This document discusses defining the business justification or "why" for a master data management (MDM) program. It covers:
1. Defining the business perspective on why undertake an MDM program by focusing on problems to solve rather than technical details. This includes categorizing and prioritizing business benefits.
2. Prioritizing where to start the program by focusing efforts on solving business problems.
3. The next part will cover calculating the total cost of ownership and "rightsizing" the initial scope of the MDM program, including which data domains, functions, or organizations to include.
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Defining the Why: Justification, Prioritization and Rightsizing for MDM
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Part 2: Defining the ‘Why’
SELLING MDM TO
LEADERSHIP
6 Part Live Panel Series
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Part 1: Organizational Readiness
• What Does “Ready” Look Like?
Part 2: Defining the Why
• Justification – Prioritization - Rightsizing
Part 3: TCO Calculation
• Solution Complexity Drives TCO
Part 4: Program Scope
• Quick Wins – Where to Focus – Implementation Styles
Part 5: Evaluation Pitfalls
• Business Outcomes – Selection Criteria – What to Look for
Part 6: Beyond the 1st Use-Case
• MDM as a Way of Life – Operational vs. Analytical MDM
PANEL TOPICS
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Bill O’Kane
Former Gartner Analyst and Profisee VP & MDM Strategist; Bill served for eight years as Vice President of Data and
Analytics and Magic Quadrant lead author at Gartner.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Christopher Dwight
VP of Customer Success at Profisee; Christopher has been in the enterprise information management and master
data management (MDM) space for more than 20 years.
Harbert Bernard
Value Management Consultant at Profisee; Harbert utilizes his expertise around building business cases for
investments in technology to develop BIRs (Business Impact Roadmaps) for a range of enterprises.
Martin Boyd
VP Product Marketing at Profisee; Martin has over ten years’ experience in MDM, governance and data quality.
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WHAT, HOW, WHY
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Reduce the Sales Cycle
Increase Customer Retention
Increase Market Share
Improve Cross-Sell/Up-Sell
Improve Vendor Terms
Refine Low Inventory Model
Reduce Regulatory Exposure
Why
You should build your Impact Roadmap around the why
Survivorship
Cleansing
Matching
Business Rules
Canonical Data Models
Workflow Processes
Integration
How
To evaluate technology based on the how
Digital Transformation
Better Marketing Data
Consolidated Data
Centralized information
360 degree view
Customer Segmentation
Improved Data Integration
High Quality data
What
Most build an Impact Roadmap around the what
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1.Program Justification – why do anything?
2. Prioritization – where to start?
3. Rightsizing – picking scope
• data domains, functional, organization, etc.
DEFINE THE WHY – THE BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE
Justification:
You may be able to tell a story around why you need MDM, but do you really understand what's wrong.
Should you do something or nothing? If nothing now, when will be the right time?
Why do you think you need MDM?
Prioritization
You can't do it all and you certainly can't do it all at once, so where should you start?
What order should you do this in?
What are the best ways incrementalize your MDM projects with a focus on quick wins?
Rightsizing
Break into chunks and show quick wins
Think big, start small
Don't solve a $1M problem with a $10M solution.
What solution do you actually need to solve the problem?
Here we have the Data Management Journey Quadrant. Every company or organization is in a different place in their Data Management journey.
Let's look at what's different about the 10% of organizations that HAVE adopted a STRATEGIC approach to managing their data and the those that havaen't.
One the left axis is MDM Viewpoint. Companies with a broad MDM Viewpoint understand that MDM can solve a wide array of data challenges. On the bottom is Business Engagement. Companies with high Business Engagement have business stakeholders who understand data management, the value it can deliver, and are bought in.
The 10% of companies that have adopted MDM are mostly in the top right quadrant, called Strategic. Why is this, it's because they have been able to justify the traditional Massive Data Management projects, as well as, have both IT and the Business aligned on the business outcome of MDM.
At the same time, every company we meet with would like to be able to do all of these things. Everyone would like better their data quality or to improve cross system integrations.
What's stopping them?
When faced with the prospect of a Massive Data Management project, which has traditionally been the only option imposed by MDM vendors, the smart ones, have done nothing. It's been too costly, too complex, and it takes too long to get the results needed for a fast moving, fast changing business.
What does that mean for the rest of the 90%? Well, they're in a different phase on their data management journey.
(THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN RELATE TO THE ROOM WITH SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR STRATEGIC BUSINESS INITATIVE, OR PROJECT.)
Some organizations have a broad vision for data management, but limited buy in for the business. They may have a CDO, CIO or other IT executive who sees numerous opportunities for data management to help the business, but are unable to get the business to buy-in.
Other organizations have IT resources that see perhaps a single data management problem they'd like to quickly solve, but need an easy entry point so they can show some results.
Organizations in the Searching quadrant have business users who are aware of data challenges, such as a CMO who know CRM is a mess, but aren't aware of data management as a solution to their problems.
AGAIN, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNTY TO ENGAGE THE PROSPECT AND ASK WHERE THEY FEEL THEY ARE IN THEIR JOURNEY.
Now let's take a look at how Profisee helps companies on this journey.
Justification:
You may be able to tell a story around why you need MDM, but do you really understand what's wrong.
Should you do something or nothing? If nothing now, when will be the right time?
Why do you think you need MDM?
Prioritization
You can't do it all and you certainly can't do it all at once, so where should you start?
What order should you do this in?
What are the best ways incrementalize your MDM projects with a focus on quick wins?
Rightsizing
Break into chunks and show quick wins
Think big, start small
Don't solve a $1M problem with a $10M solution.
What solution do you actually need to solve the problem?
The final result is a board-ready analysis that generally gets rave reviews from our customers.
Again – the reason we want to work with our customers on a BIR analysis is that we a re customer-focused and outcome-oriented. We want to help our customers deliver a business result and guide their future MDM journey. Without a roadmap to the business impact, our customers risk wandering in the dark and spending way too many cycles on trial-and-error approaches, and that's not good for anybody.
Justification:
You may be able to tell a story around why you need MDM, but do you really understand what's wrong.
Should you do something or nothing? If nothing now, when will be the right time?
Why do you think you need MDM?
Prioritization
You can't do it all and you certainly can't do it all at once, so where should you start?
What order should you do this in?
What are the best ways incrementalize your MDM projects with a focus on quick wins?
Rightsizing
Break into chunks and show quick wins
Think big, start small
Don't solve a $1M problem with a $10M solution.
What solution do you actually need to solve the problem?