From Strategy to Practice

1. From Strategy to Practice • Marton Vucsan, • Steven Vale, • Rune Gløersen

2. Humans are a species that achieves everything through cooperation in groups

3. Contents • Introduction • Structures and mechanisms • Architecture for cooperation • Opening up!

4. Introduction From special to normal

5. Introduction • We are cooperating but: • Travelling is seen as reward or to costly • Infrastructure not ready for bridging the gap • NSI’s are locked down (mentally) • Private infra is used

6. Introduction • We are cooperating and: • We increasingly share solutions • Slowly more interconnections • NSI’s are forced to look outward • Technology leaps forward

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

8. 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

9. Structures, Mechanisms • Layered control/guidance paradigm • Stepwise increase of abstraction level • Groups do what they know best Appropriate detail at all levels

10. Structures, Mechanisms • Layered control/guidance paradigm • Global Statistical system - global • Enterprise architecture - NSI • Business architecture - Stats • Information architecture - Info • Technical architecture - ICT Governance Abstraction

11. 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!

12. GLOBAL NSI STATS INFO ICT Architecture for cooperation LAYERS Global Statistical System Enterprise Architecture Business Architecture and Process Model Statistical Production Statistical Methodology and Standards Information Architecture and Model Technical / Systems Architecture

13. GLOBAL NSI STATS INFO ICT Architecture for cooperation GROUPS UN Statistical Commission Global Statistical System 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 Production Statistical Methodology and Standards Information Architecture and Model Statistical Network Statistical Data Editing MSIS Technical / Systems Architecture CORA SDMX Technical Working Group

14. GLOBAL NSI STATS INFO ICT Architecture for cooperation CONCEPTS Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics Global Statistical System Enterprise Architecture HLG-BAS (Vision? Defining the industry) Business Architecture and Process Model GSBPM DDI (Lifecycle) Statistical Production Statistical Methodology and Standards Information Architecture and Model GSIM DDI Metadata Specification XBRL Guidelines for Developing Multi-lingual Software Technical / Systems Architecture SDMX Technical Standards

15. Architecture for cooperation INDUSTRALISATION Global Statistical System Enterprise Architecture Business Architecture and Process Model GSBPM Statistical Production Statistical Methodology and Standards Information Architecture and Model Common Generic Industrial Statistics Methods GSIM Technology Technical / Systems Architecture

16. Architecture for cooperation ROLES Global Statistical System TopManagers Governance Enterprise Architecture Corporate support services Business Architects Business Architecture and Process Model Information architects Methodologists Statisticians Statistical Production Statistical Methodology and Standards Information Architecture and Model Abstraction IT specialists Technical / Systems Architecture

17. 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)

18. Opening Up! • With our development networks • With our methods • With our workprocesses

19. 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

20. Opening Up Means: • Matter of fact global collaboration • Look at the success of Open Source

21. Opening Up ¥ € $ Plug and Play Standards

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

23. Bottom Up? • The way of the specialists • Driven by local businesscase (team level!) • Tool choice: mostly what’s available • Problem definition? Perception within current mindframe • Not normally based on architectural concepts Collaborating and sharing by accident

24. 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

25. Governance Top Down! Get Smart! • Like a pendulum! Top management Projects Distance = # Projects Management governs Projects deliver

26. 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

27. 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