Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

1.5 BREAKING FROM TRADITION WITH IMPROVED RESULTS

To break from tradition, executives must do some things differently in their pursuit of enterprise performance optimization. Ever present is possession of high value for data.

CEO Smart Data Strategy Work Breakdown Structure

What specifically are executives to do?

[A0] Optimize Enterprise Performance.

At what point in the order of business do CEOs or department secretaries address data strategy and attention to enterprise data? Observing the incoming Obama administration, we witnessed (1) attention to data details and (2) attention to staffing executive positions with those who understand processes and rules and can interpret data.

Propelled by events, incoming executives must grasp an operational environment that is fraught with problems and catastrophes. They must address strategy, tactics, and operational management issues in parallel, doing so with constrained bandwidth and capacity for change and improvement.

The national economy is collapsing. The nation is at war on two or more fronts. U.S. auto manufacturers are unprofitable and sales trend downward as products are uncompetitive. These issues are nontrivial, so how should executives factor attention to data strategy?

The CEO or president provides a brand of management and a set of guiding values and principles that are a part of what we call the leadership and integration architecture, which IT professionals might call the control architecture.

The leadership and integration ...