Record-keeping requirements flow from the records needed as inputs, outputs, controls and for transformation of a Data Architecture process. ask yourself: are the records needed as inputs to the Data Architecture process available? Have all basic functions of Data Architecture been defined? How is the value delivered by Data Architecture being measured? For your Data Architecture project, identify and describe the business environment. is there more than one layer to the business environment? Who sets the Data Architecture standards?

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better.

This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Data Architecture assessment.

All the tools you need to an in-depth Data Architecture Self-Assessment. Featuring 624 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Data Architecture improvements can be made.

In using the questions you will be better able to:

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Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Data Architecture Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Data Architecture areas need attention.

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