The Intralign Ecosystem
An information management landscape that puts information quality into the hands of your business community
Too many businesses see information governance as completed checklist of requirements or procedure manuals, written and available on the shelf. Governance done.
Not even close.
Governance isn’t a set and forget action. It’s a community of information experts actively ensuring your business landscape is one that maintains effective information management by managing the foundations that deliver you that information.
“..data governance tools look at a glossary as a secondary, and often more inferior, objective. However, with Intralign, the importance of well-structured definitions, term governance, and artefact management are at the core of their service since they understand the importance of consistent, well-managed and usable terms as the foundation of data governance."
Macquarie University
Rebecca McMartin, Glossary Administrator & Data Governance Analyst
See under the surface of your information
The Intralign Ecosystem approach is a dynamic and evolving approach to information governance that allows you to see under the surface of your information issues.
Businesses often suffer from the information iceberg – you experience unreliable reporting, difficulty obtaining the right numbers or unresolvable reporting problems.
But despite big IT spends and teams of clever, experienced people, the causes of the problems can’t be found – they lie beneath the surface, invisible and unresolved.
The Intralign Ecosystem gives businesses the ability to see under the surface, establishing information governance best practice processes, gold standard business language and effective information artefact management. And it’s all built on a community of engaged information stakeholders in your organisation.
The Intralign Ecosystem delivers governance teams and senior leaders four key abilities that enable the maintenance of this high-level information management:
Visibility over what’s really going on in your business, under the surface of your numbers;
Accountability via solid governance frameworks that ensure someone is responsible for each part of the information generation process;
Capability training for your governance team and information management stakeholders, as well as general staff training in IM responsibilities;
Measurability of all steps in your IM procedures, because what gets measured, gets done.
The Intralign Ecosystem includes:
The Intralign Encyclopaedia
The Intralign Definition Writing Standard
The Intralign Governance Frameworks
Your information management community
Your business terms, and
Your information artefacts.
Education, mentoring and community upskilling
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Business assurance won’t exist without information quality. Investing in your team’s ability to effectively manage and govern your business information can reduce risk, stabilise tech spend and enable innovation and development that information issues were preventing.
With the visibility, accountability, capability and measurability that the Intralign Ecosystem enables, you’ll understand the quality of your information and have the ability to see where issues exist, find their root causes, establish resolution pathways and monitor progress.
The cost of not managing business information can be high
Not many businesses manage and govern their business information well. And this leads to problems.
We’ve seen it create:
large scale, unseen profit leakage,
major regulatory and reputational risk,
conflicting metrics reporting across an organisation, and
huge costs trying to rectify problems that never would have existed if these resources were well managed.
“We worked with three consultants who were all exceptionally talented and great communicators... Initially the focus of the workshops was to tailor governance structures and processes that were sustainable for the University. Then we moved on to develop well over one hundred business term definitions…… we experienced high levels of engagement from staff regardless of their level in the organisation. "
University of Western Sydney
Kerrin Paterson, Manager - Business Intelligence and Data Management
The Intralign Ecosystem – Stage 1
The Intralign Ecosystem is an information management landscape that establishes the solid foundations for the information quality and reliability that your business needs to succeed. The Stage 1 package begins to build and implement the skills, knowledge, artefacts and software that enable your team to deliver reliable, quality information.
The Intralign Ecosystem – Stage 1 builds and strengthens the four ‘abilities’ of solid information foundations: visibility over your information, accountability for it, capability in building and maintaining information quality, and the measurability that ensures your information, and the foundations underpinning it, are being actively and successfully managed.
The Stage 1 Package delivers your team with the education and support they need to:
establish governance, frameworks and software that can successfully manage your IM activity
write gold standard definitions using the Intralign Definition Standard
build out your glossary content by undertaking the Writing Business Definitions - The Intralign Structured Approach Course
develop definition writing workshop facilitation skills in key glossary management staff through mentoring with Intraversed-led workshops & support, ensuring glossary building can continue successfully until complete
tackle difficult or complex definitions with support and assistance from Intraversed experts through regular support blockbusters
use the Intralign Encyclopaedia platform, the most comprehensive business glossary on the market, allowing automatic application of the Intralign Standard and using best practice glossary governance as its foundation.
The Intralign Ecosystem – Stage 2
Following on from Stage 1, the Intralign Ecosystem – Stage 2 continues your team’s education and mentoring, developing a comprehensive information management hub using the Intralign Encyclopaedia. Stage 2 transforms your information management activity into a landscape that can deliver stronger business assurance, reliable numbers and a stable IT spend.
The Intralign Ecosystem – Stage 2 establishes the Intralign Encyclopaedia artefact register, fully cross-linked to glossary terms developed during Stage 1. Stage 2 also establishes the governance and management of the Intralign Information Issues Management component of the Encyclopaedia, which ensures your business has visibility over information issues throughout the organisation.
Stage 2 education, mentorship and support is only available to clients who have completed the Stage 1 package.
For more information, please contact usLet Intraversed show you how the Intralign Ecosystem can help you achieve better quality information
We can set up a live, online demonstration of the Intralign Ecosystem for you, to explain how better governance over your information foundations can give you visibility over your information issues.