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David Bowman
Information Management Architect
The
Consultant
An
information management architect, David Bowman helps helps
organizations accelerate product launch, improve competitive edge and
reduce costs.
He established a successful consulting practice in Ottawa in 1989,
relocated to Saint Lambert (Montreal) in 1995 and now provides
management consulting
services in the United States, Canada and Europe.
David Bowman has more than thirty-five years of information systems
engineering, data warehouse architecture, and project
management consulting experience.
Information
Management Architect Services
David
Bowman has earned an international reputation for helping clients
translate complex information management needs into practical
solutions, and for
providing technical leadership required to ensure very rapid project
development, successful implementation and reduced production support
costs.
He helps clients when they need to improve information
management efficiency, and they
require cost effective information management architect expertise to
plan, and rapidly implement, an information management framework
specifically tailored to meet business objectives
His consulting services specifically help senior IT management establish an
information
management discipline and data governance framework
The
Approach
Planning
and analysis
- Starts by working with senior management to create an information
management strategy project plan which clearly outlines management
expectations, roles, responsibilities, tasks and study deliverables;
- Analysis commences upon approval of the
project plan and includes a review of:
- Information structure and design, including conceptual data model;
- Data storage, including enterprise data management;
- Data movement, including conceptual data flow diagram;
- Data security;
- Meta data;
- Data quality management;
- Project management life cycle;
- Information management human resource strategy;
- Management information systems;
- Business intelligence strategy;
- Change management strategy;
- information management policies; and
- Data management strategy.
- The desired "to be" situation is evolved based on analysis findings; and
- An information management plan is evolved to define
achievable action plans needed to develop and implement a "tailor made"
information management discipline to meet business objectives
Information management development
- Starts upon approval of the information management plan;
- Involves client team members in the evolution of:
- An enterprise data model, including data modeling standards, and best practices;
- a database management plan including enterprise information architecture
- An enterprise data movement model, including data movement (ETL) best practices;
- data security policies and procedures;
- metadata management plan
- data quality management plan
- project management framework
- Information management human resource policies, including recommendations, if appropriate, for off shore resources;
- business intelligence framework
change management framework, including release management process;
Information management polices and procedures; and
data governance, standards
Information management implementation
- Relies heavily on mentoring client teams and
transferring knowledge; and
- Provides on-going technical leadership, coaching and
training to ensure successful implementation.
The
Results
Client teams fully empowered to meet information
management business challenges, maximize return on information
management investment and minimize reliance on external vendors
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