Strategy & Architecture
Build your analytics solutions on a rock solid foundation of strategy, architecture and design.
How We Can Help
Analytics strategy and architecture are ideally created together because architecture (how your analytics solution is constructed) must support your analytics strategy. Similarly, your analytics strategy should support your business strategy. When all of these are aligned, you can move quickly and confidently to execute your analytics program.
Architecture may begin with a conceptual illustration of how data flows throughout your enterprise, but it’s more than that. Architecture should also consider security, data governance, code patterns, executive steering, organizational adoption and how to ensure return on investment.
Strategy, in simple terms, is things you do to achieve your objective that is not ordinary or obvious. The best strategies will acknowledge limitations of organizational change, while also challenging thinking on how analytics generates value. Analytics strategy should contemplate topics like process improvement, adoption, change management, risks and mitigations, staffing, and where capabilities reside in the organization.
When To Call Us
Here are some common reasons clients call on us.
- The project is high-stakes or mission critical.
- Stakeholders are not adopting the solution.
- Your project is stalled or otherwise at-risk.
- The team is building without sufficient requirements.
- Architecture was not adequately planned.
- Users do not trust the numbers.
Key Activities
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TECHNOLOGY
- Inventory and profile sources of data.
- Facilitate tool and technology selection.
- Create patterns for implementation and testing.
- Install reconciliation framework.
- Oversee implementation of the architecture.
PROCESS
- Verify metric definitions with business stakeholders.
- Create a common information model.
- Establish testing protocols.
- Setup SDLC, deployment and sign-off procedures
- Implement business request and prioritization procedures.
ORGANIZATION
- Review and align to business strategy.
- Forecast staffing and budget.
- Identify organizational risks / barriers.
- Define how analytics creates lift.
- Gather buy-in on technology decisions.
- Coach developers on best practices.
