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Data Governance Conference
Post
Conference Tutorials, June 28, 2007
Planning
and Architecting Your MDM Solution
Evan Levy
Partner
Baseline Consulting
Many
companies embarking on Customer Data Integration and Master Data
Management (MDM) initiatives make certain assumptions about the
way they should pitch their management, tackle the planning, and
launch their MDM projects in a structured and sustainable way. In
this workshop, consultant and author Evan Levy will describe why
deploying customer master data solutions via CDI and MDM approach
requires a different implementation framework. Evan will list a
set of metrics for determining where MDM fits in the existing technology
infrastructure, who should own master data, and how it should be
governed for the long term.
The workshop describes how existing and emerging practices like
business analysis, data modeling, data stewardship, and data governance
become key MDM components. Indeed, when done right, MDM can help
strengthen these and other practices within your organization.
Evan will explain how to pitch and position MDM relative to existing
and upcoming strategic business initiatives, and explain the value
of master data to systems and users across the enterprise.
Attendees will learn:
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Differentiate CDI and MDM from other existing data integration and
reporting solutions
· Where the boundaries of data governance, data management,
and MDM meet
· How to leverage existing development practices for MDM
success
· Building the team with the right skills and responsibilities
· The challenges and obstacles to MDM deployment
· Ways to introduce data governance and management practices
via MDM
· Identifying necessary functions and features with your
MDM solution
Consulting Skills Workshop
Graeme Simsion
President
Simsion & Associates
As every data professional knows, the toughest part of the job is
engaging the business: understanding their requirements, winning
their support, and meeting their expectations. These are consulting
skills - and even if you're "only" providing services
within your own organization, you're a consultant - like it or not!
Many of the techniques that the best external consultants use are
equally relevant to you.
In this workshop, Graeme will share principles, techniques and tips
learned from 20 years of building and managing a successful consultancy.
He'll show you how to:
· Gain a deeper understanding of business needs and priorities
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Define high-value projects and gain business buy-in
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Negotiate and manage expectations
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Deal with problems - and difficult people
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Build effective long-term relationships
This part of the seminar is intended for every person involved in
meeting the needs of the business - and is particularly relevant
for those in administration or support functions such as data management,
data governance and architecture areas. We should add that external
consultants, particularly those working independently, have also
found Graeme's consulting skills workshops extremely valuable in
improving the success of their client engagements.
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