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How to implement ECM?
Global best practices for implementing ECM
using the open methodology MIKE2

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Which 3 of these typical problems have affected your organization’s
document or records management implementation?
Implementation
Source:
AIIM ECM Survey
February, 2009
All respondents (284)
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
Underestimated process and organizational issues
Uneven usage due to poor procedures and lack of enforcement
Lack of knowledge or training among our internal staff.
Project derailed by internal politics
Low user acceptance due to poor design or clumsy
implementation
Excessive "scope creep"
Underestimated the effort to distill and migrate content
Poorly defined business case
Failed to secure agreement on fileplans, taxonomy and
metadata
Failed to think of benefits/issues beyond our business unit.
Lack of knowledge or training among our external
staff/suppliers.
Budget was overrun
Failed to prioritize "high-value" content
Actual
Anticipated

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The MIKE2 Methodology
 "MIKE2 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge
Environment) is an Open Source methodology for
Enterprise Information Management"
 Source: mike2.openmethodology.org
 Developed by BearingPoint, released as Open Source under Creative
Commons
 Meant to be repeatable and deliver working systems
quickly, following trends in manufacturing and
commercial software development
 Continuous improvement (Lean)
 Repeating implementation cycles (Agile)
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MIKE2 Phases (description)
 Phase 1 - Business assessment
 Phase 2 - Technology assessment
 Phase 3 - Information management roadmap
 Phase 4 - Design increment
 Phase 5 - Incremental development, testing, deployment
and improvement

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MIKE2 Phase 1
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Conduct initial direction setting with sponsor
 Sponsor needs to provide
insights
 Difficult or impossible to
do everything at once
 Scale of change
 Nature of the impact to the
organisation
 Cost
 Scope can be defined
across a number of
dimensions
 Geographic
 Organisational
 Legacy content
 Information types
 Information classes
 Timescales
 Prioritisation is key

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Programme charter: Overall approach
 Should be developed in 3
stages
 Current-state
 The environment
 The principles & the future-state
 Future-state
 Produce initial model
 Identify and consult stakeholders
across the organisation
 Review and revise
 Environment: Develop
high-level descriptions of
 Organisational behaviours
 ECM support organisation
structure
 ECM processes & instruments

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Drive
Drive
Support
Embodied
in
Defining organisational behaviours
ECM 'Best Practices'
Examples:
• Team-working across Functions
• Re-using, not re-inventing
• Proactive sharing of knowledge
ECM Procedures
Examples:
• Procedure for requesting a new
Team Site
• Procedure for declaring a record
to the ECM Repository
Organisational behaviours
Guidance & Protocols
What
we
use
the
infrastructure
FOR
The
WAY
we
use
the
infrastructure
ECM Rules
Examples:
• Information must be stored in the
appropriate location
• Information with corporate value
is stored to the ECM Repository
ECM Principles
Examples:
• Duty to Share
• Information as a Corporate
Resource
• Collaborative Working
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Organisational QuickScan for information
development
 Analyses current-state of
organisation across
multiple facets to identify
the baseline for the
organisation
 Aids in planning what it will take
to get to the future-state vision
 Assessments
 Application portfolio and
functionality
 Information flow
 Information delivery
 Information maturity and
infrastructure maturity
 Economic value of information
 Information processes
 People skills and organisational
structure

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Strategic business requirements
 Establishes the overall set of strategic business
requirements (business case) that translate into high
level information requirements
 Forms the basis for scoping the programme
 Strategic business vision
 Strategic critical success factors (CSFs)
 Strategic key performance indicators (KPIs)
 Strategic success measures
 Strategic change drivers

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Strategic business vision
 Defines what organisation wishes to achieve in the
Future-State
 Done by interviewing executives via scripts to capture
 Business objectives
 Competitive forces of concern
 Differentiation and positioning statements
 Major customers, buying habits and cycles
 Major suppliers and incentives
 Major competitors, substitutes and discriminators
 Industry and historical supply chains
 Success factors

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Business blueprint
 Key deliverable of MIKE2
 Final strategic analysis and synthesis of business
assessment work
 Completes and formalises the business vision
 Completion of business blueprint results in
 Prioritised requirements
 Programme plan
 Business case
 Programme blueprint

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Eat the elephant one bite at a time
 Go for specific projects,
one at a time
 Each project addresses
portion of ECM producing
business value
 Start with something nutritious,
not small and convenient
 Produce business case for
each of these projects
separately

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Prioritise requirements
 Refines the strategic information requirements
 Determines the sequence of projects
 Strategic vs. tactical
 Within scope and outside of scope
 Ranking done via group workshops with executives who
provided initial feedback
 With guidance of sponsor and stakeholders as appropriate
 Focus is on business requirements, not technology requirements
 Results in a list of work opportunities for the project

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Linking tactics to strategy
Users / other
stakeholders
Management /
executive board
Business area managers
Operational
(Consequential impact)
Tactical
Strategic
(C-level)
(Balanced scorecard)
Drives
Contributes to

