How Analytics as a Service Changes the Game and Expands the Market for Big Da...Dana Gardner
- Analytics as a service has expanded the market for big data by making advanced analytics capabilities accessible to smaller companies and organizations without extensive data architecture experience. This "democratization" of big data allows more firms to leverage big data technologies.
- Mobility and real-time analytics have become more prevalent, allowing organizations to incorporate streaming data sources and provide insights in close to real-time rather than through batch processes. This helps companies make faster decisions.
- Dasher Technologies helps clients address big data challenges holistically by considering people, process, and technology factors and providing solutions that optimize architectures for long-term growth needs. They work with partners like HP and its Vertica platform to deliver analytics capabilities and reporting applications.
You hear a lot of talk about technology making us more productive, but is that true? Research shows that productivity actually slowed to 0.5 percent between 2010 and 2014, despite recent technological innovations.
Technology has this great way of making things faster. That means we can handle more work. Unfortunately, that also means we can … handle more work. That’s a good thing. With so much on our plates, it’s crucial to automate as much work as possible.
Tightening labor markets, rising costs, and stiff competition are all reasons it’s more important than ever for organizations to increase productivity.
Download our e-book, “6 Reasons to Automate Your HR Processes” today!
Steve Leigh developed a custom Microsoft Access database for State Line Foundries that handles order entry, production scheduling, inventory control, and shipments. The database provides vital reports for the company's operations and has helped improve processes by using quality metrics. Customers provide many positive reviews, praising Steve's professionalism, communication skills, responsiveness, and ability to understand their needs and develop efficient database solutions.
Need for Fast Analytics Across All Kinds of Healthcare Data Spurs Converged S...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how a triumvirate of big players have teamed to deliver a rapid and efficient analysis capability across disparate data types for the healthcare industry.
Using a Big Data Solution Helps Conservation International Identify and Proac...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a conservation group, partnering with HP, is bringing real-time environmental data into the hands of policy decisions-makers.
How Veikkaus Digitally Transforms as it Emerges as the New Combined Finnish N...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how a culture of IT innovation is helping to establish a single wholly nationally owned company to operate gaming in Finland.
Stop Losing Time, Money and Opportunities.
Professional Advisors can reduce transaction costs,
and improve their case and cash flow.
"Value flow is the movement of clients, projects, tasks and knowledge along a visible path or pipeline."
How Analytics as a Service Changes the Game and Expands the Market for Big Da...Dana Gardner
- Analytics as a service has expanded the market for big data by making advanced analytics capabilities accessible to smaller companies and organizations without extensive data architecture experience. This "democratization" of big data allows more firms to leverage big data technologies.
- Mobility and real-time analytics have become more prevalent, allowing organizations to incorporate streaming data sources and provide insights in close to real-time rather than through batch processes. This helps companies make faster decisions.
- Dasher Technologies helps clients address big data challenges holistically by considering people, process, and technology factors and providing solutions that optimize architectures for long-term growth needs. They work with partners like HP and its Vertica platform to deliver analytics capabilities and reporting applications.
You hear a lot of talk about technology making us more productive, but is that true? Research shows that productivity actually slowed to 0.5 percent between 2010 and 2014, despite recent technological innovations.
Technology has this great way of making things faster. That means we can handle more work. Unfortunately, that also means we can … handle more work. That’s a good thing. With so much on our plates, it’s crucial to automate as much work as possible.
Tightening labor markets, rising costs, and stiff competition are all reasons it’s more important than ever for organizations to increase productivity.
Download our e-book, “6 Reasons to Automate Your HR Processes” today!
Steve Leigh developed a custom Microsoft Access database for State Line Foundries that handles order entry, production scheduling, inventory control, and shipments. The database provides vital reports for the company's operations and has helped improve processes by using quality metrics. Customers provide many positive reviews, praising Steve's professionalism, communication skills, responsiveness, and ability to understand their needs and develop efficient database solutions.
Need for Fast Analytics Across All Kinds of Healthcare Data Spurs Converged S...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how a triumvirate of big players have teamed to deliver a rapid and efficient analysis capability across disparate data types for the healthcare industry.
Using a Big Data Solution Helps Conservation International Identify and Proac...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a conservation group, partnering with HP, is bringing real-time environmental data into the hands of policy decisions-makers.
How Veikkaus Digitally Transforms as it Emerges as the New Combined Finnish N...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how a culture of IT innovation is helping to establish a single wholly nationally owned company to operate gaming in Finland.
Stop Losing Time, Money and Opportunities.
Professional Advisors can reduce transaction costs,
and improve their case and cash flow.
"Value flow is the movement of clients, projects, tasks and knowledge along a visible path or pipeline."
We've produced these exercises to help you design your day. Use them on your own, or with colleagues, to come up with a happier, more productive routine, to change your relationship with email, and hold better meetings.
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How New York Genome Center Manages the Massive Data Generated from DNA Sequen...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how the drive to better diagnose diseases and develop more effective treatments is aided by swift, cost efficient, and accessible big data analytics infrastructure.
Putting Buyers and Sellers in the Best Light, How Etsy Leverages Big Data for...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how Etsy uses data science to improve their buyers and sellers’ experience as well as theiown corporate destiny.
Booz Allen Hamilton created the Field Guide to Data Science to help organizations and missions understand how to make use of data as a resource. The Second Edition of the Field Guide, updated with new features and content, delivers our latest insights in a fast-changing field. http://bit.ly/1O78U42
Data Science is the competitive advantage of the future for organizations interested in turning their data into a product through analytics. Industries from health, to national security, to finance, to energy can be improved by creating better data analytics through Data Science. The winners and the losers in the emerging data economy are going to be determined by their Data Science teams.
An enormous amount of valuable data is out there -- waiting to be transformed into mission-driving insights. But to excavate those insights, we must first assemble the right data science team.
Big Data Management For Dummies InformaticaFiona Lew
This document is the introduction chapter of the book "Big Data Management For Dummies, Informatica Special Edition". It provides an overview of the book and its purpose. The book aims to provide a solution to struggling big data projects through the concept of big data management. Big data management is based on three pillars - integration, governance, and security - which provide processes and technologies to ensure data is clean, governed, and secure in order to discover insights and deliver business value from big data projects.
Review on the Ted Talk- What do we do with all this big data?TanayKarnik1
The document summarizes a Ted Talk about big data. It discusses how technology has advanced capabilities like the moon landing and genome sequencing. While we have more data than ever, data does not create meaning on its own - we must think critically about it. As consumers of data, we shape how technology impacts our lives and must ask hard questions to understand data rather than just counting things. Big data analytics can examine large amounts of information quickly to find patterns and insights, but managers still need teams to efficiently process and analyze data to make accurate, informed decisions that help businesses reduce costs, make faster decisions, and develop new products and services.
Rolta AdvizeX Experts on Hastening Time to Value for Big Data Analytics in He...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on using the right balance between open source and commercial IT products to create a big data capability for the long-term.
The document discusses leveraging technology for pest management businesses. It provides tips on using technology to increase efficiency and grow business. It discusses setting up an efficient office system using technology for tasks like managing workflow, accounting, and customers. The document also discusses using cloud computing and software as a service to access business programs online and handle data backups, security, and maintenance. It emphasizes using technology strategically to improve business rather than for its own sake.
The New Data Dynamics How to turn data into a competitive advantageFiona Lew
This document discusses the new data dynamics that businesses face as data becomes more abundant, diverse, and interconnected. It argues that businesses need to shift from an app-centric view of data to a data-centric view where data is prepared and optimized for many uses across applications. Adopting the principles of the new data dynamics, such as embracing diverse data sources, capturing relationships between data, and automating data management, will allow businesses to gain strategic advantages from their data.
Quantum computing has several potential applications such as solving very large calculations, improving security and optimization problems, and advancing machine learning and simulation. It harnesses quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement to store and process information using quantum bits that can be in multiple states at once. This allows quantum computers to massively parallelize computations and solve certain problems like integer factorization much faster than classical computers. However, quantum computers face challenges like decoherence that cause qubits to lose their quantum properties, limiting their size and capabilities. Researchers are working to develop different approaches to building larger, more useful quantum computers.
