1. ESS vision and ways for cooperation
Workshop on strategic developments in business architecture in statistics
Geneva 30/10/2011
Walter Radermacher, Chief statistician of the EU
30-Oct-11

2. Outline ESS vision (2009) and Joint strategy (2010)
Contrasting ESS and HLG-BAS vision
Cooperation between two levels is possible (eg. SNA, SDMX) and necessary
Direction for cooperation and work at GSS level
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Walter Radermacher

3. Comparing ESS vision / HLG-BAS vision
Business cases are similar
Context are different
ESS is a system
Institutional context
Output harmonisation -> process integration and industrialisation
Ambitious work programme
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Walter Radermacher

4. ESS vision implementation strategy
The Joint Strategy (2010)
The legal framework
Collaboration instruments
Governance mechanism
Reorganisation in Eurostat, new methods of work
Strategic groups like the Sponsorship on Standardisation
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Walter Radermacher

5. Early results and priorities
Flagship projects (EGR, Census HUB, SDMX)
Bottom up component : ESSnets, sectoral WGs
Strategic plan in Business domains
A top down component (architecture approach) in development
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Walter Radermacher

6. International cooperation is necessary
Positive impact of international standards if appropriately coordinated
Avoid double work and standards incompatibilities
Alignment and reducing overlap of groups
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Walter Radermacher

7. Reengineering of Official Statistics
ESS
HLG-BAS
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Walter Radermacher

8. Management of Production Preparation of publication
“Factory” Statistics
Disseminate
Management
Development
Statistical methods
Technology
Programme
Marketing
User support
Publications
Data warehouses
Microdata access
Press office
Cooperation with private sector
Management of Production
Survey preparation
Survey
Validation
Preparation of publication
Analysis
Support
Resources
Social questions
Legal
Information
ICT
Organisation
Training
Methods
Strategy HR
Controlling
Communication
Production
Metadata
Registers
Data matching …
30-Oct-11
Walter Radermacher

9. Proposed directions for HLG-BAS
High level modelisation of the OS factory
Going beyond production processes
Layered approach
Promoting the lego (plug and play) approach of production statistics
30-Oct-11
Walter Radermacher

10. Cooperation principles
Partnership and sharing
Eurostat is ready to invest in supranational projects in line with its strategic priorities
Draw on existing mechanism for international cooperation (UN city groups, …)
Align groups and avoid intersections
30-Oct-11
Walter Radermacher

11. walter.radermacher@ec.europa.eu http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/
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