| Avoid costly misunderstandings |
Taxonomy development:
- Development of domain-specific glossaries
- Identification of commonalities and variabilities
- Removal of barriers to cross-disciplinary collaboration
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| Prevent growth of legacy risks |
Legacy replacement risk management:
- Collaboration with legacy technology experts to preserve and recover critical tacit knowledge
- Incremental validation and deployment of new solutions
- Confirmation that legacy is fully decommissioned, and is not operated in parallel indefinitely
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| Eliminate duplication |
Rationalisation of system portfolio:
- Systematic analysis of commonalities and variabilities across internal systems
- Identification of risks and duplication of functionality
- Development of a system integration road map
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| Maximise the level of automation in operations |
System integration strategy:
- Identification of relevant domain experts
- Definition of key implementation milestones
- Development of a risk management plan
- Identification of appropriate technology for system integration
- Structuring the system integration team
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| Detect mistakes at the earliest possible point in time |
Data quality assurance:
- Analysis of data quality and metadata quality
- Review of data capture and information management practices
- Root cause analysis of incomplete or incorrect data sets
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