Data-Centric Leadership for Government in the Post Big Data Era Training Workshop


This event qualifies for .7 CEUs


Overview:  

We have all seen the results of the big data hype. Big data projects fail at the same alarming rate (2/3rds consistently fail to meet functionality, date or cost plans) that characterize IT investments in general. The failure of big data can be attributed to three specific factors:

 

1) Without an agreed upon definition of big data all results (measurements, claims of success, quantifications) were correctly viewed skeptically and with suspicion!

2) The vast majority of these initiatives were implemented as projects with our corresponding programmatic sponsorship, and

3) These projects were implemented as technology-first initiatives.

 

A similar set of disappointments surrounds the similarly, ill-defined data science career field. The (now infamous) 2011 McKinsey Global Institute report predicted the need for “1.5 million more data savvy managers needed to take full advantage of big data in the United States.” This report was updated in 2017 with new predictions including: “We project that by 2020 the number of positions for data and analytics talent in the United States will increase to 2,720,000.” While thousands have graduated with various data degree titles the fact remains that demand is still rapidly outstripping the supply. Partially as a result of the imprecision surrounding these new data terms, new data graduates suffer from three specific complaints:

 

1) Data science initiatives has not been productive enough. Big data project failure rates aside, all data scientists will describe their jobs as frustrating because they spend 80% of their time munging their data so that they can spend the remaining 20% of their time analyzing it.

2) Current curricula do not instill enough interest/skills in these graduates 'learning the business.' As a result, these professionals tend to be more allied with their methods than they are to their organization and its mission.

3) Their skillsets are too generalized and initiatives typically require a three-year learning curve before selection of various approaches are considered fruitful and productive.

 

It is clearly time to try something different. This workshop presents the tenants of a data-centric approach to organizational problem solving as necessary but insufficient prerequisites to advantageous data leveraging. These include:

 

1. Preparing for dramatic change and accurately describing the work that must be done,

2. Understanding the need for and recruiting qualified, knowledgeable enterprise data talent, and

3. Eliminating the Seven Deadly Data Sins.

 

Accomplishing these will show you how to recognize opportunities, 'size up' required investments, and properly supervise efforts to properly leverage your data.

(This is workshop designed to inform Government Executives, Managers and Staff.)

What You Will Learn:  

  • Collaborate effectively about data among data, IT and business professionals.
  • Address the fundamental challenges that come from implementing data-centric practices in your organization.
  • Understand the shared challenges among Federal Government data leaders.
  • Create effective success factors for managing your data initiatives.
  • Develop required organizational skillsets for implementing your data initiatives.
  • Communicate effectively what data success looks like from various organizational points of view in order to achieve a unified perspective.
  • Eliminate the seven deadly data sins.
  • Prepare your organization to meaningfully understand the state of our collective profession and prepare for achievable success.

Why You Should Attend:

  • This Workshop provides latest thinking around data that requires a different  (updated) perspective  that has been offered in the past.
  • Data-centric organizational practices can be more usefully defined in objective terms permitting easier implementation.
  • Key to data success is to first refine, then improve/share.
  • Learn to express data goals timeframes is ways that get folks thinking in terms of decades but in ways that can show periodic deliverables.
  • Very little of this material is incorporated into formal education programs.

Who Should Attend:  

  • Government officials embarking on either IT or business improvement related initiatives – data, after all, is at the heart of all of these.
  • Industry and Consultants  supporting  government clients.

Collaborate effectively about data among data, IT and business professionals.Address the fundamental challenges that come from implementing data-centric practices in your organization.Understand the shared challenges among Federal Government data leaders.Create effective success factors for managing your data initiatives.Develop required organizational skillsets for implementing your data initiatives.Communicate effectively what data success looks like from various organizational points of view in order to achieve a unified perspective.Eliminate the seven deadly data sins.Prepare your organization to meaningfully understand the state of our collective profession and prepare for achievable success.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Government Keynote Speakers

Dan Morgan

CDO, CIO

Department of Transportation (DOT)

 

John Minkoff

CDO, Enforcement Division

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

 

Guest Speakers

Kevin Garrison

Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses

(Formerly, Principal Director and Director of Analytics

Deputy CIO for Business Process and Systems Review

Department of Defense)

 

Linda Powell

CDO

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Awaiting Agency Approval

 

Peter Aiken,PHD

Founding Director, Data Blueprint

Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Todd Harbour

Senior Consultant

Data Blueprint

Formerly CDO, New York State

 

Elliot Chikofsky

CDO

PathBridge

Relevant Government Agencies

Intelligence Agencies, DOD & Military, Office of the President (includes OMB), Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Justice, Dept of Labor, Dept of State, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Treasury, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, GSA, USPS, SSA, NASA, Other Federal Agencies, Legislative Agencies (GAO, GPO, LOC, etc.), Judicial Branch Agencies, FEMA, Office of Personnel Management, National Institutes of Health, FAA, USAID, National Guard Association, EEOC, Federal Government, FDA


This event has no exhibitor/sponsor opportunities


When
Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:30am - 5:00pm


Cost

Government:  $795.00
Industry:  $895.00


Where
Willard InterContinental Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
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Website
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Organizer
Potomac Forum, Ltd


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