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Business blueprint components
 Arranged in key sections
 Executive summary
 High-level programme plan
 Business case
 Strategic case
 Economic case
 Funding case
 Commercial case
 Project management case
 Future-state conceptual architecture
 Appendix

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MIKE2 Phase 2
You
are
here

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Technology assessment
 Concentrates on the technical aspects of your strategy
 Technology blueprint
 Strategically ties the business requirements developed in Phase 1 to a
logical and physical information architecture
 Completes the “strategic programme blueprint”
 Defines the overall programme delivery plan that provides the starting
point for the continuous implementation phase
 Refines the business requirements through ECM
 Defines the technology architecture
 Puts standards and technical infrastructure in place to support the
software development process

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Business drives technology
 Phase 1 and 2 parallelism
 Phase 1 deliverables must be completed before phase 2
can be completed
 Specifically, phase 2 requires the following from phase 1 before a full
infrastructure can be prescribed:
 Business vision
 High-level business case
 High-level information processes
 Scope of key systems

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How to produce requirements: Overview
 5 main stages
 1. Plan
 2. Gather
 3. Analyse
 4. Document
 5. Agree
 Some stages are iterative
and parts of entire process
can be iterative
Plan
Gather
Analyse
Document
Agree

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Conduct gap analysis of current-state and
future-state
 Identify key gaps between current-state architecture and
future-state
 Where will new capabilities be needed?
 What are those requirements?
 Becomes basis for RFP and vendor selection

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MIKE2 Governance model
Improved Governance and Operating Model

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Why information governance?
 Accountability for organisation’s information assets
 Good governance
 Ensures compliance with regulations and legislation
 Enables productivity improvements
 Enables organisation to respond to change and new opportunities
 Helps information exchange with customers, partners and providers
 Sustains good information management practices

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An information governance framework (IGF)
 A sound IGF includes
Policies
Processes
People
Tools &
technology
Standards
Audit

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The role of ECM in information governance
 ECM environment is
 Key tool for Information Governance
 Repository for corporate memory
 ECM systems depend on creation and maintenance of
‘Content Management Instruments’, including:
 Reference data (taxonomy, thesaurus, etc.)
 Metadata standard for information, including documents, records, and
websites etc.
 Security and access classification scheme
 Disposition schedules

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Continuous improvement
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Prevent
• Risk assessments
• Training
• Policies & procedures
• Executive commitment
Detect
• Audit
• Ombudsperson
• Monitoring
Respond
• Investigation
• Communication
• Improvements
• Employee discipline
Compliance Framework
Respond
Prevent
Detect

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MIKE2 Phase 3 Roadmap
• Roadmap

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Project roadmap overview
 Project roadmap is the guide for the entire project
 In each iteration of phase 3-5 however, it is the restricted guide for the
requirements and level of detail involved in a SINGLE iteration
 Tasks
 Define overall release functionality
 Identify and prioritise project risks
 Identify infrastructure dependencies
 Identify design dependencies
 Define acceptance procedures
 Define detailed project plan

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Identify and prioritise project risks
With each iteration, re-examine risks for iteration and project as a whole
Risk Likelihood Severity Mitigation
There is a risk to
schedule and
quality as
developers are
unfamiliar with
proposed
technology for the
project
Medium Severe Have two key developers undergo
training.
Have a third party specialising in this
technology review high level designs
before coding starts.
Prototype first two function points
before the remainder of the code is
developed.

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MIKE2 Phase 3 Foundation activities
 Software development readiness
 Enterprise information
architecture
 Taxonomy design
 Metadata development
 Solution architecture
definition/revision
 Prototype the solution
architecture

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Foundation activities (1)
 Focused on ensuring that the environment is ready and
that basic solution decisions have been made
 Important to establish at the beginning of each design,
develop, deploy increment
 Primarily focused on understanding information issues,
resolving these problems and defining target content
models
 If not conducted first, other subsequent implementation
work is likely to fail

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Foundation activities (2)
 Technical and design foundations
 Iterative
 Risk assessment and management

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Taxonomic needs assessment
Source: Dave Snowden
Cynefin framework

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Developing a taxonomy
Identify
stakeholders
Define
purpose
Determine
approach
Collect
information
Develop
scheme
Pilot scheme
Deploy
scheme
Gather
feedback

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MIKE2 Phase 4
You
are
here

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Identify training and administration guide
requirements
 Used to estimate training needs
 Varies depending on complexity of the system, amount of change to the
organisation required and ability of users to absorb the material
 Questions answered
 What is the nature of the audience and the contexts they will be using
the ECM environment?
 Who will need the documentation, at what level, when and why?
 Typical targets for training
 Departmental users
 System operators
 Management

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Develop outlines for operational manuals
 There will be multiple operational manuals, targeted at
the specific audiences identified
 Typical examples
 User procedures manual – for specific business functions
 Operations procedures manual – for technical operations
 Desk procedures – how to do specific business jobs using the system
 Tasks
1.Examine existing operational manuals for corporate standards
2.Determine satisfaction with existing manuals
3.Based on identified requirements, build outline, vet with audience

