A Presentation Delivered to the Senior Management Board of the NWDA on Data Stewardship and the Impact of Data-Driven Evidence-based PolicyMaking at Business Link Northwest
- Fast Track Data Warehouse offers customers faster time to solution, massive scalability up to 48TB at low cost using industry standard hardware, improved business agility and alignment, and better performance.
- It has two components - SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse and Parallel Data Warehouse. Parallel Data Warehouse offers high performance, high scale, and predictable and flexible deployment.
- The solution provides a hub and spoke architecture allowing flexible business alignment and the ability to add different workloads and user groups while maintaining data consistency.
This document discusses moving from open data to linked open data. It notes that in 30 days, 47 new useful services were created using open data at a total cost of $50,000, with an estimated return on investment of 4,000%. It advocates linking and connecting open government data using shared identifiers and descriptions in order to enable greater innovation, transparency and collaboration across organizations.
Confluence Adoption: Techniques for Growing Your WikiAtlassian
Whether you're starting small, or aiming big, it helps to have a good set of ideas to aid adoption. This session discusses some of the best tools in the wiki adoption toolbox - from where to start, to how best to grow.
Atlassian Speaker: Bill Arconati
Customer Speaker: Michael Mielke of Deutsche Bahn
Key Takeaways:
* Success patterns for wiki adoption
* Roles and activities to aid a successful deployment
* What to try, what to avoid
BigDataEurope - Big Data & Food and AgricultureBigData_Europe
Big Data and the Food & Agriculture domain (vis-a-vis the respective H2020 Societal Challenge) - Opportunities, Challenges and Requirements. As presented and discussed in the public launch of the BigDataEurope project.
A Presentational Synopsis in Brief of the Business Performance Index Project explaining the Key Drivers for the Project: Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Data Integration and its impact in delivering Added Value via an Advocay Model and the establishment of Communities of Practice
WebHound is a tool from SAS that allows companies to collect and analyze large amounts of web traffic data. It helps understand who is visiting company websites, how they interact with the site, and whether the site is delivering what visitors need. WebHound integrates this web data with other enterprise systems like financial, sales, and supply chain data. This provides a holistic view of customer relationships and how the website fits into the overall business. As online sales increase, it is important for companies to optimize their websites and understand customer behavior. WebHound offers powerful data collection, analysis, and reporting to help companies learn from their web traffic and improve their online business.
The document discusses holistic enterprise data management. It introduces Black Watch Data (BWD) and its offerings to help businesses address data management in a holistic way through tools, resources, knowledge and skills. BWD's suite includes software to assist with data governance, continuous data validation and rule enforcement, and master data management. The document outlines BWD's approach to data sustainability through governance, cleansing and enrichment, enforcement, and monitoring processes. It also discusses specific competencies like data migration, integration and technology consolidation.
- Fast Track Data Warehouse offers customers faster time to solution, massive scalability up to 48TB at low cost using industry standard hardware, improved business agility and alignment, and better performance.
- It has two components - SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse and Parallel Data Warehouse. Parallel Data Warehouse offers high performance, high scale, and predictable and flexible deployment.
- The solution provides a hub and spoke architecture allowing flexible business alignment and the ability to add different workloads and user groups while maintaining data consistency.
This document discusses moving from open data to linked open data. It notes that in 30 days, 47 new useful services were created using open data at a total cost of $50,000, with an estimated return on investment of 4,000%. It advocates linking and connecting open government data using shared identifiers and descriptions in order to enable greater innovation, transparency and collaboration across organizations.
Confluence Adoption: Techniques for Growing Your WikiAtlassian
Whether you're starting small, or aiming big, it helps to have a good set of ideas to aid adoption. This session discusses some of the best tools in the wiki adoption toolbox - from where to start, to how best to grow.
Atlassian Speaker: Bill Arconati
Customer Speaker: Michael Mielke of Deutsche Bahn
Key Takeaways:
* Success patterns for wiki adoption
* Roles and activities to aid a successful deployment
* What to try, what to avoid
BigDataEurope - Big Data & Food and AgricultureBigData_Europe
Big Data and the Food & Agriculture domain (vis-a-vis the respective H2020 Societal Challenge) - Opportunities, Challenges and Requirements. As presented and discussed in the public launch of the BigDataEurope project.
A Presentational Synopsis in Brief of the Business Performance Index Project explaining the Key Drivers for the Project: Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Data Integration and its impact in delivering Added Value via an Advocay Model and the establishment of Communities of Practice
WebHound is a tool from SAS that allows companies to collect and analyze large amounts of web traffic data. It helps understand who is visiting company websites, how they interact with the site, and whether the site is delivering what visitors need. WebHound integrates this web data with other enterprise systems like financial, sales, and supply chain data. This provides a holistic view of customer relationships and how the website fits into the overall business. As online sales increase, it is important for companies to optimize their websites and understand customer behavior. WebHound offers powerful data collection, analysis, and reporting to help companies learn from their web traffic and improve their online business.
