‘Let’s speak the same language’, was once said at the Amsterdam FP&A Board. Do you know what your FP&A Colleagues meant with this expression? And do you also find it challenging finding a common language within various departments of your company?
Irina Steenbeek
Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner and coach with more than 11 years of experience. She assists executive data management (DM) professionals in assessing data management's maturity and performance, implementing or optimizing data management frameworks, and developing a data lineage business case. For that, I offer a ready-for-use step-by-step methodology.
Author of " Data Lineage from Business Perspective," "The Orange Model of Data Management," "The Data Management Toolkit," and "The Data Management Cookbook," various white papers and a series of blogs on the topics of data management.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irina-steenbeek/
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A couple of weeks ago I joined the meeting of the Amsterdam FP&A Board where we discussed the subject of the FP&A analytical transformation. In the course of the meeting the participants mentioned their current main concerns, some of which such as Data ownership, Data quality, and Business Glossary (‘Speaking the same language’). This surprised me.
As promised in the previous article, let us go deeper into the relationship between FP&A and Data management (DM) and see how Data management enriches your FP&A role and successes.