The document discusses the results of a study on the effects of a new drug on memory and cognitive function in older adults. The double-blind study involved 100 participants aged 65-80 who were given either the drug or a placebo daily for 6 months. Researchers found that those who received the drug performed significantly better on memory and problem-solving tests at the end of the study compared to those who received the placebo.
This resume is unconventionally formatted and lacks typical sections. It introduces the author, Saranyan, who currently works at Qualcomm designing chips after obtaining a PhD. They have published 15 works and have strong initiative, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. Saranyan has proficiency in many programming languages including Verilog-AMS, Verilog, C, C++, Perl, Java, C#, and Actionscript. They have experience managing people and projects.
Dr. H. Raghav Rao, AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure, Assurance and Security at the University of Texas, discusses how opportunity leads employees to unauthorized attempts on information systems applications in a financial institution.
We've produced these exercises to help you design your day. Use them on your own, or with colleagues, to come up with a happier, more productive routine, to change your relationship with email, and hold better meetings.
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@NokiaatWork and #SmarterEveryday.
How New York Genome Center Manages the Massive Data Generated from DNA Sequen...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how the drive to better diagnose diseases and develop more effective treatments is aided by swift, cost efficient, and accessible big data analytics infrastructure.
Putting Buyers and Sellers in the Best Light, How Etsy Leverages Big Data for...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how Etsy uses data science to improve their buyers and sellers’ experience as well as theiown corporate destiny.
Booz Allen Hamilton created the Field Guide to Data Science to help organizations and missions understand how to make use of data as a resource. The Second Edition of the Field Guide, updated with new features and content, delivers our latest insights in a fast-changing field. http://bit.ly/1O78U42
Data Science is the competitive advantage of the future for organizations interested in turning their data into a product through analytics. Industries from health, to national security, to finance, to energy can be improved by creating better data analytics through Data Science. The winners and the losers in the emerging data economy are going to be determined by their Data Science teams.
An enormous amount of valuable data is out there -- waiting to be transformed into mission-driving insights. But to excavate those insights, we must first assemble the right data science team.
Big Data Management For Dummies InformaticaFiona Lew
This document is the introduction chapter of the book "Big Data Management For Dummies, Informatica Special Edition". It provides an overview of the book and its purpose. The book aims to provide a solution to struggling big data projects through the concept of big data management. Big data management is based on three pillars - integration, governance, and security - which provide processes and technologies to ensure data is clean, governed, and secure in order to discover insights and deliver business value from big data projects.
Review on the Ted Talk- What do we do with all this big data?TanayKarnik1
The document summarizes a Ted Talk about big data. It discusses how technology has advanced capabilities like the moon landing and genome sequencing. While we have more data than ever, data does not create meaning on its own - we must think critically about it. As consumers of data, we shape how technology impacts our lives and must ask hard questions to understand data rather than just counting things. Big data analytics can examine large amounts of information quickly to find patterns and insights, but managers still need teams to efficiently process and analyze data to make accurate, informed decisions that help businesses reduce costs, make faster decisions, and develop new products and services.
Rolta AdvizeX Experts on Hastening Time to Value for Big Data Analytics in He...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on using the right balance between open source and commercial IT products to create a big data capability for the long-term.
The document discusses leveraging technology for pest management businesses. It provides tips on using technology to increase efficiency and grow business. It discusses setting up an efficient office system using technology for tasks like managing workflow, accounting, and customers. The document also discusses using cloud computing and software as a service to access business programs online and handle data backups, security, and maintenance. It emphasizes using technology strategically to improve business rather than for its own sake.
The New Data Dynamics How to turn data into a competitive advantageFiona Lew
This document discusses the new data dynamics that businesses face as data becomes more abundant, diverse, and interconnected. It argues that businesses need to shift from an app-centric view of data to a data-centric view where data is prepared and optimized for many uses across applications. Adopting the principles of the new data dynamics, such as embracing diverse data sources, capturing relationships between data, and automating data management, will allow businesses to gain strategic advantages from their data.
Quantum computing has several potential applications such as solving very large calculations, improving security and optimization problems, and advancing machine learning and simulation. It harnesses quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement to store and process information using quantum bits that can be in multiple states at once. This allows quantum computers to massively parallelize computations and solve certain problems like integer factorization much faster than classical computers. However, quantum computers face challenges like decoherence that cause qubits to lose their quantum properties, limiting their size and capabilities. Researchers are working to develop different approaches to building larger, more useful quantum computers.
The document discusses the results of a study on the effects of a new drug on memory and cognitive function in older adults. The double-blind study involved 100 participants aged 65-80 who were given either the drug or a placebo daily for 6 months. Researchers found that those who received the drug performed significantly better on memory and problem-solving tests at the end of the study compared to those who received the placebo.
This resume is unconventionally formatted and lacks typical sections. It introduces the author, Saranyan, who currently works at Qualcomm designing chips after obtaining a PhD. They have published 15 works and have strong initiative, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. Saranyan has proficiency in many programming languages including Verilog-AMS, Verilog, C, C++, Perl, Java, C#, and Actionscript. They have experience managing people and projects.
Dr. H. Raghav Rao, AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure, Assurance and Security at the University of Texas, discusses how opportunity leads employees to unauthorized attempts on information systems applications in a financial institution.
This document summarizes a presentation about the learning management system Edmodo. It introduces Edmodo as a free online platform that allows teachers and students to connect, share content, and access homework/grades in a safe and controlled environment. Key points covered include how Edmodo works, its security features like closed groups and archived communications, and best practices for teachers such as monitoring group membership and educating students on proper online etiquette.
This document discusses using elastic Jenkins to allow multiple Jenkins masters to utilize a shared cluster of ephemeral slaves hosted on virtual machines. It proposes abstracting the underlying compute resources and hosting multiple ephemeral slaves per actual VM to enable sharing slaves across masters. This solution would use Docker, Mesos, or Kubernetes to provide the abstraction layer and host both masters and slaves, which could be used together or separately.
El documento lista algunas de las maravillas del mundo reconocidas por la UNESCO, incluyendo la Gran Muralla China, Machu Picchu y el Taj Mahal. También describe otros sitios históricos como la Alhambra de Granada, el Castillo de Neuschwanstein y la Acrópolis de Atenas, destacando detalles sobre sus orígenes, características arquitectónicas y su importancia cultural.
Overview of Nordic activities at SXSW 2017 in Austin, TX, 2017 (March 10-19). Includes Expo visibility, additional activities (luncheons, pitch events, panels) and related conference talks and accepted music and film acts
In this presentation we look at why traditional mass media is in decline and the rise of social media marketing for business. We look at the major benefits of social media marketing and multiple case studies for the top 5 social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Blogs. We also look at the benefits of Social Media for Search Engine Optimization
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No need to wonder how the best on SlideShare do it. The Masters of SlideShare provides storytelling, design, customization and promotion tips from 13 experts of the form. Learn what it takes to master this type of content marketing yourself.
The Analytics Stack Guidebook (Holistics)Truong Bomi
Chapter 1: High-level Overview of an Analytics Setup
Chapter 2: Centralizing Data
Chapter 3: Data Modeling for Analytics
Chapter 4: Using Data
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Trích lời Huy - tác giả cuốn sách, co-founder & CTO của Holistics
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"Làm thế nào để thiết kế hệ thống BI stack phù hợp cho công ty mình?"
Có bao giờ bạn được công ty giao nhiệm vụ set up hệ thống BI/analytics stack cho công ty, rồi đến khi lên mạng google thì tá hoả vì mỗi bài viết, mỗi người bạn khác nhau lại khuyên bạn nên sử dụng một bộ công cụ/công nghệ khác nhau? ETL hay ELT, Hadoop hay BigQuery, Data Warehouse hay Data Lake, ...
Rồi bạn thắc mắc: Thiết kế một hệ thống analytics stack như thế nào là phù hợp với nhu cầu hiện tại của công ty mình? Làm thế nào để bắt đầu nhanh nhưng vẫn có thể scale được (mà không phải đập đi xây lại) khi nhu cầu dữ liệu tăng cao?
