Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

5.3 ORGANIZATION

• Management Continuity. Policy as discussed above should reinforce the value of ensuring continuity of smart data strategy from administration to administration.
• Government Cycles and Seasons. Smart data use spans government cycles for planning, budgeting, funding, and authorization.
• Commercial Cycles and Seasons. Smart data use spans commercial cycles for planning, budgeting, funding, and authorization. Note that commercial enterprise that conducts business with government has a symbiotic relationship with customers whereby commercial planning may precede government planning, though the funding and authorization follow government.
• Industry Associations, Standards Bodies, and Professional Organizations. Many industry associations, standards bodies, and professional organizations are active participants in what we are calling smart data initiatives. Enterprise executives must observe that some of these external bodies have earned fees for brittle standards maintenance as a primary source of revenue. Therefore open and interoperable model-driven data exchange poses a threat to some of these, and you may experience resistance for that reason. They may have a conflict of interest.