Actionable Information Governance Part 2

[Steve Bennett]

Following up on my recent blog discussing the 26 capabilities that underpin Actionable Information Governance, I want to talk briefly about some organisational ideas that can help you deliver these capabilities more effectively. Once again, what I present is based on my experience and observation of what works with my practitioner colleagues. These ideas are based on my belief that leading the use of analytics in the organisation needs to be the business itself and that this leadership must be under the support of at least 2 C level executives. Finally, there should be a Centre of Excellence and two communities of practice: Business Organisation The Data and Analytic communities are your data and reporting stewards. They are the people responsible in your organisation for data quality and delivering analytic insight to your decision makers. These roles may be part- or full-time, and they may form real or virtual communities. They do however, have to be practitioners. The Data and Analytic communities of practice are each responsible for delivering the following capabilities: Access Monitor and Analyse Discover and Explore Quality Classify Data Metadata Management Data Profiling. As you will see below, some of these capabilities are jointly managed and delivered. This is because modern analytics often involves a technology component that is complex and requires multiple skills, some of which are unlikely to be available within the communities of practice. The third business group are the hard-core of your analytic specialists. Gartner and others refer to this as the business intelligence competency center, or BICC for short. The term is too 'nerdy' for the organisations I have worked with, but regardless of what you call it, the capabilities it must deliver are pretty well agreed on by analytic practitioners. These specialists are there to empower the communities of practice, and coordinate and optimise the IT efforts made in support of these communities. This centre of excellence is responsible for delivering the following capabilities: IM Strategy BI Tool Evaluation and Selection Content Management Collaboration and Change Implementation and Training. The final (and vital) role is for the senior executive group and this is to own and exercise governance of information. IT may not lead analytics under this model but they do have vital roles that underpin the business effort. There are 3 main groups for this, under the direction of the CIO: IT Organisation The Enterprise Architects deliver the technology blueprint: Information Architecture Application Interfaces Data Warehouse Design. The Application Developers build and enhance the major technology components of the analytic platform: IM Application Development Data Profiling Project Management. The emphasis here is on the technology. The business communities of practice are responsible for agreeing and delivering standard analytic practices. These are the analytic methods employed to deliver insight. For example, it is common for organisations to model customer acquisition and attrition behaviours. Modelling can be done through a variety of techniques and processes but if you want to be able to reliably compare models (i.e. compare different areas of the...



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