Thay vì chín người mười ý, bạn ước giá mà có 1 tấm bản đồ (map) có thể giúp bạn định vị được trong thế giới BI/analytics phức tạp này. Một tấm bản đồ cho bạn thấy các thành phần khác nhau của mỗi hệ thống BI là gì, lắp ráp nó lại như thế nào, và tradeoff giữa các cách tiếp cận khác nhau là sao.
Well, sau 2 tháng trời cực khổ thì team mình đã vẽ ra tấm bản đồ đó trong hình dạng một.. cuốn sách:
"The Analytics Setup Guidebook: How to build scalable analytics & BI stacks in modern cloud era."
Cuốn sách là một crash-course để bạn có thể trở thành một "part-time data architect", giúp bạn hiểu được rõ hơn về landscape analytics phức tạp hiện nay.
Sách giải thích high-level overview của một hệ thống analytics ntn, các thành phần tương tác với nhau ra sao, và đi sâu vào đủ chi tiết của những thành phần cũng như best practices cuả nó.
Cuốn sách được viết dành cho các bạn hơi technical được nhận nhiệm vụ phụ trách hệ thống analytics của công ty mình. Bạn có thể là một data analyst đang làm BI, software engineer được kêu qua hỗ trợ làm data engineering, hoặc đơn giản là 1 Product Manager đang thắc mắc sao quy trình data công ty mình chậm quá...
Cuốn sách cũng có những phần chia sẻ nâng cao như Data Modeling, BI evolution phù hợp với các bạn đã có kinh nghiệm làm BI lâu đời.
The document provides an overview and introduction to "The Analytics Setup Guidebook". It discusses how the guidebook aims to give readers a high-level framework for building a modern analytics setup by explaining the components and best practices for consolidating, transforming, modeling, and using data. The guidebook is intended for those who need guidance in setting up their first analytics stack, such as junior data analysts, product managers, or engineers tasked with building a data stack from scratch.
Business Analytics Lesson Of The Day August 2012Pozzolini
Business analytics involves collecting and analyzing large amounts of data to help companies make better business decisions. While data analysis has been used in business for over a century, it is only recently that companies have had the capabilities to analyze huge volumes of data in real-time and make predictive decisions. However, many companies still struggle with issues like poor quality data that can lead to inaccurate analyses. To successfully implement business analytics, companies need to focus on developing skills, ensuring accurate data, and having the right technologies to capture and make sense of their data.
The pioneers in the big data space have battle scars and have learnt many of the lessons in this report the hard way. But if you are a general manger & just embarking on the big data journey, you should now have what they call the 'second mover advantage’. My hope is that this report helps you better leverage your second mover advantage. The goal here is to shed some light on the people & process issues in building a central big data analytics function
Data Analytics Integration in OrganizationsKavika Roy
What is data analytics and how it is used by large organizations to support strategic and organizational decisions.?
Read the full article to know more
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How Accounts Payable Automation and Agility Drive Long-Term Business Producti...Dana Gardner
The document discusses how optimizing and automating accounts payable (AP) functions through intelligent automation can provide businesses several benefits. It can improve control over cash flow, payables, and financial situational awareness. This allows for better management during times of economic uncertainty. Automating AP processes can increase productivity, reduce processing times, and unlock billions in potential working capital benefits. It also enables skills shifts toward roles requiring more data analytics and strategic thinking to capitalize on insights from invoice data. Companies implementing AP automation solutions have seen over 40% reductions in invoice processing costs and gains in touchless invoice processing.
This document discusses a new approach to business intelligence called "rapid-fire BI" that aims to provide faster and more self-service analytics capabilities. The key attributes of rapid-fire BI outlined in the document are:
1) Speed - It allows users to access, analyze, publish, and share data and insights 10 to 100 times faster than traditional BI solutions.
2) Self-reliance - It enables business users rather than IT to independently access data, build reports and dashboards, and answer their own questions without waiting for developer support.
3) Visual discovery - It uses intuitive visual interfaces rather than complex queries, allowing users to easily explore data visually and gain insights through interaction with various chart types
This talk is an introduction to Data Science. It explains Data Science from two perspectives - as a profession and as a descipline. While covering the benefits of Data Science for business, It explaints how to get started for embracing data science in business.
Big Data Pushes Enterprises into Data-Driven Mode, Makes Demands for More App...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how creating big-data capabilities are new top business imperatives in dealing with a flood of data from disparate sources.
This document summarizes a presentation about scaling analytics in a maturing organization. It discusses focusing initially on data infrastructure, integrity, access and visualization. As the organization grows, processes need to change from everyone accessing data as needed to assigning roles like analysts and business users. Getting buy-in for changes requires pre-research and collaboration. Solutions should be shipped as minimum viable products and improved iteratively. Empowering others involves creating transparent processes and frameworks for teams to self-govern requests. The overall goal is to start with basic functionality and expand the system as the organization matures.
This takes a look at the architectural constructs that are used for building business intelligence systems and how they are used in business processes to improve marketing, better serve customers, and maximize organizational efficiency.
Building an Effective Data Management StrategyHarley Capewell
In June 2013, Experian hosted a Data
Management Summit in London, with over
100 delegates from the public, private and
third sectors. Speakers from Experian
and across the data industry explored the
challenges of developing and implementing
data quality strategies - and how to
overcome them. Read on for more information.
How to Modernize Your Data Strategy to Fuel Digital TransformationBrainSell Technologies
Learn how setting up a solid data foundation will position your company for predictable growth and scale by leveraging all the insights at your disposal.
Story They Call Me Mr. ProcessI have always been an organized p.docxsusanschei
Story: They Call Me Mr. Process
I have always been an organized person. Growing up, my room was neat, I kept track of my grades, my clothes were put away, and my bed was made. I have always felt a sense of discomfort if I did not know what was going on. In college, I quickly learned that organization was the key to success, and I carried the same philosophy into my professional career. Even fresh out of college and working in my first job as a manufacturing engineer, I was quick to offer suggestions to my more experienced colleagues regarding ways to implement processes to improve the efficiency of the organization. It did not take long before someone gave me the nickname "Mr. Process." Although the name was usually accompanied by some smirks, I actually liked the name and referred to myself the same way when I interviewed for jobs later in my career.
Mr. Process obviously finds processes to be important in an organization, and processes are absolutely vital in the management of enterprise content. Without well-defined processes, even good enterprise content will quickly tend toward chaos. Without these processes, there is no control over how data are modified and maintained. Data need to be managed. The importance of data management policies can be better understood with an example from my own work experience.
In the early 1990s, I joined a software development company as the vice president (VP) of product development. At the time, the company only had 13 employees, but they dealt with a significant amount of information because they had sales of $3.5 million per year and over 1 million customers. Enterprise content included a large customer database, large repositories of software source code and documentation, and reams of technical support information. The small staff was having difficulties trying to stay abreast of day-to-day operations and had consequently paid no attention to the management of these important collections of valuable content. Mr. Process did not like this at all.
During one of our weekly executive staff meetings, I raised the issue of enterprise content gone wild. I explained to the members of the staff how it was virtually impossible to locate and identify all of the software source code we were supposed to be working with. I offered examples of how our source code was being modified with proper controls and how it was difficult to even build products because of unauthorized changes. I told them how the technical support staff (who I was in charge of) were unable to find past support information on customers and how they were forced to enter the same information multiple times, and how they could not access historical information so they could learn from a knowledge base. These were just some of the complaints I lodged.
Of course, the chief executive officer (CEO) asked me what I thought should be done to improve the situation. When I responded "data governance" I just received blank stares from around the table. I ex.
Get Your Data Under Control in 5 Stepsgloverastera
This document discusses five steps for organizations to get their data under control: 1) implement a data governance structure, 2) refine software acquisition processes, 3) understand the full data lifecycle, 4) implement robust data management tools, and 5) initiate a data cleanup project. Taking these steps can help organizations achieve business outcomes like having a single version of the truth for analyzing data and improving data-driven processes.
