If you want to grow your business and your technology footprint, you often need to drive insight from analytics. But sometimes getting corporate processes and technology working together seamlessly can be challenging.
There are two reasons for this.
1. The size of the business. The bigger the business, the more decentralised the processes often become with Business Units managing their Analytics delivery in silos.
2. The enterprise’s technology initiatives. The more advanced technology innovations are, the more complex the deployment and support requirements to derive real value.
Utilising a robust command and control system, like IBM, will help you to cope with this complexity without restricting and calcifying enterprise productiveness.
Cornerstone and IBM’s approach
You can improve productivity and output by ensuring IT initiatives are not neglected and that your path to progress is smooth. To achieve both you will need a Centre for Enablement or the C4E.
What is a Centre for Enablement?
The Centre for Enablement (C4E) is an integrated Business and IT operating model for analytics that ensures…
1. Analytics platforms are operated under a governed set of policies, standards & processes.
2. Users are enabled via training, best practice guidelines and the community of practice.
The C4E is an operating model that enables an enterprise to build reusable assets, accumulate API’s, leverage best practices and knowledge to enable self-service and efficient analytics delivery in the organisation and implement new solutions faster.
It manages content within the overall environment to drive standards and re-use within the analytics domains. As a result, it simplifies and ensures an efficient roll out and ongoing management of analytics platforms within your organisation.
Their goal is to create, publish, and leverage shared assets and best practices including curated data sources. They encourage consumption and co-operation in the analytics community to help create self-reliance and optimise analytics performance through reviewing models and performance metrics.
The C4E should never be treated as an independent project, and should operate continuously, treating each asset as an integral part of the business, and a valued component of the whole enterprise.
Centre for Enablement vs Centre of Excellence.
The Centre for Enablement (C4E) should never be confused with The Centre of Excellence (CoE). Whereas the CoE is shielded, rationed and has limited transparency, the C4E has a more organisational approach and redefines the CoE by concentrating on enablement and delivery, while accelerating project time to value.
IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a cloud native, fully integrated data and AI platform that brings data management, data governance, data quality, data science and AI capabilities together in a seamless collaborative experience which provides a good opportunity to operationalise and enable your organisation’s Centre for Enablement (C4E). Cornerstone is IBM’s platinum business partner and understands how to create a C4E at your business. Schedule a Call with Cornerstone today to get started.
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