1. From Strategy to Practice
In this presentation we will talk about putting the strategy to work.
From Strategy to Practice
Marton Vucsan,
Steven Vale,
Rune Gløersen

2. Humans are a species that achieves everything through cooperation in groups
Think about this for a moment. A single human being cannot be thought of as formidable,
He or she is so because of the context he or she is operating in. This contect is largely brought about by others.
Even better, most big efforts and results are created by groups of humans cooperating.

3. Contents Introduction Structures and mechanisms
Architecture for cooperation
Opening up!

4. Introduction
From special to normal

5. Introduction We are cooperating but:
Travelling is seen as reward or to costly
Infrastructure not ready for bridging the gap
NSI’s are locked down (mentally)
Private infra is used

6. Introduction We are cooperating and: We increasingly share solutions
Slowly more interconnections
NSI’s are forced to look outward
Technology leaps forward

7. Delivering a SYSTEM Our product is integration!
What we create is a global system
Our governance should reflect that

8. Structures, Mechanisms
Work and Management must mirror
all levels of management in contact
NSI planning cycles should interconnect
resources set aside and earmarked
global balancing of burdens and profits

9. Structures, Mechanisms
Layered control/guidance paradigm
Stepwise increase of abstraction level
Groups do what they know best
Appropriate detail at all levels

10. Structures, Mechanisms
Layered control/guidance paradigm
Global Statistical system - global
Enterprise architecture - NSI
Business architecture - Stats
Information architecture - Info
Technical architecture - ICT
Governance
Abstraction

11. Structures, Mechanisms
Are you specialist or manager?
Specialist: create the product, methods, system, architecture, interfaces or..
Manager: create the planning, budget, meetings, agreements, reports or...
Know your role!

12. Architecture for cooperation
LAYERS
Global Statistical System
GLOBAL
NSI
STATS
INFO
ICT
Enterprise Architecture
Business Architecture and Process Model
Statistical Production
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Technical / Systems Architecture

13. Architecture for cooperation
GROUPS
UN Statistical Commission
Global Statistical System
GLOBAL
NSI
STATS
INFO
ICT
CES and equivalents for other regions / organisations
Human Resources Management and Training
Enterprise Architecture
HLG-BAS
Business Architecture and Process Model
ESS Sponsorship on Standardisation
METIS
SAB
SDMX Statistical Working Group
Statistical Production
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Statistical Network
Statistical Data Editing
MSIS
Technical / Systems Architecture
CORA
SDMX Technical Working Group

14. Architecture for cooperation
CONCEPTS
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
Global Statistical System
GLOBAL
NSI
STATS
INFO
ICT
Enterprise Architecture
HLG-BAS (Vision? Defining the industry)
Business Architecture and Process Model
GSBPM
DDI (Lifecycle)
Statistical Production
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
GSIM
DDI Metadata Specification
XBRL
Guidelines for Developing Multi- lingual Software
Technical / Systems Architecture
SDMX Technical Standards

15. Architecture for cooperation
INDUSTRALISATION
Global Statistical System
Enterprise Architecture
Business Architecture and Process Model
GSBPM
Statistical Production
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Common Generic
Industrial Statistics
Methods
GSIM
Technology
Technical / Systems Architecture

16. Architecture for cooperation
ROLES
Global Statistical System
Top Managers
Governance
Enterprise Architecture
Business
Architects
Corporate support services
Business Architecture and Process Model
Information
architects
Statisticians
Methodologists
Statistical Production
Statistical Methodology and Standards
Information Architecture and Model
Abstraction
IT specialists
Technical / Systems Architecture

17. The road ahead Know your role! Taking charge, manage! Doing content!
Architecture, modelling, shared software
Shared methods and specifications and so on
Creating harmonised procedures for collaboration
Align our operational procedures
Opening up our institutes!
Create an infrastructure for sharing
Deliver through contact (video or presence)

18. Opening Up! With our development networks With our methods
With our workprocesses

19. Opening Up Means: Using combined budgets
Seeing travel as means to achieve
Locating teams somewere for a few (5) weeks
Your boss is collaborating, just like you
Having instant chat infrastructure, with video

20. Opening Up Means: Matter of fact global collaboration
Look at the success of Open Source

21. Opening Up
¥ € $ Plug and Play Standards

22. Just a thought... A statistical cloud (our own?, shared, secure)
For shared development
For ad hoc Big Data research
For joint dissemenation

23. In The Meantime!

24. Bottom Up? Collaborating and sharing by accident
The way of the specialists
Driven by local businesscase (team level!)
Tool choice: mostly what’s available
Problem definition? Perception within current mindframe
Not normally based on architectural concepts
Collaborating and sharing by accident

25. Top Down! Collaborating and sharing by design
Driven by the Business management (all levels)
Fuelled by business goals
Guided by architecture
Global decisions on tools
Based on methodological concepts
Enabling international cooperation
Collaborating and sharing by design

26. Top Down! Get Smart! Like a pendulum! Top management Governance
Projects
Distance = # Projects
Management governs
Projects deliver

27. Getting Smart!
Highest level agrees on task to be executed, countries to be involved (create plug and play architecture for statistics??)
Then we do top down task decomposition
International planning session with management level, address resource problem, define projects on this level, propose project managers
Assign lower management level the lower tasks (number increases)
repeat

28. Getting Smart! Every project should have a projectmanager
The projectmanager reports to the managers that own the change, give the resources and manage the chain
The owning managers make sure the project is internally known, aligned and accounted for
Participating countries send these managers to international planning sessions
Report to higher level of management, repeat

29. Discussion:
What mechanism ensures good management of the international projects
How is a layered structure to be realised? by recursion?
We do not need tons of administrative procedures
We do need agile and tight control