DATA AUGMENTATION

To capture the most value from the wealth of Enterprise data, the organization’s data needs to be secure, clean, consistent, quality assured and readily available for the Enterprise eco-system. With the aim to empower organizations to maximize the value of data, we apply a value chain approach to the end-to-end data lifecycle, allowing for the application of analytics and generation of new insights across the Enterprises’ domain knowledge areas for optimum EVC. To ensure excellence along this information value chain, our GC D&A Target Operating Model (TOM) capability takes on a systemic TOM development approach, focusing on the optimization of the Data lifecycle within an organizational eco-system, with a single orientation of turning data into value. Leveraging our GC Business Transformation capability, the core capabilities of the Data Lifecycle are established, and the interoperability and sequence of effort required for optimization of functional processes are defined for fast, efficient and effective outputs. In addition, the ways of working between the Communities of Practice (COP) and other Information Management (IM) architectural bodies are established, to ensure dissemination of best practice, standards and frameworks, fit-for-purpose deployment and embedment of the D&A resources. Entrenching the principles of flexibility and adaptability to accommodate for organic growth, our D&A TOM design approach allows for cross-functional teams with diverse skillsets to work together in an agile environment, leveraging GC People Intelligence insights to drive functional performance. Making use of our GC Organizational Design capability, the people efficiency principles, requirements and measurements are defined and translated to the optimal D&A Organizational structures for optimum people performance. Understanding the significant impact of such a business transformation initiative, GC Strategic Change Management practices are proactively deployed to manage the people and cultural changes associated with implementing a new D&A TOM, placing extreme focus on People Experience across the change transformation journey. To ensure the D&A Community is skilled and prepared to operate in newly defined ways of working, GC D&A TOM leverages GC Learning and Leadership Development capability, to close the future skills gap and accelerate the reskilling and upskilling of talent. By linking talent to value through People Effectiveness and People Efficiency strategies, we aim to enhance the organization's ability to achieve new business goals, uncover new insights and create new data types that drive new business ideas and revenue streams. 

Translated from the D&A TOM and the core capabilities embedded along the Data Lifecyle, GC D&A Capability development focusses on defining the functional capability architecture required for information value chain optimization. Aligning to the Enterprise Strategy and the core value generating elements of the business that contribute to EVC, our GC D&A Capability development approach to defining the functional capability architecture entails a robust definition of capability standards and frameworks, value drivers, business expectations, functional interoperability, technology requirements, people skills-, knowledge- and competency proficiencies, as well as key performance metrics for each respective capability of the Data Lifecyle. Leveraging our GC Enterprise Engineering, and GC People Effectiveness practices, we cluster the capabilities aligned to the sequence of effort, data flow and inter-dependencies that will achieve the most significant compound effect to deliver value across the information value chain. With a key focus on continuous learning and improvement, and to ensure D&A Capability accelerates into new ways of working that, we leverage our GC People Effectiveness practice and GC Strategic Change management capability to develop learning journeys focussed on developing the skills and behaviour required for successful D&A TOM operationalization, as well as develop the D&A Business Partnership mindsets for enterprise-wide D&A augmentation.  

GC D&A functional skills accelerator is a bespoke learning intervention focussed specifically on the data specialists within the organization. Leveraging our GC People Effectiveness capability, we develop bespoke learning and leadership journeys to build D&A capability maturity along the employee journey, from induction, core and functional capability, towards organization wide elevation of the critical skills and behaviors needed to service the businesses as strategic business partners. In order to transition individuals within data roles towards future-fit data skilled individuals, the following integrated learning journeys are developed, each linked to the different levels of D&A maturity and career progression:  

