A holistic approach is applied to a scoping study to ensure that the consequences of any future recommendation on business process, business metrics, organization and systems are thoroughly understood. The following areas are analyzed in depth.

PEOPLE

• Business units impacted by data
• Relevant geographical locations

PROCESS

• Business strategies impacted by data
• Business processes and performance metrics impacted by data
• Financial costs and benefits of data improvements

TECHNOLOGY

• Key data types
• Business systems impacted by data

• The mission, objectives and benefits of a new enterprise DLM strategy including a value proposition and business case

• The organizational and technical scope of a new enterprise DLM strategy

• A high level "as is" logical data model containing types, relationship and flows of data

• Approach needed to execute the new enterprise DLM strategy successfully, including a high level best practice data governance framework

• Profiles of top data types including volumes, data quality issues, ownership and recommendations on how to consolidate, cleans and enrich those data types, plus results from our DHC process

• High level overview of future systems landscape including hardware, software, and network

• Timeline, project organization, resources and budget required to execute the new enterprise DLM strategy

• Recommended organizational changes, their issues and impact

• Overall critical success factors and risks

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