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Be Certain, Be Trillium Certain

Solving the 4 most-asked questions in

Data Governance

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Overview

� Background

� Challenges with perceptions of data governance

� Using LEAN thinking

� Making it relevant

� Practical approaches to the 4 most asked questions in Data

Governance

1. How and where do I start?

2. How do I define standards and business rules?

3. How do I get the business to be engaged and supportive?

4. How do we demonstrate the business value of our efforts?

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The Data Governance “Black Hole”

� There are many reasons why data governance programmes

struggle to gain traction

� Perception is..

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� Lack of understanding across the organisation

� Failure to link to business processes

A rebel without a cause…?

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Challenges with Data Governance perception

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Extra workNo link to

business value

Fear (of any

repercussions)

“LEAN” thinking can help…

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..identify the “hidden factory” in your organisation

� Known process but activity is hidden or not understood

� Multiple hidden factories can exist within a business

Growth

Efficiency

Transparency

Impact

Money

Time

Resource

Waste

What is a Hidden Factory?

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BUT HOW?

� A Data Governance Programme must be seen to be:

� Relevant

� Measureable (in terms of impact)

� Beneficial to business

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A change in perception is required?

Four questions

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1. How/Where do I start

� Structures are needed but are NOT

the first step

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� Understand the

“why”

� Locate the

“hidden factories”

� Map data problems to business

processes

� Understand who is involved

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1. How/where do I start?Review the process, data flows & stakeholders

Map out the data flows for key processes,

Data domain Originators Modifiers Responsible exec Data Steward (s) Consumers

Organisation Sales Sales, Finance Head of CRM Sales (super users) Sales, Marketing

Finance, Legal, BI/IT

Contact

Candidate

Product/service

Location

Then understand the stakeholders,

Stakeholder group for data domain

Will be subject to

process change

Accountable for

DQ improvements

& monitoring

Involved in

agreeing data

standards

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1 - How to define where to start?

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Build case to proceed – Pilot – gain buy in and momentum

Understand the hidden factories or pains of the stakeholders in terms of Risk/Cost/Efficiency

Identify & engage stakeholders

Understand key data elements& link to critical business processes

2 - How do I define standards and business rules?

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Asking business

stakeholders to document

their rules will NOT work

Need to enter into a

dialogue with the data

stakeholders

Take data anomalies to

business stakeholders

Determine impact on process

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2 - How do I define standards and business rules?Involve stakeholders in a dialogue regarding their needs

1. Baseline profiling

2. Custom profiling

3. Dashboards

Baseline data & identify anomalies

Explore issues with SMEs

Determine impact & priority

Define need & corrective action

For an agreed set of key data elements driving a particular business process…

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3 - How do I get the business to be engaged and supportive?

� Make the Governance outcome relevant to the business

process that the stakeholder actually cares about

� Quantify impact on the business process

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Debt recovery

ratio

Lead conversion rate

Service delivery failures

(STP)

Translation is required

Regulatory &

legal compliance

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3 - How do I get the business to be engaged and supportive?Build the business case strands

� To ensure executive sponsorship and business

participation a “robust” business case is key

� Input will be required from multiple

departments

Risk

Management

Cost

reduction

Increase

revenue or

profit

Data Domain Consumer Tangible &

Measured

Type Description

Organisation

Data

Finance Y Revenue/

Cash flow

Invoices “bounced” as customer name not legal entity

Marketing N Brand & lead

gen

Email undelivered for promotional campaigns

Legal Y Risk -

compliance

Unable to confirm compliance due to missing

attributes

Sales* N Cost – sales

efficiency

Duplicates affecting targeting and call completion rates

IT Y Cost Additional storage required for duplicate organisation

entries

Example – Business case map

Tangible

Tangible

Tangible

Supporting

Supporting

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4 - How do we demonstrate the business value of our efforts?

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Communicate success

Gain advocates and create internal case studies

Measure any improvements in business term based on risk/cost/efficiency

Define and conduct “Pilot”

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4 - How do we demonstrate the business value of our efforts?Understand where the benefits lie and measure

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� Culture change, cross functional buy-in needed

� Senior cross functional sponsorship avoids “silos”

Sales owned IT owned Mixed usage

Data governance burden Data governance benefit

Benefit to DG participant

Benefit to others

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Establishing business value – three questions

The following questions must be satisfied to give any Data Governance effort

direction and purpose

� Target data governance on business pains

� Map the process & data in question

� Understand the stakeholders and their drivers/KPI

� Define a prioritization method based on business need

� Articulate relative importance to avoid stalemate

� Ensure executive level support to re-enforce

� Set measurement criteria (i.e. time, money, risk)

� Establish measurement capability & reports

� Communicate results to drive activity and buy-in

Why are we doing this?

How do we know what to fix?

How will we evidence our success?

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Summary

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Questions

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Thank you

Jon Asprey - VP, Strategic Consulting

jon_asprey@trilliumsoftware.com

Twitter: @jon_asprey

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Synopsis – For reference only [Remove at end]

� Solutions to the 4 most-asked questions in Data Governance

Data Governance continues to gain prominence in organisations across the world however the successful

implementation of effective data governance structures and processes is still a challenge to many. In this

session, using our LEAN approach, we will demonstrate practical solutions to the 4 most-asked questions we

see from organisations either beginning or evolving their data governance initiatives:

� How/Where do I start?

� How do I define standards and business rules?

� How do I get the business to be engaged and supportive?

� How do we demonstrate the business value of our efforts?

The session will use real world examples to illustrate how a pragmatic approach will remove the main barriers

and accelerate your governance programme to deliver real value.

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Alternative title is: Solving the 4 most-asked questions in Data Governance

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