87. @bramwessel @factorfirm factorfirm.com
Organizational Alignment Questions:
What will it take to overcome siloes in your organization?
Do you have taxonomy emergencies? What is the
awareness within the organization of problems with how
information is managed?
What is the level of agreement among groups of
stakeholders that your challenges need to be addressed
at an enterprise level?
88. @bramwessel @factorfirm factorfirm.com
Organizational Alignment Questions:
Are interests aligned within and among stakeholder
groups? Is there a sense of a common purpose?
How motivated are stakeholders and the organization?
Is there enough pain to motivate people to
fundamentally change the way they work?
90. Influence and Buy-in Questions:
Do potential executive sponsors materially understand the
nature of the challenge?
Is there an executive or team of executives who are
responsible for the parts of the business that are
impacted?
Do executives sponsors have influence and the ability
to allocate budget at an organization-wide level?
93. @bramwessel @factorfirm factorfirm.com
Technology Questions:
What are the systems of record for different core
taxonomy assets?
Is there a need for a taxonomy management tool or
can enterprise-level information assets be maintained
manually or in a distributed fashion?
What are the modeling capabilities of systems of
record and other systems at play?
94. @bramwessel @factorfirm factorfirm.com
Technology Questions:
Are there gaps in the technology stack that are preventing
enterprise taxonomy management capabilities?
How well do systems integrate with each other?
97. @bramwessel @factorfirm factorfirm.com
Business Case Questions:
Is it easy to point to the business losing money due to the
lack of enterprise-level management of information assets?
Are there clear and present pain points arising from
the current state?
Is it easy to see how the business could make more
money or have a positive return on an investment in
shifting to an enterprise-level information strategy?
98. @bramwessel @factorfirm factorfirm.com
Business Case Questions:
Is there enough clarity to see a path to a desired
future state?
Are there business capabilities that the organization
lacks that an enterprise approach would enable?
Are the benefits of the desired future state clear?