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The author describes their experience rediscovering typewriting during lockdown in Australia, noting how using a typewriter forces focus and discipline in writing due to its lack of editing capabilities compared to computers, and provides tips for getting the most out of writing with a typewriter including double-spacing, using white-out tape, and choosing a portable model.
This is a presentation I gave for the UQ Business School (in conjunction with Stan Gallo of KPMG) at the Urbane Restaurant to a group of Queensland CEO/C-Suite people. These dinners are part of UQ's engagement with the business community - a relationship we value. This engagement ensures we don't get all locked up in our ivory tower.
Speakers at MNCs in Emerging Markets: International Human Resource Management...Micheal Axelsen
A seminar on MNCs in Emerging Markets will be held on March 5, 2014 at the UQ Business School Executive Venue in Brisbane, Australia from 3-5pm followed by a networking session. The seminar will feature presentations from practitioners and academics on topics related to international human resource management strategies in emerging markets. Speakers will discuss experiences managing HR from corporate offices to subsidiaries in emerging markets and case studies on global talent management, bridging gaps between practice and academia, and an MNC from an emerging market managing subsidiaries in developed countries.
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Bridging the Gap between Practitioners and Academics:
UQ Business School provides you with a unique opportunity to hear from renowned executive practitioners and academic experts in the field of international HRM, as they share leading-edge thinking, research and practice on the issues affecting international HRM within the emerging market regions.
There will also be a panel discussion, highlighting their insights and experiences gained from working within this sector.
Places for this event are limited.
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This document summarizes a 1974 paper by Tversky and Kahnemann on heuristics and biases in human judgment under uncertainty. It outlines three main heuristics: representativeness, availability, and anchoring and adjustment. For each heuristic, it provides examples of how people make systematic errors in probability assessments and predictions due to relying on mental shortcuts. Overall, the document discusses how intuitive judgments can be biased even when individuals are sophisticated, due to normal cognitive tendencies to rely on heuristics.
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And so today I am here to talk about work-life balance in your PhD. Work-life balance is one of the 'seven deadly sins' of academe. The PhD is the worst kind of study for work-life balance. More than any other form of study, the PhD requires hard work without direction and hard work without deadlines. Now let me be clear, in case you haven't figured it out yet, your PhD is hard work. Yet, I want to tell you today that hard work… is not your PhD. Just as it's not possible to get your PhD without hard work, it isn't possible to 'just' do lots of hard work and get a PhD. It needs to be the right kind of hard work.
This template prepared by Applied Insight Pty Ltd. The aconym "Sergeant Major Eats Sugar Cookies" belongs to the US Military and forms the basis of this document.
Ever since the pocket calculator replaced the adding machine and the slide rule, accountants have been debating whether today’s accountant is less skilled than those that went before. The increasing reliance upon legislative compliance and ‘best practice frameworks’ has ensured that the modern professional must rely on the computer to carry out their tasks.
This session presents preliminary results from Micheal’s research into whether the sophisticated use of computers (‘intelligent decision aids’) to assist with accounting and audit reduces the professional’s judgment capability – their ‘know-how’. Micheal’s research draws upon interviews with 59 public sector auditors to identify whether this ‘deskilling’ is occurring.
The session identifies the driving forces behind this ‘deskilling effect’ (‘technology dominance), outlines recent research into the phenomenon (and in fact whether it exists or not), and identifies risk factors that may be at play in deskilling yourself and your staff if you rely on computers too much. Potential strategies to reduce this deskilling effect are also outlined and discussed.
This session should be of interest to any professional that relies upon a computer to help them with their professional tasks.
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This document provides a business continuity plan for a small business that provides consulting services. It identifies key business functions and processes, potential impacts of disruptive events, resilience strategies, and recovery actions. The plan addresses how the business would continue operating and recover if it lost its IT infrastructure, office, or other assets due to events like fire or flood. It outlines backup procedures for important digital and physical assets and identifies alternative options and vendors that could be used to quickly restore operations.
Online Social Networking and the Workplace draft #3 finalMicheal Axelsen
This presentation discusses key issues such as how to stop your online life from affecting your career, your employer and perhaps your reputation!
Objectives include to identify and discuss how online social networking can affect the workplace, to discuss employer and employee rights and responsibilities, to provide practical hints and tips for maintaining appropriate privacy when using social networking websites, and to provide a framework for businesses to use in developing their policies and procedures for online social networking.
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Anchoring and Adjustment BiasMicheal Axelsen
This paper sets out the general basis for the
concept of the anchoring and adjustment bias.
Need to focus on anchoring and adjustment in the process of using these audit tools.
(ironically this document is not likely to be used for my phd).
Australia's new Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will highlight the need for dependable information systems, Micheal Axelsen writes.
This article appeared in MIS Australia Magazine and the CFO Software Guide 2009.
NGERS and Data Capture Systems: Reporting RequirementsMicheal Axelsen
With the first deadline for NGERS emissions reporting looming, and the pending introduction of the CPRS in Australia, it will be important for organisations to ensure data is captured to enable them to meet their responsibilities. Both business efficiency and audit facets need to be considered when choosing a data capture system/method.
- The document discusses data management strategies for accountants and compliance with accounting standards. It addresses data quality, governance, and assurance frameworks.
- Various definitions are provided around data quality, governance, and frameworks to structure quality activities and assess data quality.
- A data governance strategy is recommended that sets core data standards, focuses initially on critical data, and uses a slow-burn approach of monthly/quarterly reviews and a program of works to gradually improve data quality and maturity.
Purpose:
- To introduce you to the need to properly research topics using online resources (although ‘Google’ is now a verb, it isn’t research)
- To equip you with the tools to critically evaluate research found online
- To enable your professional growth as a lifelong learner
Learning Objectives
At the end of this lecture the student should be able to:
- Perform complex searches using Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and other tools
- Outline the benefits of bookmarking and research tools such as Delicio.us, Digg, and Stumbleupon, and use these tools
- Evaluate research found online for quality
- Properly cite and record online research when you find it using tools such as Evernote or OneNote
Continued Use Of IDAs And Knowledge AcquisitionMicheal Axelsen
The effects of continued use of intelligent decision aids upon auditor procedural knowledge
Student: Micheal Axelsen
Supervisor: Professor Peter Green, Dr Fiona Rohde
ABSTRACT
This research proposal builds upon the theory of technology dominance (Sutton & Arnold 1998), which has as one of its propositions that the continued use of intelligent decision aids may have the effect of deskilling auditors over time. A theoretical contribution is made through a consideration of this effect through the operation of the anchoring and adjustment heuristic (Epley & Gilovich, 2006; Kowalczyk & Wolfe, 1998; Tversky & Kahnemann, 1974) and cognitive load theory (Mascha & Smedley, 2007; Sweller, 1988). The anchoring and adjustment heuristic is a technique used by people in judgment tasks to remove cognitive burden. In making a judgment, the assessor ‘anchors’ upon the first value provided in making an estimate, and then ‘adjusts’ this estimate until a ‘reasonable’ estimate is reached. This heuristic has the effect of a systematic adjustment bias in the final estimate made. Cognitive load theory finds that an expert uses different and more efficient problem-solving strategies as a result of their past experiences in comparison to the novice. The expert draws upon their experience with past problems to develop their problem-solving strategies. Theoretically the argument is developed that the professional auditor’s ability to develop efficient problem-solving strategies is reduced as a result of their use of the anchoring and adjustment heuristics encouraged by the continued use of intelligent decision aids.
It is proposed that this integrated theory be empirically tested through a series of semi-structured interviews with audit professionals and a survey of public sector auditors designed to test the developed theoretical model. This investigation will consider the role of the continued use of intelligent decision aids and any deskilling effect such use may have upon auditor ‘know-how’, or procedural knowledge.
The contributions of this proposed research are several. Firstly, a theoretical contribution is made through extension and reconciliation of the theory of technology dominance with the anchoring and adjustment heuristic and cognitive load theory. Secondly, a practical contribution is made by extension of the testing of the theory to the field rather than experimentally. A third practical contribution is made through an empirical test of the theory of technology dominance in the context of procedural knowledge (auditor ‘know-how’), which has not previously been tested.