The document discusses holistic enterprise data management. It introduces Black Watch Data (BWD) and its offerings to help businesses address data management in a holistic way through tools, resources, knowledge and skills. BWD's suite includes software to assist with data governance, continuous data validation and rule enforcement, and master data management. The document outlines BWD's approach to data sustainability through governance, cleansing and enrichment, enforcement, and monitoring processes. It also discusses specific competencies like data migration, integration and technology consolidation.
Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Risk Data GovernanceInfosys
This paper examines the need for a comprehensive data governance solution and highlights how it creates a competitive edge for the financial institution.
This document summarizes how several large companies leveraged SAP NetWeaver BPM and process orchestration to optimize their master data governance and business processes. It provides examples of how companies automated master data distribution, improved data quality, streamlined user access management, and enhanced process visibility and exception handling. Implementation highlights call out specific metrics like improved cycle times, increased processing volumes, and reduced costs.
How to Elevate Enterprise Intelligence in Your OrganisationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3TJcuMe
IDC predicts that the amount of data created across the globe will grow by more than 3x over the next four years (from 12.4ZB in 2021 to more than 40ZB in 2025) and 25% of the global datasphere will consist of real-time data by 2025. Data management and data integration pose significant barriers to leveraging this data.
IDC’s concept of the Data Control Plane can help to address these challenges. It is an architectural layer that combines a holistic set of data activities to manage and control the behavior of people and processes in the use of distributed, diverse, and dynamic data to better support and drive enterprise intelligence initiatives.
Enterprises have traditionally depended on Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and other approaches for Data Integration. This involves data replication and movement from source to a centralized repository and has proven to be costly, cumbersome, and inefficient. The Data Control Plane powered by Data Virtualization is gaining momentum in enterprise architectures by virtue of its logical and real-time data integration and management capabilities.
Catch this on-demand to learn more about the Data Control Plane and how Denodo’s Logical Data Platform can play a critical role in this approach to unlock enterprise intelligence within the APAC Region.
Veritas vision for cloud providers (screenshots)Alexschoone
Veritas Vision provides cloud service providers visibility into the performance and financial impacts of their data centers. It integrates monitoring of data center infrastructure and IT services with business software analytics. This allows visualization of key performance indicators to track availability, costs, capacity, and other metrics in real-time. Veritas Vision gives organizations insights needed to optimize operations and plan infrastructure resources.
Quantum's EH&S Information Management Systemcollinstr
The document describes FacTS, an environmental health and safety information management system from Quantum Compliance Systems. FacTS provides tools to manage compliance reporting, chemical and waste inventories, permits, incident investigations, health and safety issues, and process improvement. It transforms EH&S operations from a cost center to a cost management tool. The core of FacTS is the base system, which includes cornerstones for business practices, inventory, material specifications, and operational organization. It also includes modules for MSDS management, EH&S management, environmental reporting, and health and safety.
Business Situation
The company was founded in 2008, with their SAAS application on dedicated infrastructure hosted with a hosting provider. It went on to be become a popular data visualization provider with bloggers, teachers, government analysts and small business owners, along with Fortune 500 companies and other market research partners who started harnessing the power tool. The business need was to grow further, in terms of storage, bandwidth and processing capacity called for ad hoc needs for scaling the infrastructure, which was limited by SLAs provided by the infrastructure vendor.
The document discusses data-driven marketing and analytics. It provides an overview of how companies can move from simply collecting data to generating insights and taking action. It also discusses key metrics for measuring online success like conversion funnels and discusses how the consumer decision journey has become more circular with online research playing a bigger role.
Business Situation
Zyme had channel visibility challenges pertaining to lack of a cost-effective global data capture infrastructure. There was a clear need for shared master data and definitions across the channel network. Also there was the challenge of poor partner compliance and quality of data reporting.
Raiffeisen Bank Zrt sought to improve network availability and customer service by gaining insights into network performance. Cisco Network Optimization Service provided smart analytics to accelerate data analysis and reduce reporting time by 50%. This visibility into the network health has allowed the bank to optimize infrastructure and respond to issues faster through ongoing support from Cisco experts.
Modernize your Infrastructure and Mobilize Your DataPrecisely
Modernizing your infrastructure can get complicated really fast. The keys to success involve breaking down data silos and moving data to the cloud in real time. But building data pipelines to mobilize your data in the cloud can be time consuming. You need solutions that decrease bandwidth, ensure data consistency, and enable data migration and replication in real-time; solutions that help you build data pipelines in hours, not days.
