CDQ Academy for Data Excellence: Your Data Management Training

Professional data management is more important now than ever and has evolved its meaning from reactive necessity to a competitive advantage enabler. That’s why companies increasingly consider data a business-critical asset, with tangible impact on business operational capabilities, business model enhancements, compliance and many other aspects. Many of today’s data management approaches and concepts, however, should be revised and modernized in order to create business value from data.

The CDQ Academy was established to provide professional education in the area of data management. This specialized program has been built in response to the widespread need for practical training in data quality management. Since 2013, more than 400 participants have benefited from the data management expertise of CDQ and the Institute of Information Management of the University of St. Gallen.

Why should you join the CDQ data management training?

Do you want to learn more about data quality management? What is the most applicable description of your current situation in context of data management?

• "I'm new to my data management role or have got a new project"
• "With our data quality issues I find myself fighting against the windmills”
• "I have been working in the field for years, but would like to explore the state-of-the-art trends and practices”
• “My company has only started to establish data management function as a permanent discipline”

With the help of the CDQ Academy, you get an efficient entry and deep insights into data management concepts and best practices. You will receive answers to many common questions, like:

• Data strategy: How do I argument the business value of data management improvements?
• Data quality: How do I measure data quality or which KPIs are relevant?
• Data management roadmap: What are the state-of-the-art developments and trends?
• Data governance: How other companies have structured data governance roles?

During the three seminar modules experts from CDQ AG and representatives from various industries will share their experience, practical solutions and real-life use cases. In addition, in small working groups you will try out the new concepts in practice. By joining the CDQ Academy data management training, you stay tuned to the state-of-the-art data management know-how and grow your network of data-oriented peers.

Structure of the CDQ data management training program

This data management program is based upon the practice-proven CDQ Data Excellence Management (DXM) Framework, that is a structured reference model addressing all aspects of developing and maintaining effective data quality in digital and data-driven companies. This model has been developed in a joint effort by the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ). The program consists of three training modules:

• Module 1: "Data Excellence for Business Value"
• Module 2: "Governance and Data Quality Management"
• Module 3: "Data Architecture, Life-Cycle and Applications"

Module 1: Data Excellence for Business Value

Excellence drivers in data management, corresponding strategy development and continual improvements

Module 1 addresses principal business outcome drivers and capability requirements for effective data management that delivers measurable business value. Participants will explore frameworks for contribution of data excellence and its implications for data strategy and roadmap development. This session will also cover an approach to ensuring effective and sustainable improvements in key data capabilities across people, process and technology areas. The conceptual foundation is validated by numerous good practice examples across variety of industry types.

Module 2: Governance and Data Quality Management

Data-oriented governance setup, data quality management and performance assessments

This data management course provides fundamentals for two key data management enabler areas - data governance and performance measurement system. You will learn about typical data management roles and responsibilities, how they become operational in various organizational models, how to design a purposeful data quality monitoring framework and use it for continual corrective and optimization measures. The presented concepts and models are complemented with practical insights into deployment approaches, with reflections on lessons-learned from implementation experience, again with a number of good practice examples.

Module 3: Data Architecture, Life-Cycle and Applications

Enabling aspects for data management in context of business processes and IS environment

The third data management module focuses on very operational aspects of data management - data models, life-cycle processes and lineage, including perspectives on information architecture requirements and solutions. Participants will also familiarize themselves with essential software components supporting data management activities.

Your benefits of joining the CDQ Academy for Data Excellence

• Build up the case for state-of the-art data management through conceptual foundations, templates and practical insights packed into each 2-day training module
• Experts from large international companies will share practical insights and report on challenges and solutions from their daily practice
• Experienced consultants share their methods and tools in data management
• In small groups you directly apply the newly learned concepts in a creative atmosphere
• Get inspired by questions from other participants and by confronting your ideas with practices from the others – coming from various industries and markets
• Strengthen your motivation and nurture your thinking forward – cross-check your data management roadmap with other practitioners
• Extend your network! You will enjoy plenty of time for personal exchange during coffee and lunch breaks as well as at the dinner
• We are happy to post pictures of you as a speaker (if you wish) on social media channels (e.g. LinkedIn) – so you and your company will also be discerned for data management expertise

Facts about CDQ Academy for Data Excellence

• You may attend the training modules in any order (e.g. start from Module 2)
• Upon completion of all 3 modules you will obtain a certificate from the University of St. Gallen
• Off-line copies of training documents and supplementary publications of the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality on a USB stick
• Drinks and food during the coffee and lunch breaks are included
• Discounts for groups and CC CDQ Members available
• Your investment is CHF 2'150 per 2 days training module
• The CDQ is under the direction of Prof. Dr. med. Reinhard Jung from the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen and Dr. Zib Korendo from CDQ AG

Where does the data management training take place?

The CDQ Academy for Data Excellence training takes place in Frankfurt. The training facilities are easy to reach and offers a pleasant learning environment. If you need more information, please feel free to contact us!

Preview: Further training dates for the Academy

*To be confirmed