C3 Documents data scaling on a strategy level

SPC Concept strategy development follows five levels: policy, vision & mission, strategy, and road map. It is helpful to remember differences. We can find other classes or different names of the same meaning on the Internet, e.g., Blueprint, White paper, Action plans, and many additional studies focused on law, governance, economic, and technical aspects. 

This webbook strictly distinguishes governance structure for an organization's business and project processes.  Each policy level (vision and mission, strategy, and road map) is presented by a general description (from the Internet sources) and italic briefly commented on each SPC concept policy level.

Policy

The policy is a high-level overall plan embracing the general goals and acceptable procedures, especially for a governmental body. It should be a deliberate system of principles to guide critical decisions and achieve rational outcomes. Generally, it is a statement of intent, and governance bodies accept it within different organizations. 

Policies are only documents and not laws, but policies should update new rules. The policy document provides a higher-level control mechanism; in our cases, on the strategy level (both organization and project).

The ambition of the SPC Concept is to participate in the Algorithmic Framework Theory (AFT) vision and missions and develop and disseminate a new project paradigm for SED, DRR, and HP project and activities.

Vision, mission

Vision and mission statement defines both organization's business and project processes through one standard methodology. Statement examples of vision and mission say that anyone must have the idea, concept, or picture (a dream) on a strategy level. Only after that is ready (strong enough) to start work on the mission. It expresses the strong relationship between organization and project. Please compare the definitions below: 

  1. A Mission Statement defines the organization's business, objectives, and approach to reaching those objectives.

  2. A Vision statement describes the goal and value of the project in its business environment. Mission Statement defines the project processes, objectives, and approach to complete the project and gain final weight (value).

Elements of mission and vision statements are often combined to provide information on the company's purposes, goals, and values. However, for project strategy, such a mix is not essential.  

Examples of vision and mission linked to the SPC Concept are introduced in section C8.

Strategy

The strategy represents a general direction for an organization or project and its various components to achieve a desired state in the future. It is about integrating organizational activities and utilizing and allocating the scarce resources within the organization or project environment to meet the goal in the future (To-Be) set on the current practices (As-Is). Long-term planning on what to do to achieve the plan, intent, and purpose (goal) on the proper path. 

Strategy deals with long-term developments rather than routine operations, i.e., the probability of innovations or new products, new production methods, or new markets for the future. The strategy should consider stakeholders' probable behavior or a project in a risky environment (from disaster risks to competitors' influences). 

Policy and strategy procedures are entirely under Human responsibility, and any machine (computer) can only assist in this work but never operate on the critical decision-maker person. 

The strategy of the SPC Concept has a long history (see www.5pforres.eu), and the webbook 2021 summarizes the latest know-how and is open and ready for a broad international and interdisciplinary discussion.

Road map

A roadmap is a strategic plan that defines a goal or desired outcome and includes the significant steps or milestones needed to reach it. It serves as a communication tool. The roadmap is a bridge (or link) between strategy and execution levels and visualizes the key outcomes so an organization or a project achieves inputs for its vision. 

It is a long-term strategic document that shows the steps required to succeed. It does not show the individual items and necessary activities in fine detail. The road map is a flexible technical tool, primarily for specific solutions of a technology base. Road-mapping techniques may help companies to survive in turbulent environments both in company businesses and any project processes. It can combine with other foresight methods to facilitate changes systematically. 

The road map is firmly tight to specific tasks. A suitable example for this webbook is a road map of the UN. It is a road map for digital cooperation: implementing the High-level Panel's recommendations on Digital Cooperation and the Secretary-General's report. Below are five offers (requests) presented by the UN to communities worldwide:

  1. Build an inclusive digital economy and society.

  2. Develop human and institutional capacity.

  3. Protect human rights and human agency.

  4. Promote digital rust, security, and stability.

  5. Foster global digital cooperation.

Digital transformation and development and dissemination of a new project paradigm for SED, DRR, and HA projects are the critical tasks presented by this webbook.

Each of these strategic documents is crucial when introducing new organizational technologies and preparing for the digital transformation of private and public sector organizations. Therefore, there is an actual need to harmonize scaling strategies and analysts, digitization practices, and digital transformation principles. 

It is a way of managing works on "isolated islands," which fragment the work results and have a limited impact in a broader environment. Digital transformation drivers and their key elements come to the fore:

  • Clear data ontology based on current and anticipated transformation projects,

  • Positioning the master data model across key domains with established transformation procedures,

  • Management plans that clear state who is responsible for the quality and maintenance of each data set,

  • Complete understanding and proper preparation of technical security of built-in data environments.

Strategic documents can be integrated, interconnected, supplemented if they are processed according to a standard. Strategic documents can be integrated, interconnected, and supplemented if processed according to a standard that allows it. This webbook deals more detail with the strategy described in the Vision-Mission document. A model in Figure C3a shows the first approximation.

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