A future state vision helps your agency understand your requirements for creating improved services, systems or processes.
When developing the future state vision consider:
- researching user needs to engage directly with internal and external stakeholders and to understand how data may be used. Identify requirements such as data format, taxonomy or structure
- assessing the feasibility of the improved state against your agency's capabilities. A 'minimum viable product' can help this process.
- engaging consistently with the senior leadership team to gain the authority you need for decisions
- creating customer story maps (user stories) to understand a user's journey and their goals, actions, means and hurdles
Key participants
The key participants required for a future state vision would be similar to those required for the current state assessment:
Key participants may include:
- project sponsor
- business and data analyst
- data / information architect
- data consumers
- security specialist
- subject matter experts
- IT developer
- data specialist
- information governance manager
- data champion
- Chief Information Governance Officer