Len Silverston
President
Universal Data Models, LLC

Monday 9:00am - 12:15pm

Level: Business/All Levels

A key to any data integration effort is understanding the personal, cultural, and political environment and consciously employing proven principles to enable success. The most successful data integration efforts usually share one thing in common: they developed and implemented effective strategies that provided fertile cultural and political ground for success. This seminar will share techniques to help understand key principles and empower participants in meeting objectives and moving toward effective integration. It will provide case histories of successful and unsuccessful efforts, illustrating why some integration programs succeed and others fail. The instructor will share principles and actions that can either help or hinder integration efforts. The instructor will also share various insights, showing pitfalls of where data integration efforts can and have gone off course. There will be interactive exercises where participants can practice handling difficult issues that commonly arise by applying principles leading to effective Integration. Participants of this session will gain:

• An understanding of political and cultural factors for which successful data integration teams need to be aware and prepared
• Tools and principles to enable data integration such as keys in developing trust, gaining funding, delivering value, facilitating common vision, managing conflict, developing effective integration procedures, building off of other’s work, and gaining buy in.
• Real life stories of how culture and politics either killed or fostered effective Integration programs.
• Case examples and exercises allowing participants to practice overcoming challenges that Integration professionals often face.
• Education and experience in preparing for cultural and political challenges as well as applying powerful techniques for developing more effective environments, in this non threatening, classroom setting.