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Vision and Goals: The primary aim of the 1st Defence Tech Meetup is to create a Defence Tech cluster in Portugal, bringing together key technology and defence players, accelerating Defence Tech startups, and making Portugal an attractive hub for innovation in this sector.
Historical Context and Industry Evolution: The presentation provides an overview of the evolution of the Portuguese military industry from the 1970s to the present, highlighting significant shifts such as the privatisation of military capabilities and Portugal's integration into international defence and space programs.
Innovation and Defence Linkage: Emphasis on the historical linkage between innovation and defence, citing examples like the military genesis of Silicon Valley and the Cold War's technological dividends that fueled the digital economy, highlighting the potential for similar growth in Portugal.
Proposals for Growth: Recommendations include promoting dual-use technologies and open innovation, streamlining procurement processes, supporting and financing new ICT/BTID companies, and creating a Defence Startup Accelerator to spur innovation and economic growth.
Current and Future Technologies: Discussion on emerging defence technologies such as drone warfare, advancements in AI, and new military applications, along with the importance of integrating these innovations to enhance Portugal's defence capabilities and economic resilience.
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SLIDE ONE: TITLE SLIDE
Good morning and welcome to this session discussing data management strategies. Today’s session
is intended to introduce approaches you can take to ensuring that the data that underlies your business
is fit for the purpose for which you intend it. This requires an alignment of organisational intent with
technical skills and capabilities.
SLIDE TWO: INTRODUCTION
[No speaking points]
SLIDE THREE: ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
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Now, in order to discuss how your business can ensure that data is managed appropriately, this
presentation discusses strategies to manage data, and discusses how to ensure that data is managed
and controlled appropriately.
This presentation also discusses some of the issues that I have seen in practice relating to sustainable
management of data. This, in the end, comes back to ensuring that the business has the appropriate
effort spent on data governance and management for its needs. There are standard practices that can
be adopted, and it is intended today to introduce some of these to you.
In discussing this presentation, I should acknowledge that some of the material presented in this
discussion was supported under the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme
(project number LP0882068). Some of this material relates to the research work that I am carrying
out through a relationship with the University of Queensland and the Australian Research Council.
In presenting this material, I want to communicate some very real issues that I have seen in past
practice. Some of this will be a little humorous, some of it less so. You’ll see what I mean when we
get to those bits!
SLIDE FOUR: AGENDA
In examining data quality, it is very easy to become ‘hyper-focussed’ on having good quality data.
We all know that data is clearly an important business resource. In avoiding becoming ‘hyper-
focussed’ on data quality, please remember that you are pursuing data quality for a utilitarian purpose.
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The data that we manage must be important to the business and its senior team, including the business
owners. Data must be fit for purpose and help the business. That is the measure of good data quality.
In many ways, this discussion links to my presentation tomorrow on key performance indicators – it is
not possible to have key performance indicators that work well without having good-quality
underlying data.
In approaching the problem of data quality, be aware of the dangers of attempting to improve the
quality of all your data all at once. For all but the most special of organisations this ‘big bang’
approach is doomed to fail. The business must want data quality, and the approach to your data
quality must be aligned with your business strategy. It is not costless to improve data quality, and in
fact it is quite the reverse. Data quality is not an end in itself.
This presentation provides an approach and a toolset to advance the state of data management in your
business through data governance so that the data you have is accurate and useful. This presentation
explores the meaning of data governance, its impact upon the business, and how to develop a strategic
program of works that builds the business’s data governance. The aim is to develop an improved data
quality framework that works, which is a framework of practices and procedures that align data
quality practices with the business’ strategic need for data quality.
The emphasis here is on governance as a set of rules for governing data quality processes, and our
strategy is the way we direct day to day activities to ensure alignment with the business. The agenda
set out here takes us through a journey of what data management means for accountants, how we can
recognise data governance as a strategic need, and then a program of works that we can use to develop
our data management practices further.
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SLIDE FIVE: DATA MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTANTS
SLIDE SIX: ACCOUNTING COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS
Us accountants like our rules and regulations, and in this day and age nothing affects us quite like the
computer. Yet our standards only have very little to actually say on our use of the computer. ISA315
merely asks the auditors to have ‘an understanding’ of information systems relevant to financial
reporting. This is in stark contrast to the Sarbanes-Oxley approach in the United States, which
requires a much more interventionist and prescribed approach to knowing where the data itself comes
from.
In any event, if we are going to get good data that is useful to our business, we need to focus on more
than ‘just financial data’. The financial data is important, but frequently it tells us what happened,
rather than, perhaps, how it happened. We can use this data for decision-making and performance
monitoring, before it affects the financial bottom-line.
Let us discuss some illustrative examples that highlight some of the issues we are talking about here.
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SLIDE SEVEN: TALES FROM THE DATA VAULT
Blue screen of death
The ‘blue screen of death’ – I’m sure you’re quite familiar with it! One former
client had had the software for their management information system installed
twice. When the software was updated, however, only one installation was
updated – and the other wasn’t. This meant that one half of the office had
computers that updated the data in one way – and the other half, didn’t. This wasn’t noticed for about
a year, when the computers started to blue-screen regularly. By this time of course their data was
thoroughly nonsensical and required extensive cleaning.
Networking and wiring technology
Well, I think this picture kind of illustrates the point rather well. There is not
a lot of point investing in good data management strategies if your technology
platform is a bit, well, fragile. Ask yourself, what happens if one of these wires were to get pulled
out? Hmm.
Every computer should have one of these
Now, clearly every computer should have one of these. I’ll tell you the story
of my earlier career. It was a private school that I worked at, and every three
months a newsletter was sent out to the alumni. Now, the program we used
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was, shall we say, immature. It wasn’t really ready for prime time yet, although we had been using it
for three years. That was probably a mistake. However, we were using it.
Because it was immature, the programmer was always making changes. ‘Tailoring’ I believe it may
have been called. He made one little change. A teensy change. And it sent the program that gathered
addresses for the quarterly mailing for a loop so that, when it came to a postal address, it kept using
that postal address for every person that followed that person (until the next postal address). I
checked it. The director of business development checked it. His secretary checked it. No-one
noticed. They all got mailed out. All 11,000 of them.
We didn’t know until the postmaster in Chinchilla rang us the next day and said, “Hey, did youse
guys really want me to put 340 copies of your newsletter into Charlie’s PO Box?”. And then the
bloke in Townsville. And then... well, you get the picture.
A panic button would have been very helpful on that day.
Remembering when?
I don’t know if you remember these things on the left here. They’re 5¼ inch
floppy disks. Positively of absolutely no use now. I don’t think I’ve seen one in
ten years. In my old firm, we used to store a great deal of data on Zip-disk drives.
Again – you can’t really buy those now either. My old firm also used to scan its client files to
Microfilm. Then Microfiche. Then Canoscan OM disks. Then the disk reader broke, and you can’t
buy a new one.
And – nightmare of nightmares! – we were sued! Where were our file notes to prove we were in the
right? That’s right, they’d all been scanned to OM disks. On a machine that had since blown up.
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Now I can tell you, we put a lot of effort in getting that data back – and we did do it. The legal action
against the firm failed, at least partly on the basis of the information contained in those file notes.
Blast from the past
Again, do you remember these things? A great deal of data went on
those too – mind you, unlike floppy disks, THESE still work (so long
as the archives with your paper in haven’t burnt to the ground or been
flooded by now). Because of these issues, I can today show you more
of my work from 1986 – before I moved to new-fangled computers! – than from my four year
university degree and the entire decade of the 1990s (at which time, I stopped archiving off to floppy
disks!).
By the way, that’s a great little machine – I doubt that my notebook will be as good when it is 45
years old.
Quix! Type in wez had all our injekshuns
Now I don’t know how true this story is, but it’s a good one so we’ll run with that.
