Organization of your information and the core of your Business Model

What is your primary information focus? Are you the executive of the company? Are you a person working in one of the different business areas?

Either way, your information has a primary focus. That focus may be changing as the company needs to transform to the new business model. Some of this is being instigated by the government with its emphasis on changing healthcare, green incentives, and financial instruments.

How do these trends affect the core of your information? Here are a few examples:

• In healthcare, the switch is from procedure to patient wellness.
• In green energy, the concentration is changing the pricing and measuring of energy units.
• In financial, restrictions eliminate previous money making opportunities.

These are just examples that have a profound impact the way the data is organized. The core, with all other information dependent upon the core, is changing.

Before you talk to your geeks about a new business model, determine if you have a change in primary focus. That will be the new center in which all data is organized.

Next, ask your chief information officer (CIO) what the impact will be to convert the existing data organization to realign to the new primary focus for your department or company. The CIO will provide you some information about how long it will take to convert to the new business model.