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Roadmap for implementing standards (GSBPM / GSIM / GAMSO / CSPA) in the context of a modernisation maturity model

I Background

Under the supervision of the High Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics (HLG), the Modernisation Committee on Standards (MCS) considers and makes proposals on how to develop, enhance, integrate, promote, support and facilitate implementation of the range of standards needed for statistical modernisation. The MCS has the operational responsibility for the maintenance and development of the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM), the Generic Statistical Information Model (GSIM) and the Generic Activity Model for Statistical Organisations (GAMSO).  The Common Statistical Production Architecture (CSPA) is currently being developed by the Modernisation Committee on Products and Methods (MCPM). The idea of creating a roadmap for implementing these standards in the context of a modernisation maturity model was proposed at the Standards based modernisation workshop in Geneva, May 2015. The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) defines a maturity model in the following way: "A maturity model is a means of and scale for evaluating and assessing the current state of maturity. A maturity model also provides a means for developing a transformation roadmap to achieve a target state of maturity from a given current state of maturity. It quantifies the relative growth of certain salient aspects within various dimensions typically within, but not limited to, organizational boundaries." The Modernisation Committee on Production and Methods successfully used a modernisation maturity model, based on OSIMM, to assess readiness for adopting CSPA compliant services.

II Project objectives

The aim of this project is to make a roadmap for implementing standards (GSBPM / GSIM / GAMSO / CSPA) in the context of a modernisation maturity model.

The use of a maturity model allows an organisation to have its methods and processes assessed according to best practice, against a clear set of external benchmarks.

Maturity is indicated by the attainment of a particular "maturity level". A maturity level assessment will provide the following benefits:

  • A known maturity level, with precise recommendations on how to improve
  • Ability for organizations to compare their maturity level with other organizations
  • A consistent set of questionnaires and scoring
  • An independently held set of "benchmarks".

The implementation of the standards in a coherent framework, where the inter-relationships among standards are made more evident as opposed to implementing each standard alone, will enhance the synergies among the standards.

III Scope

The standards to be included are GSBPM, GSIM, GAMSO and CSPA. CSPA LIM, currently in progress, is to be understood as a part of CSPA.

SDMX and DDI are also important standards for statistical modernisation, clearly connected to both GSIM and CSPA, but these are considered to be out of scope for this project proposal, given the time and resources estimated for this project. SDMX and DDI are maintained, developed and supported by other international organisations and working groups/consortia. There might be a need to mention these two and possibly other standards as examples of best practices, to help to measure the level of maturity, but they are not the primary focus of this project.

The modernisation maturity model for the implementation of standards will be a useful starting point to develop a road map towards continual modernisation. However, a maturity model for modernisation goes beyond the ability to just implement standards. Standardization is only a portion of the effort to modernise production of statistics.

Regular and systematic update of the roadmap and modernisation maturity model for the implementation of standards, once this project has been completed, would be a natural task for the Modernisation Committee on Standards

IV Content

Activities

Agree on the scope and a set of dimensions along which modernisation maturity will be measured.

Create a draft modernisation maturity model

Test and update the modernisation maturity model

Create a roadmap to guide organisations on how to implement the standards (GSBPM / GSIM / GAMSO / CSPA) in the context of the modernisation maturity model.

Deliverables

  • The first deliverable will be a draft modernisation maturity model
  • The second deliverable will be a trial of the draft modernisation maturity model amongst the participants in the project resulting in an updated modernisation maturity model that can be used by all statistical organisations
  • The third deliverable will be a roadmap, indicating paths and milestones on the road to implementation of the standards (GSBPM / GSIM / GAMSO / CSPA) in the context of the modernisation maturity model. The roadmap should also indicate types of support that NSOs, at different maturity levels, would need in order to implement the different standards.

V Definition of Success

The modernisation maturity model for the implementation of standards (GSIM / GSBPM / GAMSO / CSPA) is developed and promoted by the international statistical community.

The modernisation maturity model and roadmap for the implementation of standards are maintained by the Modernisation Committee on Standards.

Statistical organisations are able to use the roadmap to help them to move to a higher maturity level.

Statistical organisations are supported in implementing the standards in a coherent and comprehensive framework/approach.

The modernisation maturity model is used as one of the best practices required for the modernization process to achieve efficient production of high quality official statistics, oriented to satisfy the needs of its users.

VI Expected costs

The following table shows an estimate of the minimum resources and other costs needed to deliver the different deliverables. Each organisation involved in the project will be expected to cover the costs of their participation. 11 NSOs have indicated their interest in participating in this project: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Estonia, Hellenic Statistical Authority in Greece, Central Statistics Office in Ireland, Central Bureau of Statistics in Israel, Istat in Italy, Statistics Finland, INSEE in France, National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI), Statistics Norway, Office for National Statistics in UK.