• Data and Analytics set-up programme: Laying a robust foundation to set D&A professionals up for their career journey ahead. By translating the core systemic, structural and functional requirements for career success as a D&A specialist in the organization, the GC D&A set-up programme focusses on developing bespoke foundational understanding and application of the D&A Strategy, D&A TOM, integrated D&A capability landscape, D&A engagement and service model that supports the enterprise business model, as well as the core skills and behaviors required for successful career progression along the employee journey. 
• Data and Analytics business partnership programme:  Behavioral transformation programme for all D&A specialists, focusing on building the D&A behavioral competencies necessary to elevate D&A capabilities in the organization by creating deeply invested D&A business partners. Leveraging GC People Intelligence capability, GC D&A business partnership programme sets out to define the bespoke D&A behavioral index for impactful D&A strategic business partnership, and develop bespoke learning journeys for elevated D&A capability impact in the way D&A specialists engage, collaborate, and perform to create Enterprise value. 
• Data and Analytics Talent acceleration programme:  Future fitness programme for top talent D&A specialists, focusing on the D&A competencies needed to drive future business resilience and evolve data maturity in the organization. Leveraging GC Strategic Workforce Planning capability and the global economic intelligence and workforce insights to determine future core capabilities required for business resilience, GC D&A Talent acceleration programme focuses on the rapid acceleration of skills and behaviours required to enable a Data Driver Strategy allowing for future EVC.  
• Data and Analytics Leadership acceleration programme: D&A leadership programme focusing on the skills and behaviors required for elevated executive business partnership to lead with data accountability and drive data value realisation.   

GC Enterprise wide D&A literacy programme focusses on the broader employee workforce that are not data specialist, but leverages data in their every-day roles. Making use of our GC People Effectiveness capability, as well as GC Strategic Change Management capability, we develop bespoke learning and change adoption interventions focussing on elevating Enterprise-wide capability to use data for enhanced Enterprise Performance. With the aim to augment Enterprise data capability through elevated data literacy, GC Enterprise wide D&A literacy development programmes aim to create D&A talent visibility and pipeline for D&A execution in the broader organizational environment, as well as enable organizational leadership to lead with data insights when formulating strategy linked to EVC. In order to transition individuals towards D&A fitness, the following integrated learning journeys are developed linked to the different levels of D&A maturity and career aspirations:  

• D&A Awareness: GC D&A Awareness programmes are bespoke developed with the intent to establish common language and understanding of the basic data concepts and data governance in an inclusive and relatable manner. 
• D&A Literacy: GC D&A Literacy programme focusses on developing foundational data competencies to augment individual roles with basic data skills. 
• D&A Foundations: The GC D&A Foundations programme focusses on developing the foundational data skills and behaviours needed to establish Data Capabilities in the business. 
• D&A Fitness: The GC D&A Fitness programme focusses on building a D&A talent pipeline by developing specialized data skills and behaviours needed to sustain Data Capabilities in the business. 
• Leading with Data: The GC Leading with Data programme seeks to empower enterprise leadership with the technical know-how to leverage data for enhanced Enterprise Performance, focusing on developing the leadership behaviors necessary to lead with data accountability. 

Ensuring adequate protection and privacy of the organization’s information assets and systems, eliminating the threat of cyber and unplanned downtime. 

Proving stable managed global platform services that are managed and operated at scale to meet and predict business demand for accurate data delivery and seamless data acquisition. Ensuring compliance to global legislation and providing expert advice and guidance on ethical business practice when working with data.  

Building standardized, secure and sustainable data pipelines to inform strategic and business decisions, providing strategic advisory to connect business to internal and external data sources. 

Develop and maintain core data assets that can be used as standard components for analysis and insights, engineered through the enterprise data model. Enabling data-driven innovation through world leading data architecture, practices, standards and frameworks that provide a holistic view of the data assets integration within the data-ecosystem. 

Embedding data ownership and stewardship across the Enterprise business functions with the aim of building data driven cultures.

Rapid improvement and optimization of business process by providing accurate, relevant and complete data, reducing the cost associated with bad data and reducing risk associated with non-compliance and bad decision making. 

Elevating the integrity of data, through the provision of clean, consistent and quality assured data.

Enabling wholly new and innovative capabilities to support intelligence-based decision making. Enabling the organization to maximise business value by differentiating itself from its competitors and lead the market with innovative products and services. 

Empowering business with simplified data delivery for quick decision making.