Business Excellence through Information Excellence?

Mentoring to increase your effectiveness in information and knowledge management and information quality management. These consulting descriptions are illustrative rather than prescriptive. All consulting is geared to meet your specific objectives.

Information Resource and Knowledge Management

• Executive Briefings in Information and Knowledge Management: 
  INFORMATION IMPACT provides executive briefings on any topic in Information Management and Information Quality. 
• Strategic Information Visioning: 
  This planning provides an information infrastructure that will support all tiers of information requirements--operational, tactical, and strategic.  
• Management and Executive Coaching: 
  One on one or two on one coaching to key management personnel, guiding them through the learning of the new behaviors required to manage information and knowledge effectively.
  

TIQM Quality System

• Information Quality Improvement 
  Addresses the systemic, political and organizational factors as well as the statistical quality control factors of quality information.
• IQMM^® Assessment
  A comprehensive assessment of the maturity of your information quality program with a comprehensive report of what you can do to improve your program's effectiveness.
• Information Governance and Stewardship
  Information stewardship applies the principles of accountability for the information product.

Information Resource Management and Data Modeling

• Information Resource Management and Data Administration 
  This function directly supports the strategic business objectives through applying management principles to the data resource.
• Conceptual Data Modeling and Information Architecture 
  Essential to the development of stable and flexible databases that can be shared by knowledge workers and application, and minimize the costs of redundant data and applications.
• RApid Data Development Workshop Facilitation (RADD^TM) 
  The RADD^TM techniques employ the principles of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to incorporate information customer requirements into the design of data models. This approach provides flexible and stable data models necessary for sound physical database design in an accelerated time frame.

Data Warehousing

• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Planning and Data Modeling 
  The data warehouse must be engineered and architected as an enterprise-wide resource, whether stated with an enterprise-wide subject area or a single business line data mart.
• Data Warehouse Quality Process Implementation 
  The single biggest cause of data warehouse failure and sub-optimization in managed data quality, both in the data architecture and in data content.

Other

• Business Process Reengineering 
  Implement an effective approach to managing change in the corporate and I/S cultures.
• Value-Centric Application Development 
  The application development process in an information-managed environment must support the key business value chains.