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Knowledge Discovery at CardinalHealth Medical Products and Services:
Institutionalizing an Enterprise-Wide Data Warehouse Capability
Traci Carte
Al Schwarzkopf
Terrie Shaft
Bob Zmud
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Knowledge Discovery
What enables an organization to obtain business value from a data warehouse?
What makes an effective knowledge discovery team?
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Organization
Problem Solving Team
Layers of Knowledge Discovery
IndividualIndividual
Individual
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A problem solving team that possesses or is able to gain access to required capabilities and carries out the roles that are necessary
for problem solution.
Who Is Involved in Knowledge Discovery?
Team {formal or spontaneous}
Roles {internal and boundary spanning}
Capabilities {information and knowledge}
Solution {delivery and dissemination}
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ess The Cardinal Healthcare Journey
Pre-History
Up to mid-1980s 1985-1995 1995-1998 1999-? future
Stand-Alone Data Marts
Enterprise Data Warehouse
Single-Source Reporting
Institutionalized into Daily Work Processes
Ubiquitous Data Warehousing
HORIZON Project
End User Computing
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ess Knowledge Discovery
Resource Model
Problem Requirements
• Business Knowledge• Data Knowledge
Knowledge Discovery Requirements
• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Organizational Antecedents•Information Culture•Data Infrastructure•Knowledge Infrastructure
Team Structure•Members’ Knowledge•Members’ Social Networks•Members’ Roles
Organization Capacities• Absorptive Capacity• Transformative Capacity• Combinative Capacity
Problem Resolution (Success)
Team Capabilities• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Dotted lines represent the formation of an ad hoc team
SolutionSolution
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Resource Model
Problem Requirements
• Business Knowledge• Data Knowledge
Knowledge Discovery Requirements
• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Organizational Antecedents•Information Culture•Data Infrastructure•Knowledge Infrastructure
Team Structure•Members’ Knowledge•Members’ Social Networks•Members’ Roles
Organization Capacities• Absorptive Capacity• Transformative Capacity• Combinative Capacity
Problem Resolution (Success)
Team Capabilities• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Dotted lines represent the formation of an ad hoc team
SolutionSolution
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ess Organizational Antecedents
Information Culture
Data-Driven Decision Style
Business-Led IT Innovation
“Pull” Information Culture
Dense Social Networks
Data Infrastructure
Single Data Source
Common Business Language
Data Access Training
Data Access Support structure
Knowledge Infrastructure
Merging of business, IT and data social networks
Merging of business process, data and data access capabilities
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Resource Model
Problem Requirements
• Business Knowledge• Data Knowledge
Knowledge Discovery Requirements
• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Organizational Antecedents•Information Culture•Data Infrastructure•Knowledge Infrastructure
Team Structure•Members’ Knowledge•Members’ Social Networks•Members’ Roles
Organization Capacities• Absorptive Capacity• Transformative Capacity• Combinative Capacity
Problem Resolution (Success)
Team Capabilities• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Dotted lines represent the formation of an ad hoc team
SolutionSolution
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Knowledge Discovery Capacity
Trigger Choice
Data Source Archive
TransformativeCapacity
CombinativeCapacity
AbsorptiveCapacity
Knowledge Source
Internal External
Inbound Reactivation Acquisition
Operations Synthesis Transformation Assimilation
Outbound Exploitation and Application
Marketing & Service
Distribution and Support
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Resource Model
Problem Requirements
• Business Knowledge• Data Knowledge
Knowledge Discovery Requirements
• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Organizational Antecedents•Information Culture•Data Infrastructure•Knowledge Infrastructure
Team Structure•Members’ Knowledge•Members’ Social Networks•Members’ Roles
Organization Capacities• Absorptive Capacity• Transformative Capacity• Combinative Capacity
Problem Resolution (Success)
Team Capabilities• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Dotted lines represent the formation of an ad hoc team
SolutionSolution
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Team Roles
Decision Support Data Warehouse
User Business Process Specialist
Intermediary *
Builder Business Data Specialist
Data Access Specialist
Technical Support Power User
Toolsmith Technologist
N/A Central Connector
N/A Boundary Spanner
N/A Information Broker
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Resource Model
Problem Requirements
• Business Knowledge• Data Knowledge
Knowledge Discovery Requirements
• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Organizational Antecedents•Information Culture•Data Infrastructure•Knowledge Infrastructure
Team Structure•Members’ Knowledge•Members’ Social Networks•Members’ Roles
Organization Capacities• Absorptive Capacity• Transformative Capacity• Combinative Capacity
Problem Resolution (Success)
Team Capabilities• Absorptive Capability• Transformative Capability• Combinative Capability
Dotted lines represent the formation of an ad hoc team
SolutionSolution
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Supplier Diversity ReportIdentified small business suppliers for Cardinal
Trigger Erroneous report submitted to government.
Data Source DW Archive
TransformativeCapacity
CombinativeCapacity
AbsorptiveCapacity
Knowledge Source
Internal External
Inbound Reactivation Acquisition
Operations Synthesis Transformation Assimilation
Outbound Exploitation and Application
Marketing & Service
Distribution and Support
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Standard HR ReportsRoll out of standard HR reports to all divisions.
Trigger Part of the SAP rollout
Data Source DW Archive
TransformativeCapacity
CombinativeCapacity
AbsorptiveCapacity
Knowledge Source
Internal External
Inbound Reactivation Acquisition
Operations Synthesis Transformation Assimilation
Outbound Exploitation and Application
Marketing & Service
Distribution and Support
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EntelligenceWeb system to allow customers to track their purchase
history.
Trigger Major corporate initiative in response to a competitor introducing a similar product.
Data Source DW Archive
TransformativeCapacity
CombinativeCapacity
AbsorptiveCapacity
Knowledge Source
Internal External
Inbound Reactivation Acquisition
Operations Synthesis Transformation Assimilation
Outbound Exploitation and Application
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Distribution and Support
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Delivery Plant Location Locate Alternate Warehouse Source for Local Out-Of-Stock
Items
Trigger Ad hoc initiative triggered when a power user recognized potential solution
Data Source DW Archive
TransformativeCapacity
CombinativeCapacity
AbsorptiveCapacity
Knowledge Source
Internal External
Inbound Reactivation Acquisition
Operations Synthesis Transformation Assimilation
Outbound Exploitation and Application
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Care Continuum Core ListIdentify a list of inventory items to be maintained as readily
available stock.
Trigger Ad hoc project that arose in staff meeting.
Data Source DW Archive
TransformativeCapacity
CombinativeCapacity
AbsorptiveCapacity
Knowledge Source
Internal External
Inbound Reactivation Acquisition
Operations Synthesis Transformation Assimilation
Outbound Exploitation and Application
Marketing & Service
Distribution and Support
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ess Critical Success Factors
Business Culture
• Business-directed IT innovation
• Data-driven decision-making and problem-resolution
• Knowledge capture and sharing
Data Infrastructure
• Business ownership of data capture, maintenance, analysis and reporting
• Single data repository
• Common, rich data access structure
Knowledge Infrastructure
• Common business language
• Dense social networks
• Merging of business, IT and data social networks
• Merging of business process, data and data access capabilities
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Boundary Spanner and Information Broker Proactive, rather than reactive, problem
recognition is associated with greater success in knowledge discovery• More complete problem definition
• More thorough problem analysis, solution generation and solution analysis
Leveraging member relationships across the enterprise and existing structures and processes is associated with greater problem-solving success• More complete problem definition
• More thorough solution generation
• More effective knowledge transfer