BI Think! Event: The Master of Your Domain
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The Master of Your Domain
March 2013
Mark Worthen
BI Senior Consultant
Claim the Power of Accurate Data
Introduction to Master Data Management
Our Agenda
The State of Data Quality
Getting Started
Questions
Considerations for Success
Benefits of Master Data Management
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Data Trust – Do you have it?
■ In a recent survey* 94% of businesses said there was data
inaccuracy in their systems – problems such as:
■ Incomplete or Missing Data
■ Outdated Information
■ Duplicate Information
■ In another survey** about trust in organisational data:
■ 68% said poor data impacts their organisation
■ 38% don’t trust the data for making strategic and
operational decisions
** Ventana Research - 2009
* Experian QAS - 2013
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2%
52%38%
8%
Perfect
Pretty Good, But aFew Problems
Some Data Sources aComplete Mess
Serious Problems
Data Quality – 2006 Survey*
* Results from Scott Ambler’s September 2006 Data Quality
Survey posted at www.agilemodeling.com/surveys/
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Data Quality – 2009 Survey*
* The Information Difference Company Ltd. 2009
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Data Quality Costs – 2009 Survey*
* The Information Difference Company Ltd. 2009
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Data Quality Program Barriers – 2009 Survey*
* The Information Difference Company Ltd. 2009
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Finding the Gold
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Finding the Gold
True Gold!
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Balancing Data Quality
■ High Impact
■ People, Places, Things
■ Consistency, Accuracy,
Completeness
■ Lower Impact
■ Attributes of High Impact
Items
■ Ease-of-Use
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The Scope of Accuracy
Joe
Jones
Sally
Smith
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The Scope of Accuracy
Joe
Jones
Sally
Smith
Joe & Sally
Jones
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The Scope of Accuracy
MDM
HR
Payroll
ERP
CRM
Loyalty
Phone List
Active Directory
Store Security
Joe & Sally
Jones
BI Think Event – Data Quality and MDM – March 2013
The Scope of Accuracy
MDM
HR
Payroll
ERP
CRM
Loyalty
Phone List
Active Directory
Store Security
Joe & Sally
Jones
BI Think Event – Data Quality and MDM – March 2013
The Scope of Accuracy
MDM
HR
Payroll
ERP
CRM
Loyalty
Phone List
Active Directory
Store Security
Joe & Sally
Jones
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BI Think Event – Data Quality and MDM – March 2013
BI Think Event – Data Quality and MDM – March 2013
Business Benefits of MDM
■ Remove Data Redundancy and Inconsistency
■ Improve Operational Efficiency
■ Improve Insight and Confident Decision Making
■ Improve Compliance
■ Reduce Process Errors
■ Better Support Business Change
■ Decouple Enterprise System Dependencies
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Getting Buy-In to MDM
■ Question: How will MDM help provide better results?
■ Understand the approximate cost-benefit ratio
■ Document poor data quality “costs”
■ Inaccurate reporting & analysis
■ Time required to gather information
■ Inability to provide timely, accurate customer service
■ These items will help with Barriers to starting program
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Data Quality Program Barriers – 2009 Survey*
* The Information Difference Company Ltd. 2009
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Selecting an Initial Project
■ Three approaches:
■ Choose the area with the most poor-data ‘pain’ (big win)
■ Select an area that is relatively easy to solve (quick win)
■ Use a Project Selection Scorecard (objective selection)
■ Alignment to Business Strategy & Goals
■ Clarity of Processes
■ Clarity of Success Factors
■ Ease of Project Execution (do you have a willing partner?)
■ Projects with higher scores are either more valuable to the
organisation or have less risk of failure
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MDM Success Barriers
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Getting Started – Basic Steps
■Determine ALL data sources and destinations
■Perform a Data Quality Assessment – Knowledge is Power
■ Hard Aspects (Completeness, Accuracy, Consistency)
■ Soft Aspects (Trust, Ease-of-Use)
■ Determine “Master” data items
■Determine Poor Quality Root Causes
■Appoint Data Stewards
■Create and Implement an Improvement Plan
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Considerations for Successful MDM
■ Implement a Data Governance Board
■Set Realistic Objectives
■Limit Project Scope – don’t try to do everything at once
■Get Commitment early from Stakeholders
■Set Clear Responsibilities
■Use a Process focused approach
■ Bad data is not random – often can be addressed through process
change
■Use Change Management
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Summary
■One person said that “MDM is the new bookkeeping”
■He could learn more about how an organisation was
managed from looking at the state of their data than by
looking at the state of their financials
■Successful MDM requires the entire business – not just IT
■High Data Quality improves business function which can
lead to greater efficiency, reduced costs and increased
revenue
■Don’t be a prisoner to the effects of poor data quality; be
the Master of your Domain and claim the power and
benefits of good data quality
Are there any questions?
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