Best Practice for Implementing a Data Warehouse: A Review for Strategic Alignment
Short summary:
Data warehouses do have strategic and therefore long term value for an organization. The case study review in this paper supports the notion of strategic alignment but it is the mapping of their experiences to the configuration school of strategic management that explains the degree of success
Long summary:
This paper originates from an information gathering exercise that concentrated upon further investigation of the elements of 'best practice' and whilst not a formal experiment, there is sufficient information to illustrate how the data warehousing literature has changed over the last eight years. The literature review demonstrates that fewer authors place any emphasis on the need to align their data warehouse with corporate strategy and business objectives, which may suggest that project teams are not being encouraged to think of data warehousing as a strategic tool and raises one fundamental question; is strategic alignment an unattainable goal? If not, what do organisations have to do to realize their data warehousing vision?
The examination of best practice will be presented in section two of this paper in order to highlight the issues affecting data warehouse implementation projects both pre and post 2000. This will be followed by a case study in section three, which will emphasize the strategic potential for data warehousing. The organization at the heart of the case study managed to successfully align the data warehouse with the corporate strategy, but alignment itself does not fully explain the scale of success. Success is rationalized by mapping the organization's experiences with the configuration school of strategic management. Finally, section four will summarize the issues raised in this paper with the conclusion that organisations should be prepared to reconfigure many aspects of their operational structures in order to successfully integrate and exploit the potential that data warehousing has to offer for long term benefit
Source: sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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