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The Process is key to building an effective plan
Decisions that you take on data will have a major impact throughout the enterprise.   A poor decision can damage an organisation for years, limiting the ability to innovate and serve customers.  Good decisions can improve the business and significantly reduce costs. 
 
If you don't take strategic decisions during the planning phase then a lowly developer will take it for you when the coding starts and you will have to live with the consequences.
 
The purpose of the planning process is to surface strategic issues to the right level of management and to provide suficient depth of research and analysis so that rational business decisions can be made.
 
CLOUD systems are now becoming a reality and need to be taken seriously in the planning phase.  Increasing numbers of organisations are adopting Cloud systems such as SalesForce.com and Google Apps.  This has significant impact on business operations, security and infrastructure planning so time needs to be allocated during the process to evaluate the relevance to your organisation.

ENTERPRISE DATA PLANNING is a key management discipline for the 21st Century.  You will learn to improve the quality and effectiveness of your plan over time hat Planning You will learn to take more good decisions.

You need your own process and your own plan. 

What we offer here is a starter pack and fast track to get you off the ground and then some periodic processes and research to help you develop the routine discipline that will pay great dividends for you over time.  You will learn to take more good decisions.   The key steps in our process vary according to actual needs but as a starter they are:
  • Review known business plans, objectives and capabilities
  • Review external business factors for your sector
  • Specify ideal target systems and data architectures
  • Assess current organisational, systems and database capability
  • Review technology and data options
  • Develop a strategy for achieving the objectives
  • Identify the risks and opportunities
  • Develop a strategy for limiting risks and exploiting opportunities
  • Refine the strategies into working plans
  • Project costs and revenues and develop a financial plan
  • Document it concisely

This an iterative process. The identification of risks and opportunities might cause you to go back and change your strategy for achieving your objectives. The plans themselves or the bottom line – the cash flow, profit or loss – might highlight new risks.

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