From Strategy to Practice

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From Strategy to Practice

• Marton Vucsan,
• Steven Vale,
• Rune Gløersen

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Humans are a species that achieves everything
through cooperation in groups
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Contents

• Introduction
• Structures and mechanisms
• Architecture for cooperation
• Opening up!

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Introduction

• From special to normal

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Introduction

• We are cooperating but
• Travelling is seen as reward or to costly
• Infrastructure not ready for bridging the gap
• NSIs are locked down (mentally)
• Private infra is used

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Introduction

• We are cooperating and
• We increasingly share solutions
• Slowly more interconnections
• NSIs are forced to look outward
• Technology leaps forward

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Delivering a SYSTEM

• Our product is integration!
• What we create is a global system
• Our governance should reflect that

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Structures, Mechanisms

• Work and Management must mirror
• all levels of management in contact
• NSI planning cycles should interconnect
• resources set aside and earmarked
• global balancing of burdens and profits

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Structures, Mechanisms

• Layered control/guidance paradigm
• Stepwise increase of abstraction level
• Groups do what they know best

Appropriate detail at all levels
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Structures, Mechanisms

• Layered control/guidance paradigm
• Global Statistical system - global
• Enterprise architecture - NSI
• Business architecture - Stats
• Information architecture - Info
• Technical architecture - ICT

• Governance

• Abstraction

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Structures, Mechanisms

• Are you specialist or manager?
• Specialist create the product, methods, system,
  architecture, interfaces or..
• Manager create the planning, budget, meetings,
  agreements, reports or...
• Know your role!

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Architecture for cooperation
LAYERS
Global Statistical System
Enterprise Architecture
Business Architecture and Process Model
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Statistical Production
Technical / Systems Architecture
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Architecture for cooperation
GROUPS
Global Statistical System
UN Statistical Commission
CES and equivalents for other regions /
organisations
Human Resources Management and Training
Enterprise Architecture
HLG-BAS
Business Architecture and Process Model
ESS Sponsorship on Standardisation
METIS
SAB
SDMX Statistical Working Group
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Statistical Production
Statistical Network
MSIS
Statistical Data Editing
Technical / Systems Architecture
SDMX Technical Working Group
CORA
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Architecture for cooperation
CONCEPTS
Global Statistical System
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
Enterprise Architecture
HLG-BAS (Vision? Defining the industry)
Business Architecture and Process Model
GSBPM
DDI (Lifecycle)
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Statistical Production
GSIM
DDI Metadata Specification
XBRL
Guidelines for Developing Multi-lingual Software
Technical / Systems Architecture
SDMX Technical Standards
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Architecture for cooperation
INDUSTRALISATION
Global Statistical System
Enterprise Architecture
Business Architecture and Process Model
GSBPM
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Statistical Production
Common Generic Industrial Statistics
Methods
GSIM
Technology
Technical / Systems Architecture
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Architecture for cooperation
ROLES
Global Statistical System
Top Managers

• Governance

Enterprise Architecture
Corporate support services
Business Architects
Business Architecture and Process Model
Information architects
Methodologists
Statisticians
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Statistical Production

• Abstraction

IT specialists
Technical / Systems Architecture
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The road ahead
Know your role!

• Taking charge, manage!
• Doing content!
• Architecture, modelling, shared software
• Shared methods and specifications and so on
• Creating harmonised procedures for collaboration
• Align our operational procedures
• Opening up our institutes!
• Create an infrastructure for sharing
• Deliver through contact (video or presence)

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Opening Up!

• With our development networks
• With our methods
• With our workprocesses

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Opening Up Means

• Using combined budgets
• Seeing travel as means to achieve
• Locating teams somewere for a few (5) weeks
• Your boss is collaborating, just like you
• Having instant chat infrastructure, with video

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Opening Up Means

• Matter of fact global collaboration
• Look at the success of Open Source

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Opening Up
Plug and Play Standards
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Just a thought...

• A statistical cloud (our own?, shared, secure)
• For shared development
• For ad hoc Big Data research
• For joint dissemenation

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In The Meantime!
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Bottom Up?

• The way of the specialists
• Driven by local businesscase (team level!)
• Tool choice mostly whats available
• Problem definition? Perception within current
  mindframe
• Not normally based on architectural concepts

Collaborating and sharing by accident
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Top Down!

• Driven by the Business management (all levels)
• Fuelled by business goals
• Guided by architecture
• Global decisions on tools
• Based on methodological concepts
• Enabling international cooperation

Collaborating and sharing by design
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Top Down! Get Smart!

• Like a pendulum!

Top management
Projects
Distance Projects
Management governs Projects deliver
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Getting Smart!

• Highest level agrees on task to be executed,
  countries to be involved(create plug and play
  architecture for statistics??)
• Then we do top down task decomposition
• International planning session with management
  level, address resource problem, define projects
  on this level, propose project managers
• Assign lower management level the lower tasks
  (number increases)
• repeat

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Getting Smart!

• Every project should have a projectmanager
• The projectmanager reports to the managers that
  own the change, give the resources and manage the
  chain
• The owning managers make sure the project is
  internally known, aligned and accounted for
• Participating countries send these managers to
  international planning sessions
• Report to higher level of management, repeat

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Discussion

• What mechanism ensures good management of the
  international projects
• How is a layered structure to be realised? by
  recursion?
• We do not need tons of administrative procedures
• We do need agile and tight control