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Design backup and recovery procedures
 If your solution is based on a single provider, single
repository - in a word, simple - fairly straightforward
 Distributed, federated, integrated solutions exponentially more complex
 Dirty secret of the ECM industry that backup and recovery is
exceedingly difficult
 Multiple repositories, integration paths, databases, indices, linkages
between documents and repositories
 Best approach
 Closely work with solution provider and/or integrators to design and
verify backup and recovery will actually work

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Business value of prototyping
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Cumulative
business
value
time
uncertainty decreases over time
Source (top): Barry Boehm
Source (bottom): Jeff Patton, www.agileproductdesign.com
uncertainty

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MIKE2 Phase 5
 Develop
 Testing
 Training
 Deploy
 Operate
 Ongoing improvement
 Closeout

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Develop user support documentation
 Created to provide step-by-step documentation, with
appropriate screenshots, to illustrate an entire process
or task
 Supplements any automated processes implemented within the system
 Keep in mind how documentation is intended to be used
in YOUR environment
 Stand-alone reference manual
 Basis for live or on-demand training
 Develop at level of detail necessary for final use

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Develop operations support guides
 Introduction
 Document distribution list
 Document change process
 Application overview
 Production environment
 Production architecture overview
 Production environment components
 Application servers
 Web servers, etc.
 Security
 Server security configurations
 Security log reviews
 Guidelines for access
 Account administration
 Data centre procedures
 Startup/shutdown
 Job scheduling
 Monitoring & logging
 Load balancing
 Problem management
 Change management
 Vendor management
 Backup/restore procedures for application
components
 System maintenance
 Print services
 Failure
 Appendix A - User account setup process &
access rights
 Appendix B - Service level agreements
 Appendix C - Contact matrix
 Appendix D - Software versions list
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Technology backplane development
 Making this available as soon as possible is critical for
the development of ECM system
 Provides “developer ready” environment to build and test system based
on work done in foundation activities and design
 Acquisition and training of developers was covered in phase 4
 Tasks
 Implement target repository
 Develop content interface components
 Develop process/automation components
 Develop metadata management integration
 Develop infrastructure management processes

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User testing
 Pilots and model offices are popular approaches
 Refine design and implementation of new ecm-enabled environment by
directly involving users
 Pilot approach
 Trial of ‘draft’ proposed environment
 Uses a small subset of users
 Usually in their normal working environment
 Model office approach
 More of a ‘laboratory’ environment - somewhat rare
 Typically used to ‘get it right’, before moving to a pilot

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Model offices & pilot: Benefits
 Technical evaluation
1. Functional testing
2. System integration testing
(SIT)
3. End-to-end testing (E2E)
4. Stress and volume testing
(SVT)
 Functionality evaluation
 Does it do all that is specified
and required?
 Finalise environment
 Ensure all aspects of
environment are defined
 Establish and ‘freeze’ a
configuration for roll-out
 Training development
 Develop and assess training
materials and methods
 Train the trainers, help desk staff,
floor-walkers
etc.

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Production deployment
 Post-pilot and/or model office work, the environment
finally reaches a deployment-ready state
 Final steps for deployment involved finalising how the
solution will be deployed technically for production use
 Tasks
1. Define distribution and installation method
2. Deploy baseline production environment
3. Deploy software to production

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Deploy software to production
 Solution is ready to be released into production, with
final evaluation and launch of the solution to the target
communities
 Production and operation procedures should be up and
running alongside the infrastructure itself

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Evaluation and launch
 Post technical deployment is the final evaluation,
scheduled launch and post-launch verification and
support
 Transfers operations and support from the
development/project team to operations personnel for
solution moving forward
 Contingency plans for any issues in final testing and
launch should be in place and ready to activate, should
any severe issues be identified
 Validates that system is truly ready for rollout

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Training feedback loop
 Collect feedback
 At the time
 And later
 Review, learn and improve
Review
Learn
Improve

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Importance of change readiness assessment
 Organisational change will always appear threatening
 People think of job security
 Some enterprises more freely disseminate information regarding change
and strategy than others
 You need to assess your enterprise’s readiness to
change
 Readiness of management and the workers affected by the change
 How technology is used (or not) within the organisation
 QuickScans and early assessments of Phase 1 provide
diagnostic tools, while this module is focused on
enabling necessary change

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Best practices for implementing change
 Change needs to be managed, but there are many
different methods for this
 However, these methods share common themes
 Most important theme: change occurs in the context of
the enterprise’s natural and recognised capabilities
 All successful models
 Address all elements of change
 Provide a process for introducing change
 Address critical success factors

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Creating user “wins”
 Early wins create a “Yes” environment
 Wins should be promoted widely
 Leverage existing and new “super users”
 Wins should be clear cut
 Not open to interpretation
 Wins should bring benefits to all
 Wins should appear to come easily
 Even a big bang approach can be
delivered via a series of smaller wins…

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