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Information Architecture
Best practices for strategic advantage


Day 1
Information Architecture Strategy

1. Creating an information advantage.
     The business mandate for information
     strategy and architecture.
•    What is information strategy?
       - Differences between data and information
       - Business mandate for information strategy
•    Why do organizations need Information
      Architecture (IA)?
       - Information as an organizational asset
       - Support for organization’s visions and goals
       - Limitations of the current model

2. State of the art.
     The evolving discipline of IA.
•    Organizations’ hierarchy of 5 information
      needs
       - Capturing internal and external
          communication
       - Managing operations and finance
       - Providing insightful, analytical information
       - Knowledge access and retention
       - Simplifying the information landscape

3. The information portfolio.
     Managing the information asset mix.
•    Enterprise-wide Information Architecture
•    Ontologies: Managing a semantic enterprise
•    Leveraging enterprise metadata models
•    Information-driven application architecture

4. Managing the risk.
     Governance, security, and privacy policy.
•    Information governance
•    Ownership rights and accessibility
•    Privacy and security policies
•    Information compliance policies

5. Human capital dimensions.
     Information Architecture organization.
•    Current state of information in organizations
•    Characteristics of an information-centric organization
•    The IA team and roles
•    Extending the vision to business, development and vendor units
•    Evolving the IA organization: Transitional steps

6. Learning from best practices.
     Real world case study.
•    Identifying the organizational vision
•    Creating a strategic roadmap
•    Building a business case for implementation
•    Analyzing the needed resources and budgets
•    Planning implementation

Days 2 & 3
Implementing Information Architecture

1. Roadmap to Information Architecture.
     Components of enterprise information.
•    Enterprise/ Reference data models
•    Operational data architecture
•    Business intelligence architecture
•    Unstructured data management
•    Knowledge management
•    Data integration

2. Creating a user-centric environment.
     IA management and delivery.
•    Ensuring information quality
   - Information verification and certification
•    Managing performance and measurement
•    Information presentation and delivery
       - Role of service-oriented architecture (SOA)
       - Enterprise portals
       - Digital dashboard
       - Balanced scorecards and key
         performance indicators (KPIs)
•    Master data management
•    Managing information in multiple languages
•    The web, usability and human factors

3. Enterprise currency.
     Metadata the medium of exchange.
•    Starting a metadata management initiative
•    Business, technical, process, and usage segments
•    Metadata categories and management

4. Managing IA implementation.
     Ensuring business alignment.
•    Business and IT alignment strategies for success
•    Shared-responsibility model
•    Identifying stakeholders
•    Effectively capturing and prioritizing business requirements
•    Creating a project plan
       - Calculating return-on-investment
       - Considerations for long and short term visions
•    Aligning enterprise information and application architecture teams

5. Building innovative and relevant solutions.
     Application and enterprise level modeling.
•    Building information assets through models
•    Business, application, and enterprise
      modeling
•    Promotion of an application model to an
      enterprise model
•    Operational vs. analytical modeling

6. Insider perspectives.
     Best practices for Information Architecture.
•    Avoiding potential pitfalls
•    Creating an organization’s holistic
      view of data
•    Identifying excellent search scenarios
•    Utilization of the right resources
•    Creating a sound path towards
      implementation

7. Achieving integration.
     Real world case study.
•    Creating Information Architecture for structured and unstructured data
•    Allowing for holistic search across both data types
•    Assuring quality and semantic integrity
•    Elevating the model to an enterprise level

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"Excellent and informative session."
Dan Reinbold
Director, Information Management
Peace County Health

"Insightful and comprehensive."
Mark Brion
Information Architect
Sun Life Financial


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