Tutorials and Afternoon Conference Sessions
December 7, 2015
| Monday December 7 7:00–6:00 |
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| Monday December 7 7:00–8:30 |
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| 8:30 - 11:45 MORNING TUTORIALS | ||
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AM1 - Implementing Data Governance: Getting Started the Right Way Peter Aiken, Founding Director, VCU/Data Blueprint Far too many data governance programs are started with the best intention but ultimately fail and need to be re-booted. This tutorial shows how to structure data governance that will be seen as meaningful by your organization. It consists of: using the organizational challenges to guide the form of governance implemented; decomposing implementation in a manner that will be seen by all as helping to address specific challenges; aiding the implementation using a variety of techniques (not tools); developing a series of progressively stronger strategies for addressing the challenges; providing meaningful feedback on progress; and facilitating development of a data-centric framework for institutionalizing organizational data governance knowledge. Attendees will learn:
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AM2 - Establishing Data Policies and Standards for Big Data Sunil Soares, Founder and Managing Partner, Information Asset, LLC In this tutorial, Sunil Soares will review an overall framework to establish data policies and standards to govern Big Data. Topics include the following:
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AM3 - Business Led Data Governance (Or How to Pivot DG from IT to the Business) John Ladley, President, IMCue Solutions A key success factor for Data Governance has been good business sponsorship. However we are evolving rapidly away from business-sponsored Data Governance to business-led Data Governance. This is not simple word interpretation or semantic discussion. This is a crucial pivot in how Data Governance is operated . This tutorial will review the DG deployment process from a pure business view, and focus on how to pivot DG away from IT-led to business-led.
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PM1 - Practical Advice from the Trenches for Successful Data Governance Anthony Algmin, Chief Data Architect, Uturn Data Solutions You have to start somewhere, but there is so much to be done. Resources are always scarce, and the only way you ’ll get more of them is to show real value from what you do today. To deliver value from data, you must learn the golden rules of Just-In-Time Data Governance:
In this three-hour tutorial we will investigate the various responsibilities of a Data Governance organization, and how to allocate your limited resources to the most value-added activities. We will especially talk about what matters most in the beginning when it is your once chance to build lasting momentum. Additionally we’ll cover:
Save the purely academic topics for other sessions – this one is all about rolling up our sleeves to stop just TALKING ABOUT DATA GOVERNANCE, and start MAKING DATA GOVERNANCE HAPPEN. Level of Audience: |
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PM2 - Top 5 Artifacts Needed for Sustaining Data Governance Kelle O'Neal, CEO, First San Francisco Partners Have you ever Googled Data Policy hoping to find a useful template to help you write your fist policy? Have you searched online for a Communication Plan in an attempt to leverage proven best practices? Search no more! This practical Tutorial will cover the most important and impactful artifacts and deliverables needed to implement and sustain governance. Rather than speak hypothetically about what output is needed from governance, we will discuss and review artifact templates to help you re-create them in your organization. We will talk about the process to create, validate, and confirm the 5 most important artifacts needed to implement and sustain governance across your organization. We will discuss:
Participants in this tutorial will even leave with sample artifacts they can use for their data governance programs in the future! Level of Audience: |
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PM3 - Governing the Business Vocabulary Robert S. Seiner, President/Principal, KIK Consulting / TDAN.com Governance of metadata on three distinct levels is required to maximize the value organizations get from their data and information assets. The governance of business vocabulary, the data dictionaries, and the physical data metadata hold the key to improved understanding and use. In this tutorial, Bob Seiner will describe the core components of governing the business vocabulary. This session will include examples of policies, detailed procedures, enforcement and roles & responsibilities required to maximize the value of enterprise data and metadata. This session will cover:
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Best Practices for Governing Material Master and Service Master Data to Improve Bottom Line Profit Daryl Crockett, CEO, ValidDatum When we hear "Master Data Governance", a lot of us think about governing our Customers. But hidden in the tens of thousands of material master items and our voluminous Purchase Order data are the raw materials for building a powerful and optimized procurement process. But this can only be achieved if you can properly classify, describe, and de-dupe your items as part of an ongoing governed process. In this case study, we will review the step-by-step process used by a global manufacturer that was overwhelmed by an ungoverned purchasing process. With multiple ERP systems and facilities spread across the globe, their data was overwhelming and the prospect of accurate spend analysis, vendor rationalization and material master consolidation seemed more like a dream than a goal. We will walk through the roadmap they followed and learn what worked (and what didn’t) on their journey to procurement efficiency improvement. Specifically, we will discuss:
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A Successful Data Quality Journey Mary Lynn Early, Engagement Manager, IMS Health Managing the quality of a company ’s information can be a daunting task regardless of the technology used. In this session you will travel through a data quality journey experienced by a life science company as they implemented their customer MDM for health care practitioners and health care organizations. The journey, driven by demands for accurate information required for compliance reporting, leveraged their Data Governance organization and followed a systemic process to implement a measurable and successful program. This presentation will be system and tool agnostic. Key topics include:
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Critical Data Elements Identification: A Risk-Based Approach Joel Amick, Director, Data Quality, TIAA-CREF Today's companies are under ever growing pressures to ensure they are managing their risk to the best of their ability. One way to couple this growing paradigm is to ensure your Data Quality work is based on this same attention to mitigation. In this session we will describe the need and process around building out a Risk-Based CDE identification process. We will cover:
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Special Interest Group Data Governance in Health Care Anne Buff, VP Communications, Data Governance Professionals Organization This session is open to all conference attendees. Special Interest Group The Data Governance Professionals Organization (DGPO) recognizes that these unique differences in the healthcare industry require additional considerations, focus and attention (and perhaps additional therapy or consoling for healthcare data governance professionals). We checked, there is not an ICD10 code for Healthcare DG Trauma therapy, so instead we offer the DGPO Data Governance in Health Care Special Interest Group (SIG). The purpose of this SIG is to provide a forum where data governance practitioners in the healthcare industry can interact with their peers and learn more about techniques and approaches that may be valuable in their own environments, particularly related to how Data can help address emerging needs in a rapidly changing industry. The focus of this session will be two-fold:
This facilitated discussion will drive future topics and activities provided by the DGPO. We encourage you to bring your stories, questions, concerns, best practices and unique perspectives to share with your peers and help influence data governance in health care for the future. Level of Audience: |
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Cocktail Reception Hosted by First San Francisco Partners All conference attendees are invited We all know the data landscape is changing. So are we! If so, First San Francisco Partners cordially invite you to join us for a cocktail reception and special announcement.
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