1. Eurostat Task Force on impact analysis of ESS.VIP project11
Eurostat Task Force on impact analysis of ESS.VIP project
Istat experience in study and evaluation of innovative projects
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Department for Integration, Quality, Research and Production Networks Development (DIQR)
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2. Summary Istat planning process Istat Modernisation Program: Stat2015
Key Drivers and Framework
Decision –making and Evaluation of Projects
Risk mitigation - the Monitoring System
Istat contribution to the ESS Standardisation (Essnet Project)
Example of SWOT analysis
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3. Focus on users /Customer satisfaction
Istat planning process (I)
Mission
Focus on users /Customer satisfaction
Quality and transparency of production processes
Return of statistical information to members of society
Cut the statistical burden on respondents
Development of new tailored products
Measurement of new phenomena
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4. Long-term strategic objectives
Istat planning process (II)
Context
Analysis of External environment
Scaled-up production and higher quality, in response to increasing demand
Timeliness, also for phenomena that evolved slowly in the past
Efficiency gains leveraging technological innovation
Requirements of Public Sector
Increased competition from Private Sector
Analysis of Internal context
Cost savings in a context of budget constraints
Internal stakeholders
Long-term strategic objectives
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5. Istat planning process (III)
Risk analysis for each operational project (Integrated Risk Management System)
No additional quantitative analyses
Resources are predefined and allocated to individual operating projects
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6. Istat planning process (IV)
Period : Human Resources allocated to Long Term strategic objectives
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7. Istat Modernisation Program: Stat2015
Launched in 2010, aims at revamping the business chain by 2015 , through coordinated multiannual projects
Provides an overall framework for methodological, technological and organisational innovations
Consistent with European and international best practices (Eurostat VISION)
Leads Istat from a stovepipe model towards an integrated production system based on common infrastructures and services
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8. Stat2015: Key Drivers
Standardisation and industrialisation of the statistical business chain
Implementation of re-usable infrastructure to support the National Statistical System
Adoption of a metadata-driven system to help extract “signal out of noise”
Development of client-oriented tools to enhance value creation
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9. Stat2015: Framework
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10. Stat2015: Framework - How Define Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on plug-and-play technology to ensure interoperability between different systems
Business Architecture  
Develop shared standard IT tools and common methodologies
Support data sharing and Open data
Use of administrative data and explore digital/big data
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11. Stat2015: Decision-making
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12. 10 Key-Projects selected for monitoring on a quarterly basis
Stat2015: Evaluation of Projects
Contribution to the strategic objective
Spillover on other Projects
Resources (staff – IT assistance)
Risk analysis
10 Key-Projects selected for monitoring on a quarterly basis
Gantt Charts
Summary Report to Executive Committee including warning indicators
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13. Development of the Monitoring System
Stat2015: Risk mitigation (I)
Development of the Monitoring System
Selected only Innovative projects focused on
Building common infrastructures
Development of services and tools generalized or generalizable and re-usable
56 Master Projects of which 10 monitored with Gantt Chart
48 Support Projects
producing parts of infrastructure included in the result of a Master
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14. Stat2015: Risk mitigation (II)
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15. Stat2015: Risk mitigation (III)
Classification - from GSBPM (the common reference point)…
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16. …to Stat2015 Stylised Production Process
Phases of Istat production process
Classification
Metadata
Referential metadata
Structural metadata
Strategic plan metadata
Design/Build
Determine needs for information
Check data availability
Design production system and rules
Data collection
Survey data (Total/Sample)
Data from Administrative Archives
Big Data
Process/Analyse
Integration, editing and imputation
Process and estimation
Analysis
Dissemination
Validated microdata
Corporate Data Warehouse
Visualisation and dissemination tools
Procedures/Methods
Standardisation
Quality
Support to processes
Infrastructures
Common Reference Environment
Archives
Supporting actions
Coordination
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17. Stat2015: Risk mitigation (IV)
Example of classification - Dissemination and Procedures/Methods
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18. Stat2015: Risk mitigation (V)
Results of the mapping
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19. Essnet Project on Standardisation
Launched on 14/09/2012 for a duration of 48 months (FPA)
Participants
HCSO Hungary – Coordinator
Insee France
Istat Italy
CBS Latvia
STATISTICS Lithuania
CBS Netherlands
ONS United Kingdom
First SGA started on 18 December 2012 and lasts for 15 months
Focused on practical implementation of the work of the Sponsorship on Standardisation to further promote interchange and sharing of standards in the ESS
WP2 Lead by Istat - Deliverable 1, Month 4 - SWOT tool for analysis of standards
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20. Essnet Project on Standardisation SWOT Analyses
Qualitative Analysis carried out in standardised way
Assess Merits/Costs of the investments necessary to reach different standardisation levels (“to be state”) by considering a number of predefined aspects
Four Scenarios
Six Aspects for each category of the SWOT Matrix
Two Scores
How relevant is it?
What is the effect of a specific Standardisation effort/Scenario?
Scores should be collected from all NIS
A tool will be presented at the end of May (Feedback Workshop)
A pilot analysis will be made in the Essnet Project
Results will be produced by the end of October
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21. Essnet Project on Standardisation Example of SWOT scores
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22. Essnet Project on Standardisation Example of Fingerprints
The tool will be presented at the end of May (Feedback Workshop)
A pilot
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23. Thank you!
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24. References http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/essnet-standardisation
Barteld Braaksma, Cecilia Colasanti , Piero Demetrio Falorsi, Wim Kloek, Miguelangel Martinez Vidal, Jean-Marc Museux, Katalin Szep, Standardisation in the European Statistical System, NTTS Conference 2013
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