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Improve performance by better process definition
Do you understand your business processes?
Do your processes degrade your data?
How well do you understand your business processes?
Each individual process may be well documented, implemented and assured and even delivering great business performance, however, can these same processes be reducing your data quality?
(more…)Understanding data quality across organisations
An organisation that works in isolation and does not share data with other organisations is probably rare. Most organisations will collaborate with other organisations to some degree and will be providing data as part of this collaboration. So, what factors need are relevant when considering data quality across organisations?
When building a machine or structure, you will usually be assembling components supplied by many manufacturers. For this to work, the interfaces between components and items should meet agreed requirements. For example, if one organisation decided to make bolts with a different type of thread, it would be difficult (or perhaps impossible) to join different components together.
In a recent post I considered what is needed to understand data quality from an organisational perspective, however, what are the data quality implications when we have to use data across organisations?
(more…)Deliver winning performance by tuning your data machine
A good way to understand the impact of poor data practices on your organisation is to imagine the approach to data gathering, storage and exploitation as a machine – a data machine.
- What does your data machine look like?
- How well does it work?
- Is it a high performing machine?
Read on to find out more…
(more…)Conquer the data management maturity staircase
In my previous blogs I introduced the Data Management Maturity Staircase (above) and then the various maturity steps required to climb the staircase. In this blog we shall be looking at ways to make the changes.
(more…)Managing assets? Your team need AD4s!
If you are responsible for managing a portfolio of assets, then your team need AD4s to help them. What does the acronym AD4 mean? Well, it stands for Asset Data Dictionary Definition Document – quite a mouthful, hence the shorter term AD4. What is an AD4? Well, read on….
(more…)Understanding the data management maturity staircase
In my last blog I introduced the Data Management Maturity Staircase (above). In this blog I shall look at the steps that make up the staircase.
Introducing the data management maturity staircase
In this series of Blog posts I shall be introducing the ‘data management staircase’, what it means and the necessary journey over time to climb the steps to becoming ‘Excellent’.
Julian Schwarzenbach guests on the 30th episode of The Data Strategy Show
Julian Schwarzenbach recently appeared on the 30th episode of The Data Strategy Show. The conversation with Samir Sharma covered a wide range of topics including:
- Julian’s background in engineering and data
- The strapline “Data Doesn’t have to be difficult”
- Why we are still talking about Data Quality
- How business functions need to take responsibility for their data and data governance activities
- Julian’s approach to valuing data
- His book: Managing Data Quality: A Practical Guide and the idea of the “Data Zoo”
- The new British Standards he has launched around big data.
- The work he does at the British Computer Society
Why asset data is more challenging than ‘normal data’?
Increasingly, organisations are recognising the importance of good data management and how it can improve organisational performance. Managing data across large (and small) enterprises can be challenging, there are a range of standards and approaches that provide guidance applicable to many sectors.
Asset intensive organisations include refineries, power stations, substations, railways, water treatment and distribution networks, highways etc. Asset owning organisations typically have large portfolios of assets with huge variety of types, construction and configuration, ages, condition and performance. Such organisations need to manage their complex portfolio of assets over extended periods of time.
(more…)Why is data frequently stated as one of the top 3 challenges for asset intensive organisations?
What approaches to data work best for asset intensive organisations?