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn about the trends and pitfalls related to modernizing your infrastructure to cloud, how the pace of on-prem data growth demands accelerating data streaming to analytics platforms, and why mobilizing your data for the cloud improves business outcomes.
The document outlines the agenda for a presentation on architectural options for business intelligence with SAP and Business Objects. The presentation will cover how Business Objects changes BI capabilities with SAP, implications for SAP landscapes, and different architecture options. Sessions will explore ad hoc reporting and analysis, data integration and management, and dashboards and publishing using Business Objects tools.
Alan Thompson: Risk stratification and predictive modelling to support commis...Nuffield Trust
The document provides an overview of how nine Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in South Central are using risk stratification and predictive modeling tools, specifically the Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) system. Over 240 practices across 20 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are now using ACG, covering a population of 1.9 million people. ACG outputs are supporting key areas like risk stratification of populations, disease profiling, resource management, and case management. The infrastructure to support ACG took over 9 months to establish but addresses data sharing requirements.
The document discusses analytical banking solutions from SAP that provide comprehensive support for business intelligence, financial performance management, governance, risk, and compliance, and finance and risk management. It summarizes the key capabilities of SAP solutions in enterprise data warehousing, business intelligence, financial performance management, governance/risk/compliance, and finance/risk management. The document emphasizes how SAP solutions can help banks create a single version of truth for information management to address business challenges.
Datalicious is a data analytics agency founded in late 2007 that has grown to provide 360-degree data services. It has a team of analysts and developers with expertise in web analytics, data modeling, and executing smart data-driven marketing campaigns. The document outlines Datalicious' history and services, which include collecting data from various platforms, generating insights through analytics and modeling, and applying those insights through targeted campaigns and marketing automation. Examples of the types of clients and industries served are also provided.
The Longview Integration Suite (LVIS) provides data integration between Longview 7 and any data sources. LVIS simplifies and automates the integration process through a graphical interface and pre-built connectors. It extracts and transforms data from hundreds of sources, loads it into Longview, and automates scheduled or triggered integration. LVIS helps customers overcome data integration challenges and provides benefits like faster planning and reduced costs.
The document contrasts four potential organizational structures for Virgin.com: 1) Brand Franchise, 2) Brand Franchise & Management Service Provider, 3) 'Business Format Franchise', and 4) Multi-Line Businesses. It evaluates the structures against criteria like customer interaction, IT interaction, and operations interaction. The Multi-Line Businesses structure best meets the criteria of creating a strong, branded customer experience integrated across business lines. However, it has high costs. The next best options are the 'Business Format Franchise' and Brand Franchise & Management Service Provider structures. Technology issues include data privacy, security, and ensuring interfaces are tailored to each business line. The discussion is anchored by noting Virgin's business lines are in
How Analytics Can Transform the U.S. Retail Banking SectorCognizant
To regain customer trust, U.S. retail banks must seriously consider using analytics to improve decision-making, uncover unseen innovation opportunities and improve compliance.
The document discusses weaknesses in the financial services industry and the need for a new approach to managing information. It proposes a concept called "The Bank at your Fingertips" which would build on existing bank data in a simple, structured way to provide flexible analytics. This would allow information to be prepared and analyzed along existing bank structures in a more dynamic and timely manner than traditional systems. The concept aims to provide integrated risk reporting and customizable dashboards using a balanced scorecard approach.
The document discusses the importance of data and analytics for organizations. It notes that data is now the world's most valuable resource, not oil. It provides examples of how organizations are using AWS services like data lakes, machine learning, and data migration to unlock innovation from their data and gain strategic business advantages.
The Labour Party does not understand or represent rural communities according to the Countryside Alliance. Labour sees rural areas as an afterthought and focuses on policies aimed at urban voters rather than addressing rural issues. In contrast, the Conservative Party and Conservative councils better understand rural needs and have a track record of delivering services that support rural communities. Labour's rural policies overemphasize issues like banning fox hunting and fail to engage stakeholders in rural areas.
Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Risk Data GovernanceInfosys
This paper examines the need for a comprehensive data governance solution and highlights how it creates a competitive edge for the financial institution.
This document summarizes how several large companies leveraged SAP NetWeaver BPM and process orchestration to optimize their master data governance and business processes. It provides examples of how companies automated master data distribution, improved data quality, streamlined user access management, and enhanced process visibility and exception handling. Implementation highlights call out specific metrics like improved cycle times, increased processing volumes, and reduced costs.
How to Elevate Enterprise Intelligence in Your OrganisationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3TJcuMe
IDC predicts that the amount of data created across the globe will grow by more than 3x over the next four years (from 12.4ZB in 2021 to more than 40ZB in 2025) and 25% of the global datasphere will consist of real-time data by 2025. Data management and data integration pose significant barriers to leveraging this data.
