Community of Interest

Community of Interest Data Interoperability Workshop

The Data Interoperability Workshop can be configured to serve a specific Community Of Interest. Such communities would include all functional staff and supporting IT staff who are the subject matter experts trying to consolidate for example, a collection of inventory and distribution systems, human resource systems, sales and marketing systems, and the like..

The community of interest data interoperability workshop is a structured combination of consulting, training, and long-term follow-up. When your organization is embarking on a process of consolidating groups of systems, a necessary, and very critical first step is to create a shared data architecture that all the consolidated systems use. Creating such a shared data architecture is the goal of the Data Interoperability Workshop.

Whitemarsh recommends that the workshop is surrounded with both pre and post activities that greatly increase the probability that a consolidation effort will succeed. These additional activities are items 1, 2, 4, and 5 in the following table. A price breakdown of the DIW-COI Workshop is also available.

Community of Interest Data Interoperability Workshop
Item	Description	Duration
1.	Data Interoperability Lectures for Managers	2 Days
2.	Pre Workshop consulting preparing Workshop Materials *	3 Days
3.	Data Interoperability Workshop	5 Days
4.	Data Interoperability Followup Consulting for Road Ahead *	2 Days
5.	Follow-up Phone & Email consulting (24 staff hours) *	3 Days
6.	Business Unit membership to Whitemarsh Knowledge Ware Site	1 Year

*The activities for items 2, 4, and 5 above are as follows:

Item	Description	Activities
2.	Pre Workshop consulting preparing Workshop Materials (Three Days)	Identify Community of Interest Identify and gather materials related to Missions, organization, functions. Identify and gather materials related to Information Needs Identify and gather materials related to Database Schemas Identify and gather materials related to business information systems Identify and gather materials related to business events and calendars Identify Metabase Server and Install Metabase Server system Identify Workshop client machines and install Metabase Client System Prepare classroom Identify all team members and obtain resumes Create all classroom team assignments
4.	Data Interoperability Followup Consulting for Road Ahead (Two Days)	Identify specific data interoperability projects for each team Identify and configure typical data interoperability project work plan Identify and configure Data Standardization work plan Establish milestones for all team deliverables Create overall data Interoperability work plan for all projects. Establish method of deliverable review by Whitemarsh consultants for follow-up email and telephone consulting
5.	Follow-up Phone & Email consulting (24 staff hours)	Receive and log request for assistance. Determine the problem to be addressed Determine and request deliverables that deal with the problem. Create proposed solution Present solution and receive feedback Complete follow-up consultation

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