There was a multinational company based in Europe, and its database design was
built in France, so all those ‘yes/no’ data fields were coded as ‘o’ for oui and ‘n’ for
non. Unfortunately the training when they rolled out to Greece was not so good,
although everyone used the database. Unfortunately, in Greek, ‘o’ is for no, and ‘n’ is for yes. Again,
fantastic data quality.
User dues
We are our own worst enemy. Possibly the biggest threat to your data –
whether incompetent by malicious intent, or just by their good nature, the
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users of information systems can find ways to muck your data up that will make your toes curl. I am
thinking of one agency that was spending in excess of one billion dollars on infrastructure – this
required property resumptions. To record its discussions and negotiations with property-owners, the
QA manager decided that a spreadsheet would be the most appropriate approach to record the
negotiations and decisions made by its field agents. The system allowed the final outcomes of
negotiations to be recorded, but had no real method for recording the decisions made. The
information was contained inside many spreadsheets and could easily be overwritten by the end users.
SLIDE EIGHT: DEFINITIONS
Now, in the context of this presentation, the following definitions apply:
Data Quality: measures the data’s fitness for the intended use in operations, decision making &
planning
Governance: is a set of accountabilities, processes, and auditable and measurable controls that
ensure the business is on track to achieve its objectives
Data Governance: is therefore a set of accountabilities, processes, and auditable and measurable
controls to ensure the business is on track to achieve its data quality objectives
Data Quality Frameworks: These frameworks provide structure to data quality activities and allow
assessment of data quality
Data quality is principally about fitness for purpose. This is a broad definition, but it goes to the heart
of the matter. If the data is fit for the purpose for which it is intended, then data quality is generally
sufficient. However, businesses frequently use data for decision-making that it absolutely does not
support.
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For example, a client once had developed several information systems to manage its business
functions. This client was an agency focussed upon the management of personal relationships with
the government, and frequently aggregated the data from the different information systems to inform
the development of government policy responses to social issues. Unfortunately, the different
systems used different attributes to describe the people in care – in one system, there were three
ethnicities (Indigenous, Torres Strait Islander, and ‘other’), while another system had twelve ethnicity
codes. This approach made sense for each individual system, and the data was fit for the purpose
initially envisaged. Problems arose, however, when the data was used to support decisions it was not
originally intended for.
Similarly, this client was responsible for maintaining a spreadsheet of people who were considered a
‘threat to the community’. Unfortunately, this information was derived from the three information
systems, and was manually maintained. At the time of our review the master spreadsheet had not
been revised for six months – data that loses accuracy, timeliness and relevance.
There are several core components to the concepts of data governance.
Firstly, ‘governance’ is not about the specific actions to be taken, it is about who is accountable for
those actions, what processes are followed, and how these actions are measured.
Secondly, the aim is to meet the business’s data quality objectives. If those objectives are not set out,
or are at odds with the aims of the data quality framework, then data governance is poor.
SLIDE TEN: THE REASONS WHY
In order to advance data governance, it is absolutely essential that the business strategy is understood.
There are very good business reasons for improving data quality frameworks through good data
governance, which can be analysed in terms of ‘compliance’ frameworks (required by a standard or
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law) and ‘incentive’ frameworks (whereby it can be seen that IT governance provides a positive return
to the business, even when it is not required).
On this list of compliance frameworks, Control Objectives for IT (COBIT) and Sarbanes-Oxley are
both audit standards. Neither has a direct ‘black and white’ legislative effect in Australia, although
they are both influential for Australian businesses.
COBIT is managed and developed by the Information Technology Governance Institute. The
Information Systems and Audit Control Association originally developed COBIT in order to assess
the controls over information technology and the information managed by it. COBIT is an audit
standard for IT governance, and a very small part of that standard is devoted to data management and
data quality. Financial auditors use COBIT when assessing the controls over information technology
as part of a financial audit. These control objectives become important for complex audits, and where
the auditor feels unable to consider information technology to be a ‘black box’ that can safely be
ignored.
For a financial auditor, if the controls over the accounting system are inadequate and unreliable, then
there is little prospect that the auditor can place reliance upon the information produced from that
accounting system.
The COBIT standard may be applied to larger organisations that require complex audits. However,
there is no legislative requirement that this be followed, and its application is generally left to the
professional judgment of the auditor.
Sarbanes-Oxley is, again, a standard that is not generally relevant for non-UScompanies, as it is US-
based legislation. However, it should be noted that US legislation generally attempts to be as
inclusive as it possibly can, and wholly-owned subsidiaries of US firms operating elsewhere are
required to achieve SOx compliance if the parent company is subject to Sarbanes-Oxley.
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S404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires a management assessment of internal controls. In practice,
the auditor must be certain of the provenance of financial data, and so controls over feeder systems
through to the financial information systems are relevant. Generally, auditors have tended to be
conservative in their application of S404 – so although not all systems need be tested every year,
auditors err on the side of caution in these instances.
Of interest is speculation that overseas companies may be captured by the operation of S404 if those
companies produce information that passes information (not necessarily financial!) to the financial
information systems of a US company. Sarbanes-Oxley affects Australian companies with significant
business-to-business relationships with US companies (e.g. joint ventures).
In Australia, the Stock Exchange has rules for listed companies, although these are not particularly
onerous in this context. Principle 2 requires that the board of the business is structured to add value,
whilst Principle 7 requires that the board recognise and manage risk.
As for the management of risk, it is true that poor data quality can result in poor business decisions,
but generally data quality seems to be the last thing on the minds of board members and the senior
executive team. Until, that is, poor data quality results in a bad business decision or a crisis.
There needs to be a story to motivate the senior team about data quality. My stories would include the
time a school sent academic reports to the estranged father of a child. The father was the subject of a
domestic violence order and was not to know where the student attended the school. Or the time the
accounting firm kept inviting the managing director of a very major client to seminars and
presentations, despite the fact he had died six months previously. Or Queensland Police Service,
where if the information provided to their people on the streets by 000 is wrong, people die. There is
also the story of the managing director of a listed company with $16 million turnover. He received an
audit letter that was 32 pages in length, mostly due to poor information security and data quality, and
yet refused to upgrade the accounting system from MYOB.
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Privacy legislation requirements apply to the data that we gather, and there is of course an Australian
and international standard on IT Governance (AS8015-2005; ISO/IEC 38500) and AS4360:2004 is
the Australian standard on Risk Management. Amongst other requirements, there is also the act to
counter spam and the counter-terrorism act, the credit card companies impose their own restrictions,
and if you are an accountant there is the new money-laundering act, all of which provide for harsh
penalties for breaches by directors.
However, there is generally no hard-and-fast requirement for data quality in Australia, and so you
need to build the business case for data quality judiciously. There is the assertion by Weill & Ross
(2004) that good IT governance practices provide a higher return on assets for businesses than
businesses without good IT governance practices. Generally, though, you will need to build the case
for the improvement of data quality on the basis of your business.
Unfortunately for those of us that want to see good data, the Sarbanes-Oxley experience shows that
penalties (both civil and criminal) seem to be a primary motivator in getting a focus on data quality in
businesses.
SLIDE ELEVEN: ACCOUNTANTS AND SPREADSHEETS
Us accountants also love our spreadsheets. We love to work with them and use them all the time, and
there are very good reasons for that. Spreadsheets contain a lot of the corporate information that we
use to guide decision-making.
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However, spreadsheets are notoriously unreliable. There are frequent errors and problems with the
formulas that we use. It’s not ‘just a spreadsheet’ if we use it to make important business decisions,
and we need to know and understand where the data that we are using has come from.
The spreadsheet should have internal controls and methods of validation as well – it is still a system
and needs appropriate controls, checks and balances. I always use an ‘IIF’ formula to cross-reference
my totals and flag exceptions, or conditional formatting is useful as well, as I am sure you know.
Although it is ‘just a spreadsheet’ we should look to build into the spreadsheet its integrity.
Additionally, where the spreadsheet uses data from other systems, understand where that data has
come from, and ensure that you know its security, its integrity, its effectiveness and its efficiency.