IDC’s concept of the Data Control Plane can help to address these challenges. It is an architectural layer that combines a holistic set of data activities to manage and control the behavior of people and processes in the use of distributed, diverse, and dynamic data to better support and drive enterprise intelligence initiatives.
Enterprises have traditionally depended on Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and other approaches for Data Integration. This involves data replication and movement from source to a centralized repository and has proven to be costly, cumbersome, and inefficient. The Data Control Plane powered by Data Virtualization is gaining momentum in enterprise architectures by virtue of its logical and real-time data integration and management capabilities.
Catch this on-demand to learn more about the Data Control Plane and how Denodo’s Logical Data Platform can play a critical role in this approach to unlock enterprise intelligence within the APAC Region.
Veritas vision for cloud providers (screenshots)Alexschoone
Veritas Vision provides cloud service providers visibility into the performance and financial impacts of their data centers. It integrates monitoring of data center infrastructure and IT services with business software analytics. This allows visualization of key performance indicators to track availability, costs, capacity, and other metrics in real-time. Veritas Vision gives organizations insights needed to optimize operations and plan infrastructure resources.
Quantum's EH&S Information Management Systemcollinstr
The document describes FacTS, an environmental health and safety information management system from Quantum Compliance Systems. FacTS provides tools to manage compliance reporting, chemical and waste inventories, permits, incident investigations, health and safety issues, and process improvement. It transforms EH&S operations from a cost center to a cost management tool. The core of FacTS is the base system, which includes cornerstones for business practices, inventory, material specifications, and operational organization. It also includes modules for MSDS management, EH&S management, environmental reporting, and health and safety.
Business Situation
The company was founded in 2008, with their SAAS application on dedicated infrastructure hosted with a hosting provider. It went on to be become a popular data visualization provider with bloggers, teachers, government analysts and small business owners, along with Fortune 500 companies and other market research partners who started harnessing the power tool. The business need was to grow further, in terms of storage, bandwidth and processing capacity called for ad hoc needs for scaling the infrastructure, which was limited by SLAs provided by the infrastructure vendor.
The document discusses data-driven marketing and analytics. It provides an overview of how companies can move from simply collecting data to generating insights and taking action. It also discusses key metrics for measuring online success like conversion funnels and discusses how the consumer decision journey has become more circular with online research playing a bigger role.
Business Situation
Zyme had channel visibility challenges pertaining to lack of a cost-effective global data capture infrastructure. There was a clear need for shared master data and definitions across the channel network. Also there was the challenge of poor partner compliance and quality of data reporting.
Raiffeisen Bank Zrt sought to improve network availability and customer service by gaining insights into network performance. Cisco Network Optimization Service provided smart analytics to accelerate data analysis and reduce reporting time by 50%. This visibility into the network health has allowed the bank to optimize infrastructure and respond to issues faster through ongoing support from Cisco experts.
Modernize your Infrastructure and Mobilize Your DataPrecisely
Modernizing your infrastructure can get complicated really fast. The keys to success involve breaking down data silos and moving data to the cloud in real time. But building data pipelines to mobilize your data in the cloud can be time consuming. You need solutions that decrease bandwidth, ensure data consistency, and enable data migration and replication in real-time; solutions that help you build data pipelines in hours, not days.
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn about the trends and pitfalls related to modernizing your infrastructure to cloud, how the pace of on-prem data growth demands accelerating data streaming to analytics platforms, and why mobilizing your data for the cloud improves business outcomes.
The document outlines the agenda for a presentation on architectural options for business intelligence with SAP and Business Objects. The presentation will cover how Business Objects changes BI capabilities with SAP, implications for SAP landscapes, and different architecture options. Sessions will explore ad hoc reporting and analysis, data integration and management, and dashboards and publishing using Business Objects tools.
Alan Thompson: Risk stratification and predictive modelling to support commis...Nuffield Trust
The document provides an overview of how nine Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in South Central are using risk stratification and predictive modeling tools, specifically the Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) system. Over 240 practices across 20 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are now using ACG, covering a population of 1.9 million people. ACG outputs are supporting key areas like risk stratification of populations, disease profiling, resource management, and case management. The infrastructure to support ACG took over 9 months to establish but addresses data sharing requirements.
The document discusses analytical banking solutions from SAP that provide comprehensive support for business intelligence, financial performance management, governance, risk, and compliance, and finance and risk management. It summarizes the key capabilities of SAP solutions in enterprise data warehousing, business intelligence, financial performance management, governance/risk/compliance, and finance/risk management. The document emphasizes how SAP solutions can help banks create a single version of truth for information management to address business challenges.
Datalicious is a data analytics agency founded in late 2007 that has grown to provide 360-degree data services. It has a team of analysts and developers with expertise in web analytics, data modeling, and executing smart data-driven marketing campaigns. The document outlines Datalicious' history and services, which include collecting data from various platforms, generating insights through analytics and modeling, and applying those insights through targeted campaigns and marketing automation. Examples of the types of clients and industries served are also provided.
