Information inventories and data maps are critical to governance success – and quite challenging to accomplish. (See here, here, and here for more). For many, the challenges are so great that their projects either never get off the ground or return less-than-conclusive results.
Most commonly, this happens because (a) no one in control wants to commit the resources or time needed to do a properly-thorough job, or (b) those resources are too limited to consider allocating to the effort.
This doesn’t mean they don’t want to do the work – they know they must address their governance issues, and that the job starts here. But it’s often too big a lift for them to take on right now.
So I started to ask around:
Would you do it if it wasn’t so involved?
The answer has been a resounding YES.
Lightweight, Definitive, and Quick
In response, Holly Group has rethought one of our core services specifically to lighten your inventory/data map load. By combining a lightweight bit of powerful technology with our decades of experience, we now can speed and improve your ability to complete these vital tasks:
- Collect and synthesize everything you need to know about your information, from the basics of data types, locations, and ownership to such governance-critical factors as retention requirements, regulatory constraints, and privacy and security controls,
- Normalize and cluster this intelligence, applying mathematical, graphical, and textual processing to deterministically identify what’s what, and
- Analyze the results, recommend action plans, and execute your program in a disciplined, measurable, and repeatable way.
What you get is a non-invasive, definitive, and quick (estimated time – and budget – savings of around 40%) way to make real progress without having to wait for the “right time” or the improbable appearance of extra resources. In short, we enable you to get right to the governance without compromising the pre-work you have to do.
Sound Good? Let’s Talk!
If this sounds good to you, then let’s talk about how you can take advantage of our technology-assisted solution to the inventory/data map problem, and do the work faster, smarter, and with a lot less friction than you expect.
You know you’ll have to tend to your governance at some point, and here’s a non-burdensome way to get started and make clear-eyed decisions about the actions you’ll take next.
So what do you say? Let’s do it!
Ping me today to learn more!
Steve Weissman
steve@hollygroup.com
617-383-4655