High Level Group for Strategic Developments in Business Architecture in Statistics

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High Level Groupfor Strategic Developments
inBusiness Architecture in Statistics

• Workshop outcomes (as seen from the HLG-BAS group)

Gosse van der Veen, Statistics Netherlands
2011 Geneva
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General

• All accept the HLG-BAS vision, strategies and
  issues presented
• The dilemma of choice is accepted and priorities
  have to be determined.
• Trust and privacy we need research in this area
  to remain in contact with the real world

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On Governance

• Central hierarchy for industry-wide decisions?
• Or organic cooperation in networks?
• The common good (GSBPM,GSIM, collaboration
  approaches) to be done centrally?
• Formal governance versus agility / flexibility

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Product

• Reduce turnaround with more agile production
  processes
• We need another, totally different production
  line for new (experimental) statistics
• New culture, exploit cross-cutting production
• User segmentation and profiling to to determine
  our position

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Process and Industrialisation

• Common architectures at all layers for process
  interoperability to be created using work already
  done.
• The GSIM has to be defined, understood and
  accepted urgently
• Plug and play
• Need for good IT, ESSnets underway.
• Inventory of best practices

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Organisation and collaboration

• Chief statisticians to agree on framework
• At global level and European level
• Need for technical and procedural means for
  collaboration

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Implementation

• We need start a project on high level
  architecture
• Demonstrate and validate the role and value of
  GSIM in a vertical project
• Start a project for concrete collaboration
  environment producing a framework document.

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Standards What

• Strategic view about standardisation and its
  challenges
• Common framework for implementation of
  standardisation
• Implementation strategy, road map
• Business cases

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Standards How

• Decide on time frame and budget
• Involvement of key stakeholders
• Periodical discussion of milestones
• Leads anchor persons for standards
• Project management agreed on
• Sine qua non project plan

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Miscellaneous

• Remember respondents burden reduction
• Some data collections are larger than nations
• Should we form a global statistical system?

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Deliverables

• Strategy document with enhancements as discussed
  at this workshop
• Framework document from HLG-BAS for chief
  statisticians of all NSIs to agree on as a first
  step.
• Define first changes needed for better
  collaboration
• Define organisational changes needed

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Main Themes

• Develop strategy and actions
• Prioritize goals according to HLG-BAS vision
• Organise work of groups according to the
  priorities from vision improve interaction
• Develop GSBPM or similar for other layers
• Develop GSIM quickly
• Models for governance (business cases?)
• Classic
• Market
• Frontrunners with cost recovery
• Communication to participants and others