Jun23 ADV

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Management Maturity Look Like in
2023 Presented by: William McKnight
“#1 Global Influencer in Big Data” Thinkers 360
President, McKnight Consulting Group Inc 5000
linkedin.com/in/wmcknight
www.mcknightcg.com
(214) 514-1444
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• Information volume is exploding
• Data is the lifeblood of artificial intelligence
We Are in the •
•
Business is real-time, all the time
Information usage differentiates the competition
Business of • Information quality impacts all stakeholders
• Information is reused over and over
Information • Even seldom-used data is essential to be under management
• Third-party information is essential to use
• Information is a key business asset
Data…..
§ Last 30 intimate enterprise
projects
• Mostly clients
• Power Hour to Full
Implementation
The
• Confidential
§ 50 Questions
• Probing Answers
Approach • 40 on Data Topics
• 10 on Business Success
• For publicly traded companies, we
used public information as well
§ Progression in data topics ~=
data maturity
Results
Beyond the Mountain lies
more mountains
“Beyond the Mountain is another mountain.”
Maturity Categories:
Modeling
Information Management
Professional Success Metrics
Customer
Satisfaction
Business ROI
Data Maturity
Data Maturity Scorecard
Score Next Steps
Strategy
Architecture
Technology
Organization
Total
Average
Maturity Level 1
“The Data Warehouse is a Struggle and that’s
the way it is and will always be”
“Artificial Intelligence is for Others”
Infrastructure Overwhelmed
“One Vendor” Mentality
Cloud Costs Out of Control Outdated Tools

High Data Skills Turnover
Organizational Silos Resistance to Change

Multiple Overlapping Data Stores
Splice Machine | Proprietary & Confidential
Achieve Business Goals While
Increasing Data Maturity
Maturity Level 2
Data Strategy Technology

• Emerging Data • Master Data Sharing
Standards • Third Party Data Utilized
• Data Decentralization • ML Chatter
• Executive Awareness • Data Integration=ETL, ELT
of Data • Dashboards
• Partial Self-Service BI
• Cloud First Direction
Architecture
Organization
• Central Data
Warehouse(s)* • Data Governance
• Emerging Platform • Agile Methodology
Heterogeneity • Data Specialists
• Data Lake** In
Development
*RDBMS **Cloud Storage

Focus on the Data Architecture
as well as Data Access
Maturity Level 3
Technology
Data Strategy
• Data Warehouse in Cloud
• Data Layer • Graph Database For
Acknowledged Relationship Data
• Reactive AI for • MDM of a Major Subject Area
Automation • Use of Data Marketplace
• Self-Service is • Use of Data Catalog
Dominant Model • Integration=Streaming
• Integration=Reusable
Architecture Organization
• Multi-Year Architecture • Data Governance By Subject
Direction/Plans Area Across Most Major Subject
• Data Lake in Production Areas
• Data Virtualization • Organizational Change
• Measured DQ Levels Management added to data
• Managing Many Data Types projects
• Some Data Lineage • Chief Data Officer
• Data Scientists
• Strong Devops
Follow the data
profile to the right
platform
Maturity Level 4

• Data As Asset In • MDM >1 Major Subject Area
Financial Statements • Data Catalog Populated
/ Executives • Data Observability
• Predictive Analytics • Search is Augmented and
• AI Data Parsing Interactive
• AI Curated Insights • Live Analytics
• API Management
• Kubernetes • Comprehensive Data
• Identity Governance
Management • Chief Information
• Rest APIs Architect/Equivalent
• Data Lakehouse • Strong MLops
• Full Data Lineage
“To do information
management right does
not require more
expense or time - it
takes know-how and
concentration..”
Maturity Level 5

• “Complete” Enterprise MDM
• Hyper-personalization
• Databases & Processing At Edge In
• Prescriptive Analytics
IOT
• Producing Information
• Embedded Database In Applications
Products
• Policy Management
• Limited Memory AI
Architecture
Organization
• Data Fully Discoverable
• Self-describing Data • Pervasive Data Governance
• Microservices and • Finops/Multi-Hybrid-Cloud
Containerized Analytical
Architecture
• Multi-model usage
Maturity Level 1-5 in 2024
We are at the start of General AI
Beyond 2024
Quantum Automated Data

Computing Discovery
Data is on the The need for

balance sheet Explainable AI
will go away
Edge The Majority of
Computing Data Jobs Will
and Edge AI Be Automated
The need to
store data will Given the rise of generative AI, those
be reduced companies with strong monetizable data and
a dedicated use case will be winners
Enterprise Formation
Hundreds of Nearly every

companies will industry and
be built around nearly every
an API for vertical is
something like being
ChatGPT transformed
today
Companies are
Startups will not using these
be able to create techniques in
the AI software and
themselves, but statistical models to
make predictions
they can use the and drive
APIs businesses forward
in a way that they're
not able to with only
humans
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§ There’s more § Have an open mind;
Maturity in moving There are different
imperfectly than in paths
merely perfectly § No plateaus are
defining the comfortable for long
shortcomings
§ That resistance is not
§ Build credibility about Maturity Level
§ Don’t be afraid to fail 5, it’s the journey
Unlock Potential
What Does Information

Management Maturity Look Like in
2023 Presented by: William McKnight
“#1 Global Influencer in Big Data” Thinkers 360
President, McKnight Consulting Group Inc 5000
linkedin.com/in/wmcknight
www.mcknightcg.com
(214) 514-1444

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“Artificial Intelligence is for Others”

Cloud Costs Out of Control Outdated Tools

Organizational Silos Resistance to Change

Data Strategy Technology

*RDBMS **Cloud Storage

Data Strategy Technology

Data Strategy Technology

Data Strategy Technology

Quantum Automated Data

Data is on the The need for

Hundreds of Nearly every

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