the most significant measurable impact for professionals in this role.

Create a Data Management Practice

Ideally, the right information should go to the right people, at the right time. However, 58% of organizations list "accessing relevant, timely, or reliable data" as their biggest obstacle.

Download Research

Activities

  • Establish business context for data management
  • Determine the role and scope of data management within the organization
  • Build a data management roadmap for the short and long term

Benefits

  • A data management practice makes the most of data, which is a key asset
  • Achieve a unified vision for data management between the business and IT

Improve Data Governance

92% of companies believe that data governance is worthy of ongoing investment. Get the right data to the right people at the right time with an enabling governance structure.

Download Research

Activities

  • Establish a collaborative framework for the data governance program
  • Develop governance initiatives based on business need and value
  • Create committees and roles for embedding data enablement in the organization's culture

Benefits

  • Get at the heart of business and IT needs to enable shared insight
  • Effectively communicate the positive changes of data governance to break down political barriers

Restore Trust in Your Data

United States Postal Service wasted $1.5 billion on sending mail to the wrong addresses. Cutting corners on data quality has serious bottom-line implications.

Download Research

Activities

  • Detail the business context (vision, objectives, drivers, and key data subject areas)
  • Conduct a root-cause analysis of data quality issues
  • Conduct current and future state assessment of data quality practice

Benefits

  • Prioritized improvement roadmap that addresses both the data and practices around data
  • Obtain concrete steps to cleansing a key data domain

Modernize Data Architecture

56% of financial firms put siloed, legacy data architecture as one of their largest data challenges. Step into the future while learning from the past with our approach to data architecture.

Download Research

Activities

  • Define your current data architecture
  • Model the impacts of the current data landscape on your legacy platforms
  • Build a roadmap to take from traditional to modern data architecture

Benefits

  • Define and clearly communicate a single, consistent, and authoritative view of an organization's data
  • Formulate a roadmap for incremental delivery of data initiatives

Optimize Data Integration Practices

34% of CFOs see data integration as an essential but under-invested business operation.

Download Research

Activities

  • Interview the business and IT to understand data integration needs
  • Identify applicable integration patterns as reference architecture
  • Develop an implementation plan and introduce governance into data integration

Benefits

  • Pattern-based approach to data integration to accelerate implementation
  • An actionable plan to implement data integration and ways to sustain it

Develop a Master Data Management Strategy

Companies with a successful MDM strategy had customer retention rates of 91%, compared with 62% for those without. Translate your master data into revenue with MDM.

Download Research

Activities

  • Build a common IT and business vision for MDM
  • Capture the business needs and data domains that require an MDM solution
  • Construct a program to establish and maintain MDM governance

Benefits

  • Identified single source of truth for your critical data
  • Accountabilities between business and IT for ongoing management

Build an Extensible Data Warehouse Foundation

66% of businesses reported a shortening of their "decision window" in 2014. Invest in a data repository that gets the right data to the right people at the right time.

Download Research

Activities

  • Create your technology and data warehouse foundation
  • Identify your specific data warehouse pattern
  • Create the framework for iteratively adding additional data sources

Benefits

  • Injecting agility provides a framework for a scalable data warehouse that can respond to business changes
  • Clear definition of how data assets will be effectively delivered to users

Build a Business Intelligence Strategy

95% of organizations report data and analytics keep them on par with or ahead of their local/global competitors. Create a comprehensive strategy that facilitates data-driven decision making.

Download Research

Activities

  • Analyze current BI usage, user perception, and artifact inventory
  • Undergo a structured BI requirements discovery process
  • Envision a BI target state with our recommendations and build a BI strategy to get there

Benefits

  • Holistic understanding of how users need to be supported from strategic and technical perspectives
  • Sustainable roadmap for improvement rooted in BI practice, not just technology

Leverage Big Data by Starting Small

Over 90% of the data that exists today has been created in the last two years alone. Big data is becoming simply data and is more approachable than ever; identify your differentiating use case today.