The Longview Integration Suite (LVIS) provides data integration between Longview 7 and any data sources. LVIS simplifies and automates the integration process through a graphical interface and pre-built connectors. It extracts and transforms data from hundreds of sources, loads it into Longview, and automates scheduled or triggered integration. LVIS helps customers overcome data integration challenges and provides benefits like faster planning and reduced costs.
The document contrasts four potential organizational structures for Virgin.com: 1) Brand Franchise, 2) Brand Franchise & Management Service Provider, 3) 'Business Format Franchise', and 4) Multi-Line Businesses. It evaluates the structures against criteria like customer interaction, IT interaction, and operations interaction. The Multi-Line Businesses structure best meets the criteria of creating a strong, branded customer experience integrated across business lines. However, it has high costs. The next best options are the 'Business Format Franchise' and Brand Franchise & Management Service Provider structures. Technology issues include data privacy, security, and ensuring interfaces are tailored to each business line. The discussion is anchored by noting Virgin's business lines are in
How Analytics Can Transform the U.S. Retail Banking SectorCognizant
To regain customer trust, U.S. retail banks must seriously consider using analytics to improve decision-making, uncover unseen innovation opportunities and improve compliance.
The document discusses weaknesses in the financial services industry and the need for a new approach to managing information. It proposes a concept called "The Bank at your Fingertips" which would build on existing bank data in a simple, structured way to provide flexible analytics. This would allow information to be prepared and analyzed along existing bank structures in a more dynamic and timely manner than traditional systems. The concept aims to provide integrated risk reporting and customizable dashboards using a balanced scorecard approach.
The document discusses the importance of data and analytics for organizations. It notes that data is now the world's most valuable resource, not oil. It provides examples of how organizations are using AWS services like data lakes, machine learning, and data migration to unlock innovation from their data and gain strategic business advantages.
The Labour Party does not understand or represent rural communities according to the Countryside Alliance. Labour sees rural areas as an afterthought and focuses on policies aimed at urban voters rather than addressing rural issues. In contrast, the Conservative Party and Conservative councils better understand rural needs and have a track record of delivering services that support rural communities. Labour's rural policies overemphasize issues like banning fox hunting and fail to engage stakeholders in rural areas.
A paper on the Coronavirus outbreak which examines a back to the future return to a realist version of international relations and why a more cosmopolitan view of inter-state relations stressing the expertise of medical decision-makers is to be preferred founded on the institutional structure of the WHO - World Health Organisation.
Ged Mirfin is a 51-year-old Conservative councilor who has served on Ribble Valley Borough Council since 2011. He has extensive committee experience and currently serves in leadership roles for the Ribble Valley Conservative Association. Mirfin has campaign experience managing online campaigns in the Hyndburn constituency. He has published several papers on topics related to politics, including on political arrogance, inertia, and authenticity. Mirfin's work has received media attention and some of his papers are among the most widely viewed on their topics.
This document discusses the demographic and political views of "blue collar conservatives" in northern England. It describes them as typically working class people who have worked in skilled trades, value self-reliance and financial responsibility, and own their own homes. They are innately conservative in their social and economic views due to having secured a stable lifestyle through hard work. However, they feel recent governments have not understood their way of life or protected their interests regarding issues like pensions, inflation, and overdevelopment. As a result, they are becoming more skeptical of the Conservative party and potentially turning to UKIP unless their concerns are better addressed.
This document provides a lengthy summary and analysis of the concept of political hypocrisy. It discusses how hypocrisy has become pervasive in modern politics and has led to increased public distrust. It explores philosophical perspectives on hypocrisy from thinkers like Hobbes and explores how hypocrisy can be a necessary part of politics when done in moderation. However, excessive or damaging hypocrisy that misrepresents a politician's character or positions can undermine trust in the political system. The document also discusses how politics may be transitioning to a "magical realist" phase where the line between fact and fiction is blurred, due in part to the role of advanced technology and media.
A paper which analyses the concept of Political Inertia from a number of different theoretical perspectives including Adversarial Politics, Consensus Politics, Failure to Deliver Economic Growth, Sequencing of Political Democracy, Social Acceleration, \M|ixed |Economy Models, Path Dependency, the \Winner-Takes-All-Politics thesis, Political Drift, the Political Science of Lobbying, the Off-Center Republican Revolution Thesis, the Captured Economy Model and Economic Rent Seeking, and the Decline of Nations Thesis and the Logic of Collective Action.
A Paper which discusses the concept of Political Arrogance. It seeks to do this by reference to the UK context. It focuses on the notion of political immaturity and political arrogance as a block against political change. It focuses on the gap between belief systems and emergent political reality – and the notion of an Outmoded Worldview. It looks both at those Prime Ministers that have been behind the curve of history and those that have sought to pre-empt it. It uses as a case study example the 2017 General Election before showing that political arrogance is a mark both of strength and weakness when utilised in different circumstances. It then goes on to discuss how political arrogance can morph into hubris. It concludes that a gap has opened up between mass and elite publics because of politically arrogant behaviour arguing that this is likely to result in political instability which is only likely to be resolved by a large scale replacement of the political elites.
Ged Mirfin is a data analytics consultant and marketing strategist with extensive experience. He has won national awards for his work with big data and business intelligence projects. Mirfin has expertise in data mining, analysis, segmentation, and profiling large datasets to provide customer insights. He also has a background in direct marketing, communications strategies, and political campaign management. Currently, Mirfin works as an independent consultant and holds positions on local government and nonprofit boards.
Political authenticity villains or the virtuousGed Mirfin
The paper presents a wideannging analysis of the concept of Political Authenticity. It focuses on the concept of charismatic authority. It seeks to diffeentiate between true and false political authenticity and agues that it has become a media construct, a P.R. tool to enable politicians to scale the heights of power. It further argues that charismatic ledaers espousing political authenticity are part of the counter elite who have emerged from the political establishment at times of political crisis
A Flyer for the shortly to be relaunched and rebranded Pet Role Trust. Kevin Horkin is the media figurehead of the organisation. Kevin is a well known TV Pet Specialist and Presenter on a wide range of animal themed TV Programmes.as well as Celebrity & Pet Columnist who has appeared in a wide range of National Newspapers & Magazines. He is also a highly acclaimed national campaigner for Responsible Pet Ownership. Ged Mirfin wrote the copy for the leaflet
The death of aspiration the end of work and the emergent culture of middle ...Ged Mirfin
This document summarizes several authors' views on the impact of globalization and technology on middle class jobs and economic security. It discusses how automation, outsourcing, and the decline of manufacturing have reduced stable, middle-income jobs. This has increased economic anxiety and uncertainty for many in the middle class. The document also analyzes the political implications, including a growing protest vote for parties like UKIP that offer simple solutions to complex economic problems.
An Analysis of the Electoral Socio-Demographics in the Oldham & Royton Constituency which draws on the literature of Blue Labour, the Revolt on the Right and Co-operative Councils as explanations for the rise of Populist Parties on the Radical Right in the Constituency
Kevin Horkin is the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Hyndburn. He is holding a mini referendum on Europe where voters can cast their vote on whether the UK should remain in or leave the European Union. The poster provides information on how to cast a vote and lists the promoters, designers, and printers involved in producing the poster.
A Presentation prepared to inform participants in the inaugural workshop about the proposed Fylde Coast LEP on the role and purpose of Local Enterprise Partnership
A Presentation on Data Stewardship & Data Advocacy - the Benefits and Advantages of Implementing a Data Strategy for Businesses originally presented to the Directorial Team at Business Link North West and the North West Development Agency
The document discusses the role of a Chief Data Officer in establishing a data governance structure and data quality management program. It notes that currently, data ownership and management is fragmented across different departments with no single party responsible. A CDO would create rules and policies for data governance, establish a data quality team, and ensure standards and accountability for high quality data as a strategic asset. This would help address issues like high costs of poor data quality and system failures due to bad data.
A high wire balancing act conservative voice paperGed Mirfin
A Paper entitled A High Wire Balancing Act – Reshuffles, Reform, Modernization and Policy Making in the Coalition: UKIP & Cameron’s Attempt to Overcome the Limitations of Electoral Groupthink published on the Conservative Voice Web-Site which can also be downloaded here: http://www.conservativevoice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/A-High-Wire-Balancing-Act-Conservative-Voice-Paper.pdf
The accompanying article Are We All the Victims of Electoral Groupthink Now? – The Death of the Middle Classes & Reshuffles, Reform, Modernization and Policy Making in the Coalition can be accessed here: http://www.conservativevoice.co.uk/category/popular/
3. The Curse of Bad Data
•Data is now far easier & cheaper to gather, store, analyze and disseminate than ever
before
•Unfortunately this means that it is much easier to collect data that is inaccurate, out-
of-date or at worst simply wrong
•Results in a lack of trust of data by end-users
•Decision-makers are thus forced trust to their own intuition.
•Tendency to rely on the infallibility of their own “judgemental opinion” because it is
simple & convenient.
•Results in a “Traditionally it has always been done that way mentality”.
•No one is able to prove conclusively otherwise or show policymakers they are wrong.
•The result – badly formulated and more poorly applied policy!
•Works fine in a benign economic environment. In a harsher climate when assumptions
are being fundamentally challenged it is much more difficult to defend the indefensible
and to find a solution when you are sometimes forced to justify not only your very
existence but the funding rationale!
•Need for Hard evidence: high quality validated quantitative data
•Is why Policymakers have turned to a data-driven approach
4. Governing by Numbers: Data-driven
evidence based policymaking: what is it?
•Collection and analysis of data to spotlight problem areas and
potential solutions – data capture & accessibility!
•Development of quantifiable measures & indices to assess
policy performance and draw comparisons across similar
circumstances, geographical boundaries or peer groups so
“best practice” can be identified & widened – segmentation &
benchmarking!
•Public dissemination of data and metrics/indices to assist in
policy formulation, policy making and ultimately in assessing
the impact of policy and policy performance – should it be
done? has it been done? and has it been done well?
5. Data Driven Evidence-based Policy
Formulation
Evidence- Evidence-
influenced based
BLNW Data Warehouse
Experian
Aim: Facilitate change
Northwest
from Anecdotal &
Business Judgmental to
Evidence-based
Database Policy formulation
Evidence-
Opinion-based influenced
Political Inputs Policy Making Environment
6. +100% Building of Data
Lack of clean
+90%
BLNWs Capability Levels: Warehouse to
separate and
up-to-date
prospect
report on new data
marketing data
delivers highly
+80% How Data has affected this functional web
begins to impact The
on BLNW’s development of
accessed granular
+70% ability to meet a Web
reporting capability
Data Import into CRM penetration Accessed
+60% - manually fills the targets Reporting
system with very poor Dashboard with
+50% quality & aged data the ability to
from legacy systems. represent data
+40% via GIS Mapping
BLNW Capability
software and the
+30% development of
a Marketing
Data
+20%
Warehouse
Arrival of taking BLNW
+10% Experian NBD Reporting &
Poor attempt to with access to Analytical
0% address data quality Yell, Thomson, Capabilities to
CRM 3 – Powerful issue via “Data Commercial, & the Next Level.
-10% Engine. Huge Cleanse” carried out Origins Mosaic
Development by Third Party results gives BLNW
Potential. Vanilla in the overwriting of access to a rich
-20% Version no current data with
Customisation. even older data. This
Rate data source
which it can be
-30% affected CRM system segmented to
and hampered target specific
-40% operational customer details
performance in a scientific
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manner
-60% 1% -1%
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7. Experian’s NBD
536k
100k
-Experian profiled Business Link data and found 536k
businesses (both Ltd. And unincorporated) at location in its
-Business Link had 100k company records in its
National Business database for the Northwest.
database.
-Business Link acquired the data from Experian. Each Experian
-The companies had been assisted by Business Link over
record had in excess of 180 data characteristics (appends)
the last 20 months
-The extra data records allowed a significant level of analytics to
-The data captured was used to satisfy contract outputs
be done. The data had access to classification systems (YELL
and as such was very specific Thompson) and allowed for detailed segmentation
-We needed to increase the data set both in terms of size -One of the Primary data attributes was “Risk Scores and
and data richness Financial Performance data”
8. Data Attributes
•Data is “real time” - updated monthly and in case
Commercial Risk Data the plan is fortnightly with Weekly
Alerts for Businesses experiencing a serious worsening in
their performance
•Is the first (b2b) business profiling system in the public
sector
•Offers real time intelligence to support our efforts to
address the current market conditions
•Data is very granular and can be segmented to very
specific levels
•Key data segmentation is geographic (down to postcode)
and sectoral (RES, SIC group, Yell classification code,
Thompson directory classification code)
9. Benefits to Key Stakeholders
Marketing Operations Executive Cluster Orgs. NWDA
Build increased Improve take-up Meeting of Make definitive Provision of
penetration of intensive Strategic pronouncements relevant and up-
amongst assists for Priorities: To be about the to-date
service users Broker Team by recognized as effectiveness of information on
through increasing lead the leader on BLNW services emerging
delivered to the business trends
improved generation regional
NW Business allowing the
segmentation business
Community NWDA to service
and targeting intelligence and including requests from
playing a vital Membership & Government,
role in Cluster Orgs, Local Political Parties
informing Councils, & Lobbying Orgs
business Politicians &
support policy Opinion Leaders
making
“Advanced “Vastly “Delivering “Sharing of Key “One Version of
Customer Improved Lead Strategic Data across the the Truth”
Segmentation” Quality” Priorities” Region”
INTERNAL The Business Support Environment EXTERNAL
10. Data becoming more relevant
for decision making bodies
Internal
Sector specialists
and cluster
management
teams
First interaction
with third party
data consumers
and political
oganisations
11. Dependency building
Business Support Community Partners look to BLNW for Data
& Analysis as their first point of call
Internal Sector
Geographically
dispersed bodies
require data to
confirm Business
support activities
or to quantify the
impact of future
plans and policies
12. Allows Business Support
Community Partners to
Engage with Decision Makers
on an Evidence-Based Basis
Internal Sector Geography
Local hierarchy of
business support
functions demand
input to decision
making and
assessment of
economic impact.
