DAMA MN and IA would like to invite you on Wednesday, November 18th to our session with speaker Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D., CDMP. She is a highly acclaimed consultant, author, and speaker in the fields of enterprise information management, data governance, and data architecture.

Summary: All organizations, including commercial enterprises and government departments and agencies, need a guided approach to managing their data and information to obtain the maximum value for success in a challenging environment. An Enterprise Data Strategy provides the framework for any organization to deliver real information knowledge and provide true value to their stakeholders.

This 2-hour session provides the framework of an effective data strategy, explains its essential components, gives the steps that an organization should take to develop an enterprise data strategy based on a sustained data management program, and demonstrates some benefits that successful data strategies have achieved.