Deliverable

Estimated resources

Source of resources

Other costs
 
 

1: Draft MMM

3 person months

Volunteer NSOs plus UNECE Secretariat

None

2: Tested & updated MMM

1 person month

Volunteer NSOs plus UNECE Secretariat

None

3: Roadmap

5 person months

Volunteer NSOs plus UNECE Secretariat plus   volunteer external reviewers

None

4: Project management and coordination

1 person month

A part-time project manager from a volunteer NSO plus UNECE Secretariat.

Occasional input from project steering group members, and HLG members (in their role as project sponsors)

Up to $500 for telecommunications and other incidentals

Total

10   person months

UNECE   Secretariat (1 person month)

NSO   / International organisation staff (10 person months)

Up to $500 for telecommunications and other incidentals

VII Timetable

The project will start in January 2016 and end in December 2016.

Del.

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

1

X

X

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

o

o

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

 o

o

o 

o 

o

o 

o 

X 

X 

X 

 

4

X

o

X

o

o

X

o

o

o

o

X 

X

o - low activity, X - high activity

VIII Governance

Methods of work: Work mainly via electronic communication (email and wiki) and telephone/video conferencing. May also meet physically, if necessary, on the margins of other meetings.

 

 

 

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8 Kommentare

  1. Remi Prual sagt:

    X

    I suggest to use zeros or O-s instead of small X-s to see the activity more clearly. Colored cells could help as well.

  2. Remi Prual sagt:

    HLG

    All other abbreviations seem to be explained in this document, except HLG. Should be added I suggest.

  3. Remi Prual sagt:

    SDMX and DDI are also important standards for statistical modernisation, but these are considered to be out of scope for this project proposal because they are maintained, developed and supported by other international organisations and working groups/consortia.

    Why is it needed to mention SDMX and DDI at this stage? Is it for the HLG and ourselves to be focused, to define the scope? I mean there might be later a need to mention those two and other standards as examples of used practices, to help to measure the level of maturity.

  4. Remi Prual sagt:

    modernisation maturity model (MMM)

    Have there been any agreements on use of TOGAF / OSIMM or ... for MMM? I searched and couldn't find any information about that except Steven Vale mentioning plans in one of his presentations.

  5. Remi Prual sagt:

    A consistent set of questionnaires and scoring

    Regular and systematic update of the set of questions and actually the whole MMM should be mentioned and planned, as the world and therefore statistical systems are changing. also modernisation is a continuous process. For example if we look at ESS Vision 2020, then there will probably be some changes coming in next years from its implementation portfolio projects (incl validation, admin and big data etc).

  6. Jenny Linnerud sagt:

    I have attempted to include this under Scope.

  7. Jenny Linnerud sagt:

    MC P&M chose to base the assessment of readiness for adopting CSPA compliant services on the widely recognised and applied Open Group Service Integration Maturing Model (OSIMM).  See the CSPA Readiness Report under Relevant documents/links. We will probably do something similiar, but we should also be open to any discussion and input from project participants in January next year, if the HLG approves our project proposal. 

  8. Juan Muñoz sagt:

    My comments are the following:

    • We are going to define a roadmap taking a maturity model that hasn't been defined as the base of it. It's something risky to make this asseveration, because we need to state first the orientation of the maturity model, its dimensions and its own scope. The maturity model could be something that will serve to assure the readiness to adopt the standards, or picture a path to implement the standards, or any completely different to tell us how efficient can be the organization to produce statistical information using standards and best practices among other tools to be considered as a leader in its own field.
    • For the stated above, I'm not sure if we must restrict the maturity model and the roadmap to the capability to implement just a fixed set of standards. I'm agree that the stated set of standards are a necessary alignment point to keep the roadmap well landed, but a maturity model for modernization goes beyond than the ability to implement the standards. Standardization is only a portion of the effort to modernize production of statistics.
    • The set of standards in real terms is a set of models, which are good to define common frameworks. GAMSO and GSBPM have a different orientation than GSIM or than CSPA but all of them can be joint together to stablish a well suited environment to produce statistical information with great quality and in an efficient way.  
    • A maturity model will show with a series of indicators how able is the organization to get a set of common goals that has been defined in a certain field as practices that all the organizations in that industry should aim to follow.
    • In short: I think we should not center the target of the maturity model in the implementation of standards as such, but must use them as a benchmark to measure the ability of an a statistical office to implement, as one of the practices required for modernization process to achieve efficient production of high quality official statistics oriented to satisfy the needs of its users.

     

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