The User Base is Being Significantly Widened
13. The Response to companies in the North West
adversely affected by the current economic downturn
The BPI (“Business Performance Index”: A Consolidation of
Business Intelligence
Internal Sector Geography Local
Govt. Demand for joined up
information sources and
“one version of the truth”
among all business
support organisations.
Tie together regional
strategy and delivery with
a system of quantifiable
evidence based results
14. The BPI: Identifying High Risk Businesses
Risk Category Description
Maximum risk High value of unsatisfied CCJs, accounts overdue, start-up
business with adverse data, proprietor with adverse data or
maiden accounts show loss
High risk Large company with weak balance sheet, medium sized firm with
very weak balance sheet, combination of above average risk
features, start-up with adverse trading
Above Large company with very weak balance sheet, medium to small
average firms with (high levels of credit search, payment difficulty, weak
balance sheets), start-up firm without adverse information
The BPI Portal: The Hub of the Action for
Response Framework
• Experian/BLNW – Business Performance Index Structured
Intelligence that can be immediately disseminated to partners
• Business Link to provide region-wide data-pool and reporting at
Regional, Sub-regional and Local levels
15. The Action for Response Hub
Figure 1 Data Capture >20 Redundancies
within 90 days
CLUSTERS
& TRADE
ASSOCIATIONS NWDA
TUC / UNIONS HR1 to BERR
LOCAL JOB CENTRE
AUTHORITIES PLUS
BUSINESS LINK
DATA WAREHOUSE
SUB-
GOVERNMENT
REGIONAL
OFFICE NW
PARTNERS
RECORD BY COMPANY BUSINESS
CHAMBERS OF Company Name LINK NW
COMMERCE Registered Number
Company Address
Local Authority & Ward
Sector
Turnover & GVA Estimate
No. of Perm employees
No. of Jobs at Risk
ESTABLISH RAPID RESPONSE TEAM
DEVELOP STRATEGY /POLICY FOR
SUPPORTING COMPANIES IN CRISIS
COMMUNICATE STRATEGY /POLICY TO
PARTNERS (JCP, LSC, BLNW, TRADE
ASSOCIATIONS ) & INTERNAL PARTNERS
16. The Power of the BPI: Project Rapier – Liverpool Vision’s Objective
of Spending £10M to Save 40 Businesses specifically in the Retail
Sector by End Q1 2009
• How do you Identify a……………………..
•…Company that is at least of
Above Average Risk
•Which is based in Liverpool
•Which Employs 50 or more
Liverpool (13,704) Employees at Site
•Specifically in the Central Ward
•Which is in the Retail Sector
•Whose payment profile is
Employs 50 or more (207) deteriorating
Central Ward (66) £729.71 £48,309.18 £151,515.15
In Retail Sector (4)
Deteriorating Payment Profile (1) £2.5M £10M
This information is based on data provided by Experian. The data has been subject to further analysis by Business Link North West.
17. And that Business was?
• Demonstrates that the
Liverpool Vision’s
approach needs
revising
• Also demonstrates
that coordinated
action by Local
Authorities has the
ability to provide
financial assistance to
some of the big High
Street Retail Chains if
they so wished
18. Data Driven Evidence-Based: BLNW
Making an Impact
Decision Making Based on Intuition, Judgemental Opinion or
Data Driven Evidence-based Decision Making
Tradition
Joined-Up programmes based on highly focussed
Disjointed programmes and policy initiatives targeted strategies to address identified need based on
documented evidence
Budget allocations to programmes based on data-
Budgetary decisions based on prior practice and historic priorities
informed needs
Spending allocations based on volume of voices of special Spending allocations based on market failure gaps as
interests and eligibility criteria of existing regimes indicated by the data
Detailed reporting on a range of indices to relevant
Generic reports to all stakeholders based on historic aggregate stakeholders on a regularised basis - weekly, fortnightly,
data inappropriate for policymaking at a a micro-economic level monthly, quarterly, half yearly based on agreed service
level agreements
Goal setting based on accurate estimates of the
Goal-setting by board members, administrators, project managers financial consequences of proposed policy options
with special treatment given to pet projects and initiatives or the allowing for prioritisation thus helping to predict the
current fads of the day. impact of policy options to stakeholders in a “winners
and losers” format
Highly focussed report-back and monitoring forums
Death by committee: Undue focus on ensuring that money is spent which ensure that not only is money spent well but also
and that it is seen to be spent that the impact of spending can be tracked and
measured