There are several inherent problems with a spreadsheet, though. Firstly, by its nature a spreadsheet is
not exactly multi-user. We tend to make a copy of data in a spreadsheet, and then update that data
rather than updating the source. Or, the spreadsheet quickly becomes out of date.
A client of mine once had 28 staff working for it, from the CEO down to the janitor. That business
had 84 databases of some description – none of which was particularly well-maintained, nor current!
Spreadsheets do provide a very simple way of transporting data around – unfortunately this strength is
also a weakness. Once data has been placed into a spreadsheet, any controls you might have created
over access to it are generally ignored from then on. It becomes an unmanaged data repository – and
frequently a considerable one at that.
Incidentally, as accountants we are often guilty of using spreadsheets to meddle with dark forces.
Forces we perhaps don’t understand. Now, you can stretch a spreadsheet’s functionality to address
some of these issues. My brother-in-law – bless his little cotton-socks! – uses multi-user spreadsheets
in all complex manner of ways. He has his sales managers in different sites enter the daily sales and
other key bits of information into the same spreadsheet, which he then runs a macro over it to pick up
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the data that he wants. Yes you can modify a spreadsheet to do these things, with ODBC links and
other automation elements. However, eventually, what you have done is strap a jet engine to a
Volkswagen Beetle. It can be done, sure, but who would want to drive it?
A spreadsheet is a very good tool for what it was designed for, but it is not a database. I have seen
many accountants build very complex inter-related spreadsheets when, really, the tool to use should
have been a proper database. Please, bear this in mind if your spreadsheets are becoming too fragile
and unwieldy!
SLIDE TWELVE: ALIGNING EFFORT AND NEED
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SLIDE THIRTEEN: DO WHAT THE BUSINESS NEEDS
The diagram here shows the relationship between the effort you put into
managing data quality and the expected impact on the business. The red circles indicate an
unsustainable mismatch of the effort put into data quality and the impact upon the business.
The need to build the business case for data quality means that the alignment of data quality practices
with the needs of the business is paramount. There is very little point in pursuing data quality as an
end in itself if it has little benefit for the business. Focus is needed to get the most business impact
from your strategic effort.
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SLIDE FOURTEEN: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND DATA
Your average board is comprised of accountants, lawyers, and sometimes an ex-politician or two.
Given the focus of directors’ duties on compliance with financial standards, and the general
background of boards, it is probably no surprise that businesses are very good at managing financial
assets and physical assets, and quite poor at most of the other key assets of the business.
To advance data quality, we need to bring this issue to appropriate prominence. It starts with the
board, which will need to ensure accountability, monitor and supervise the actions of the senior
executive team, decide strategic actions, and make policy. If, at this time, the board sees no role for
data quality within the business, then that needs to be changed if data governance is to be advanced.
The senior executive team needs to set out the business strategy – which must include the objectives
for data quality – and decide who has input into the approach.
Data quality needs to be on the board’s agenda – it does not need to be the board’s agenda, but it does
need to be on it. This means that we adopt governance groups and governance processes to ensure
data quality stays top-of-mind.
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SLIDE FIFTEEN: GOVERNANCE GROUPS
When approaching governance groups that you can use for sorting out data quality, the mechanisms
you use need to be compatible with your business and the way it approaches the questions of IT
management. A steering committee is unlikely to work well if the rest of the IT approach – or the rest
of the business - is undertaken in an anarchistic manner.
However, key governance groups and processes include:
Applications board
Information Steering Committee
Board Risk and Audit Committee
Governance Calendar
Balanced Scorecard
The key here is that there needs to be a way to manage data quality, and it needs to be monitored by
the people that matter.
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SLIDE SIXTEEN: INTEGRATING IT PLANS INTO BUSINESS
STRATEGY
This process is a rational one, and essentially requires that the gap is identified between the current
approach and business requirements, and then the gap is closed. Unfortunately there are common
flaws that exist in the approach by business:
Where there is no direction by the business, IT fills the gap as it sees fit.
The approach is completely out of alignment with the business
Personal or political agendas cloud the approach
There is no way of closing the loop with feedback so that the current ‘flavour of the month’ continues
to be monitored once it is no longer the flavour of the month.
A business decision
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Data quality is a business issue. A forum and a process are needed to synthesise a whole-of-business
approach. The responsibilities of the Chief Information Officer include the development of business-
driven IT strategy and the monitoring of ICT service delivery. This includes the development of the
data governance approach and the strategy for data quality.
The CIO does have a role to input into business strategy in terms of identifying business
opportunities. As a supporting business function, though, in practical terms the CIO must engage
with the business functions of HR, Finance, and Marketing once they have developed their specific
plans, and then identify the Business IT Strategic Plan. This will include the data quality strategy,
which defines the required goals, initiatives and program of work for delivery of the strategy.
This is critical to achieving data quality in the context of ensuring alignment with the business,
although frequently this does not appear to be undertaken in business.
SLIDE EIGHTEEN: DATA GOVERNANCE STRATEGY
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SLIDE NINETEEN: IMPROVING DATA QUALITY
Improving data quality is about the development of good business habits and a culture of good data,
rather than a ‘big bang’ approach. It is naive to think that data quality can be improved in a ‘Great
Leap Forward’ on all fronts and all at once. Critically, data quality is only tangentially related to the
use of software tools.
SLIDE TWENTY: PRACTICAL STRATEGIES
To be sustainable, data quality must meet the cost/benefit test, and be important to the business. A
data governance strategy grows organisational capability by implementing a data quality ‘floor’ for all
data and focussing the most resources upon the most critical data.
This creates less business risk, higher quality, and lower costs than a ‘big bang’ approach. The data
quality strategy needs to be owned by the business, not ‘IT; this has implications for the approach to
the development of governance groups.
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In developing the strategy, set core standards for all data to create a basic level of data quality, and
then focus business resources on the development of data quality practices for absolutely critical data
first. These could be termed critical data types.
It is recommended that you be realistic in your approach, and do not develop over-engineered
solutions for the entire organisation’s data at first. A steady and sure approach is usually best - slow-
burn strategies that deliver beat fast-burning failures every time.
It is recommended that you build a strategic rhythm of monthly & quarterly reviews. This approach
de-emphasises the development of a strategy that sits on the shelf, and instead focuses on regular
touch points of the strategy throughout the timeframe of the strategy.
Quarterly deliverables should be set in the program of works for ease of monitoring, and these should
be reported to and reviewed by the Steering Committee, and noted by the Board committee through
the Balanced Scorecard and Governance Calendar. At all times, an active strategy is a practical
strategy
SLIDE TWENTY-ONE: STRATEGY FOR DELIVERING DATA
GOVERNANCE
Under this approach, our Business IT Strategic Plan will set out the mission, the three-year goals and,
after identifying the key challenges to achieving those goals, identify a set of initiatives that will be
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successful. Unless there are significant resources available, a slow-burn strategy will be most
appropriate.
It is important that this strategy recognise the business’ limitations. The achievement of even a single
deliverable will be a major step forward in improving the data quality framework. Recognise that the
resources available are limited – if they are. If the resources cannot be made available, then work
with what you have.
This approach emphasises the process of developing the strategy, rather than the strategy. So, rather
than spending many hours at developing a strategy that sits on the top shelf, this approach requires a
constant monitoring (daily, weekly, and monthly reviews) and the development of quarterly
deliverables with the strategy development team. Be conservative in your deliverables, and be wary
of creating an undeliverable wish-list.
This is an active strategy approach.
SLIDE TWENTY-TWO: THE PROGRAM OF WORKS
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SLIDE TWENTY-THREE: MATURITY THROUGH GROWTH
Measuring the maturity of the process of managing data that satisfies the business requirement for IT
of optimising the use of information and ensuring that information is available as required is:
Rank Level Description
0 Non-existent Data are not recognised as corporate resources and assets. There
is no assigned data ownership or individual accountability for
data management. Data quality and security are poor or non-
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Rank Level Description
existent.
1 Ad hoc The organisation recognises a need for effective data
management. There is an ad hoc approach for specifying security
requirements for data management, but no formal
communications procedures are in place. No specific training on
data management takes place.