Download Research

Activities

  • Identify your maturity level for incorporating big data
  • Identify and refine killer big data use cases
  • Structure a big data pilot project to demonstrate big data value and possibilities

Benefits

  • A focused pilot project translates the potential of big data into real value in your organization
  • A quick win with a pilot project lays a foundation for enterprise-wide adoption
1 / 9
  • 1. Create a Data Management Practice
  • 2. Improve Data Governance
  • 3. Restore Trust in Your Data
  • 4. Modernize Data Architecture
  • 5. Optimize Data Integration Practices
  • 6. Develop a Master Data Management Strategy
  • 7. Build an Extensible Data Warehouse Foundation
  • 8. Build a Business Intelligence Strategy
  • 9. Leverage Big Data by Starting Small

Data Management & Governance

Featured Blueprints

Select Your Data Platform

October 26, 2021

Data platform selection should be based on common best practices and, at the same time, be optimized for the organization’s specific needs and goal...

Understand the Data and Analytics Landscape

August 27, 2021

The key to landscaping your data environment lies in ensuring foundational disciplines are optimized with a recognition for the interdependency amo...

Establish Data Governance

June 28, 2021

The amount of data within organizations is growing at an exponential rate, creating a need for organizations to adopt a formal approach to governin...

Establish an Analytics Operating Model

May 10, 2021

Self-serve analytics is not simply transitioning IT-driven analytics to the business. Organizations are struggling to understand what's involved in...

Create and Manage Enterprise Data Models

January 27, 2021

Models represent the real world and make it more understandable. Data models play the same role and are a powerful communication tool for the IT pr...

Build Your Data Quality Program

November 18, 2020

Read this blueprint to understand Info-Tech's data quality methodology and why having quality data is essential for modern organizations.

Build a Reporting and Analytics Strategy

November 13, 2020

BI drives a new reality. Uber is the world’s largest taxi company and they own no vehicles; Alibaba is the world’s most valuable retailer and they ...

Build a Data Pipeline for Reporting and Analytics

November 02, 2020

Data management has distinct phasing. Fitting all phases inside a single data warehouse environment creates an unmanageable monster. Instead, think...

Browse Topics

Big Data
Business Intelligence Strategy
Data Management
Enterprise Integration

Resources

Job Descriptions

View all 14 Job Descriptions

Tools

View all 72 Tools

Templates & Policies

View all 106 Templates & Policies

Enterprise Information Management

Featured Blueprints

Run Better Meetings

October 28, 2021

The pandemic introduced many to the importance of running meetings well, whether they are held in person, remotely, or in a hybrid delivery model. ...

Effectively Use SharePoint as Your ECM Solution

January 26, 2021

The newest evolution of SharePoint is the content file cabinet to the business’ everyday Office productivity tools, with a huge menu of possibiliti...

Build a Digital Workspace Strategy

September 22, 2020

The most important aspect of implementing a digital workspace is organizational change management. To truly take advantage of these advertised bene...

Implement a Content Curator Playbook

July 31, 2019

Instead of viewing enterprise content management as a system which stores content that is accessible to everyone, think of it as the organization’s...

Establish a Communication and Collaboration System Strategy

May 23, 2018

Focus on creating a streamlined set of tools that users need and want. Shape demand for these supported tools by engaging with end users long after...

Embrace Information Lifecycle Management in Your ECM Program

April 21, 2017

Not all information assets are created equal; you need a structured approach to handling your organization’s information assets from creation to de...

Right-Size the Governance Model for Your ECM Program

January 05, 2017

ECM success does not come out of the box with an ECM solution. Concerted efforts are required on an ongoing basis to establish, enforce, and improv...

Migrate to Office 365 Now

May 31, 2016

Often, the IT manager, director, or even the CIO cannot determine or comprehensively identify how the applications, services, and capabilities with...

Browse Topics

Collaboration Platforms & Tools
Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Information Management

Resources

Job Descriptions

Tools

View all 30 Tools

Templates & Policies

View all 38 Templates & Policies

Visit our COVID-19 Resource Center and our Cost Management Center
Over 100 analysts waiting to take your call right now: 1-519-432-3550 x2019
© Info-Tech Research Group | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy