jenine borowik, abs msis 2012. increasing cost & difficulty of acquiring data new competitors...

Riding the big data wave to streamline acquiring and managing data

Jenine Borowik, ABSMSIS 2012

The Challenge

Increasing cost & difficulty of

acquiring dataNew

competitors & changing

expectationsRapid changes

in the environment

Presenter Jenine Borowik, MSIS 2012 Conference

Competition for skilled

resources- low

unemployment

Reducing budget

ABS 2017 Transformation Program

• Survive Reduce the cost and time of doing business

• Thrive Grow the business through new statistical products and services

• Provide Deliver the first digital Census (2016) on time, budget, and quality

…………while delivering on Business As Usual.


What will we deliver?

• Enterprise architecture

• Re-engineered business processes (eg acquire and disseminate) and applications to support them

• Information Management (IM) standards and governance

• Core IM infrastructure (Metadata registry and repository, Statistical Workflow Management, Enterprise Warehouse, plus capability for handling/ processing large administrative/ transactional datasets)

• Plus Census 2016


As Is

Future

State

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Enterprise Architecture - Major Changes

Today

Tomorrow

Specify Needs Design Build Collect Process Analyse Disseminate Archive Evaluate

Generally one off solutions

Modular, plug and play

components

20% survey data, 80% admin and other data

90% data survey based

Tools are unique and very labour

intensive

New tools modular, reusable

Major focus of staff expertise

Limited by tools and time

Limited by available time

Major focus of staff expertise

Publications focus

Publications, data sets,

desktop tools

Information is a National resource

Data stores held by

individuals

Limited activity in this

area

A small but routine process

Future StateAs Is


Transformation The Strategic Triangle


Public Value

Operational Capacity and

Capability

Success

Authorising Environment

From: “Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government” Professor Mark Moore, Harvard Kennedy School

• Convenience for respondents• Tailored questionnaires / collection

instruments• More choice in when and how information is

provided• Existing data first, source new datasets

second, conduct surveys third

• Improved coherence• Greater re-use of concepts, questions,

methods and processes

• Improved efficiency• Reduced cost• Improved timeliness

• Statistical leadership• Help other producers of statistical

outputs• Improve information management

across Australia


Public Value

• Government and partners• Australian Government policies

and directions• Statistical Network• Industry

• Staff• Engagement• Change management• Communication planning

• Community• Survey participants• Clients and users• 2016 Census


Authorising environment

Authorising Environment

• Core infrastructure• GSBPM – Business process model

• SWM – Statistical Workflow Management

• GSIM – Information model

• MRR – Metadata registry and repository

• EDW – Enterprise Data Warehouse

• Organisational focus• ABS 2017 group• Strategic Finance and Investment

Committee

• People• Capability development


Operational Capacity and

Capability

BusinessesIndividualsHouseholds Governments

The changing environment

On lineOn site On the go

en masse (system/device to system)

Receive data

Transform & Load data

Digitise data

Design, Build & Test Collection Instruments,

Processes & Systems

Support Providers

Manage Provider Information

Run Collection

Manage Workforce & Workload

Despatch Instruments /

Requests for Info

On the phone

ABS

CHANNELS/MODES

PROVIDERS

On paper

• Survive• Choose the projects with the biggest potential for

savings - e-collection and admin data• Set targets for savings• Form group to determine best way• Sign off from all

• Thrive• Administrative data• Transaction data• Data from instruments• Data from the web

• Provide• Census 2016


ABS 2017 Acquire@ABS

• Speeding up change• Stop trying to do it all ourselves• International collaboration• Engaging with industry

• Achieving the savings • Improving the business case• Focus on hard dollar savings• Including full lifecycle costs• Choosing the projects with the

biggest gains

• Concentrating limited resource• Cutting off options • One program• Fewer bigger projects


ABS 2017 Strategies


Thank You

jenine borowik, abs msis 2012. increasing cost & difficulty of acquiring data new competitors...

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