Responsibility for data management is not clear.
Backup/restoration procedures and disposal arrangements are in
place.
2 Repeatable but The awareness of the need for effective data management exists
intuitive throughout the organisation. Data ownership at a high level
begins to occur. Security requirements for data management are
documented by key individuals. Some monitoring within IT is
performed on data management key activities (e.g., backup,
restoration, and disposal). Responsibilities for data management
are informally assigned for key IT staff members.
3 Defined The need for data management within IT and across the
process organisation is understood and accepted. Responsibility for data
management is established. Data ownership is assigned to the
responsible party who controls integrity and security. Data
management procedures are formalised within IT, and some tools
for backup/restoration and disposal of equipment are used. Some
monitoring over data management is in place. Basic performance
metrics are defined. Training for data management staff members
is emerging.
4 Managed and The need for data management is understood, and required
measurable actions are accepted within the organisation. Responsibility for
data ownership and management are clearly defined, assigned
and communicated within the organisation. Procedures are
formalised and widely known, and knowledge is shared. Usage of
current tools is emerging. Goal and performance indicators are
agreed to with customers and monitored through a well-defined
process. Formal training for data management staff members is in
place.
5 Optimised The need for data management and the understanding of all
required actions is understood and accepted within the
organisation.
Future needs and requirements are explored in a proactive
manner. The responsibilities for data ownership and data
management are clearly established, widely known across the
organisation and updated on a timely basis. Procedures are
formalised and widely known, and knowledge sharing is standard
practice. Sophisticated tools are used with maximum automation
of data management. Goal and performance indicators are agreed
to with customers, linked to business objectives and consistently
monitored using a well-defined process. Opportunities for
improvement are constantly explored. Training for data
management staff members is instituted.
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Data quality management can only work when the organisation is ready for it. A great leap forward
won’t work for data management. The activities set out in the program of work, and the key
performance indicators adopted as metrics to measure data quality must be tailored for your readiness.
SLIDE TWENTY-FOUR: OBJECTIVES OF DATA QUALITY
Process Description
DS11.1 Business Requirements for Data Management
DS11.2 Storage and Retention Arrangements
DS11.3 Media Library Management System
DS11.4 Disposal
DS11.5 Backup and Restoration
DS11.6 Security Requirements for Data Management
These control objectives are the ones set out by COBIT, and although they are not a complete set of
available objectives, this should be reflected in the data quality strategy.
DS11.1 Business Requirements for Data Management - Verify that all data expected for processing
are received and processed completely, accurately and in a timely manner, and all output is delivered
in accordance with business requirements. Support restart and reprocessing needs.
DS11.2 Storage and Retention Arrangements - Define and implement procedures for effective and
efficient data storage, retention and archiving to meet business objectives, the organisation’s security
policy and regulatory requirements.
DS11.3 Media Library Management System - Define and implement procedures to maintain an
inventory of stored and archived media to ensure their usability and integrity.
DS11.4 Disposal - Define and implement procedures to ensure that business requirements for
protection of sensitive data and software are met when data and hardware are disposed or transferred.
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DS11.5 Backup and Restoration - Define and implement procedures for backup and restoration of
systems, applications, data and documentation in line with business requirements and the continuity
plan.
DS11.6 Security Requirements for Data Management - Define and implement policies and procedures
to identify and apply security requirements applicable to the receipt, processing, storage and output of
data to meet business objectives, the organisation’s security policy and regulatory requirements.
SLIDE TWENTY-FIVE: IMPROVING THE DATA QUALITY
FRAMEWORK
Having assessed your control objectives, the strategy will outline the need to improve the data quality
framework through assessment of the gap between the required level and the necessary steps to
improve these measures over time.
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SLIDE TWENTY-SIX: INVEST IN SECURITY ACCORDING TO YOUR
NEEDS
It is possible to have very secure data connections, and of course our friend Leo here is a good
deterrent from a would-be prowler. However we do need to be sure that we don’t make our data too
hard to use, and we need to be sure that it is not left insecure. Security is necessary according to our
needs, and keep it appropriate. Often we invest in high-tech gadgetry or security methods when other,
more mundane, approaches might make the data that little bit more secure.
SLIDE TWENTY-SEVEN: DATA QUALITY POLICY FRAMEWORK
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SLIDE TWENTY-EIGHT: DATA MANAGEMENT LIFECYCLE
Data goes through a lifecycle – it is created, used, assessed, re-born, and, finally, it dies. The
implication is that data needs to be respected over time – you cannot do this as a one-off. If your data
is going to inform decision-making, then be sure to have the best data quality you can afford, for the
data that matters.
To ensure that your data is managed appropriately, this lifecycle identifies activities that can be
carried out in order to manage the data at that particular point in its life. These points are suggested
by the COBIT framework.
SLIDE TWENTY-NINE: DATA QUALITY POLICY FRAMEWORK
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This diagram here sets out some of the practical things we can do to achieve data quality. These items
would be added to the program of works, and delivered over time to critical data types. It is critical
that you consider this strategy in the context of two streams:
1. Non-critical data types – data that is not critical to business decision-making and that, whilst
we do not require it to be the highest quality, nevertheless it should be of acceptable quality.
2. Critical data types – data that is critical to the organisation and, if managed well, will give us
the ability to make decisions and monitor our business well.
It is likely that critical data types will be that information that is prescribed by law to be managed in a
very secure manner. Alternatively, these critical data types will be used by the business for the
monitoring and development of its key performance indicators.
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The data management activities you do need to be broken down to ensure a minimally acceptable
standard of data quality for non-critical data, and focus resources on the development of practices that
affect critical data types.
Practical things that can be done to achieve data quality include:
Data entry controls: Data entry requirements are clearly stated, enforced and supported by automated
techniques at all levels, including database and file interfaces
Data ownership: The responsibilities for data ownership and integrity requirements are clearly stated
and accepted throughout the organisation
Training in standards: Data accuracy and standards are clearly communicated and incorporated into
the training and personnel development processes
Data correction: Data entry standards and correction are enforced at the point of entry
Output standards: Data input, processing and output integrity standards are formalised and enforced
Data quarantine: Data are held in suspense until corrected
Integrity Monitoring: Effective detection methods are used to enforce data accuracy and integrity
standards – these might be automated audit tools.
Reliable and meaningful data interfaces: Effective translation of data across platforms is
implemented without loss of integrity or reliability to meet changing business demands.
Minimal keying: There is a decreased reliance on manual data input and re-keying processes
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Data access tools: Efficient and flexible solutions promote effective use and re-use of data
Archive management: Data are archived and protected and are readily available when needed for
recovery.
Data dictionary: A data dictionary provides a framework of data types, their semantic meaning, and
works to improve the business’s understanding of its own information.
Information inventory: An information inventory provides a visual reference to identified data and
information types within the organisation.
As part of this data management strategy, ongoing feedback and data quality metrics will be important
for providing feedback for your data governance groups. Key performance indicators may include:
Percent of data input errors
Percent of updates reprocessed
Percent of automated data integrity checks incorporated into the applications
Percent of errors prevented at the point of entry
Number of automated data integrity checks run independently of the applications
Time interval between error occurrence, detection and correction
Reduced data output problems
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Reduced time for recovery of archived data
The KPI may be a simple ratio, a minimum or a maximum value, or a weighted average. These KPIs
will be provided as part of the balanced scorecard to the board and its committee, and in more detail
to the business steering committee.
SLIDE THIRTY: CONCLUSION
The major themes that I would like to recall to you today include the following points:
Data quality is not an end in itself
Involvement and ownership by the business is vital – if data quality is not emphasised, or is not seen
as relevant to the business, then trying to force that horse to drink is going to be as frustrating as
milking a herd of mice.
Pursuing data management by technology alone is doomed to fail
It is best to develop an active data management strategy that is aligned with the business’s needs, and
to promote strong data quality habits amongst users. The force of habit is the most powerful force in
the universe.
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Start focussed with the core data management activities, for only those critical data types for the
business. As you build your organisational maturity up, you can expand the data that is managed
well.
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for your attention today.