| Conference
Day One: 5 February 2008 |
| Tuesday
5 February
09:15 - 10:15
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Data
Governance & the Holy Grail
Philip
Howard,
Bloor Research
If
we assume a five step maturity model for data governance then
most companies haven’t even started. However, of those that
have, almost everybody is still at one of the early steps of
maturity. Very few indeed have managed to reach step 3 and no-one
has yet attained a higher level. This means that most organisations
are either not implementing data governance at all or are at
only an early stage. At this point it is only nuts and bolts
issues that are important. However, as you advance further up
the ladder of maturity there are implications both for the business
and your IT organisation that may not be immediately obvious.
For example, one of the things that you would
want to know as a part of your data governance initiative
is where all of your data sources are. Now, once you know
all of that, IT has a much broader holistic view of the way
that data is spread around the organisation: what impact should
that, or could that have on the way that the IT department
controls access to information?
Perhaps
most importantly of all, data governance provides a cross-enterprise
interface between the IT department and the business that
can potentially be used to bring the two closer together.
But that in turn would have consequences: for example, it
might change the relationship between data management and
application developers within the IT organisation; once upon
a time it was the data analysts who were the top dogs in IT
departments but that hasn’t been so for many years – could
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Tuesday
5 February
14:00- 15:00 |
Information
Governance and Stewardship: Implementing Accountability for
the Information Resource
Larry
P. English,
INFORMATION IMPACT International
To optimize
the effectiveness of the management of information quality there
must be accountability for that resource in a way similar to
accountability for financial and human resources. To effectively
manage information there must be authorities, policies and procedures
to enable effective governance of information.
Mr. English
describes a natural governance approach to information along
with the seven business roles of information stewardship.
He describes why it is required to be effective in the emerging
“realized” Information Age. He dispels many misconceptions
about Information Stewardship and addresses:
- “Natural”
Information Governance
- “Natural”
Information Stewardship Roles
- Information
Stewardship Relationships
- Information
Stewardship and Application Development
- Effective
Governance Models for Information Stewardship and Quality
- Establishing
an Effective Information Stewardship and Governance Environment
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| Conference
Day Two: 6 February 2008 |
Wednesday
6 February
09:00- 10:00 |
The Business Case for
Customer Information Governance
Seán
Kelly, Managing Partner, Seán Kelly &
Associates
Far from
being impoverished most corporations exhibit signs of being
overwhelmed and engulfed in data. From this Niagara cascades
the conflicting, incomplete and fragmented reports that are
the direct historical legacy of the functional stove-piping
of operational information systems. This problem, the architectural
miasma, is largely the result of the piecemeal automation of
various business processes over four decades of computerization
and now presents many organizations with an apparently insuperable
obstacle to achieving any useful level of customer insight.
At the same time the race is on to rapidly develop customer
profiling and segmentation capabilities as more and more businesses
are demonstrating the superiority of differentiated marketing
over traditional mass marketing
techniques.
In this
keynote presentation Sean Kelly presents the business case
for achieving an integrated customer information governance
capability in the enterprise. He will explore the business
drivers as well as the organizational obstacles that will
be encountered and will share his extensive experience of
making this journey with many leading global enterprises.
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Seán
Kelly
Managing Partner
Seán Kelly & Associates |
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