Getting Down To Business

Trainers: Mel Norman & Tom Wainwright

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop you will be able to:

Know what data you could open
Map and engage stakeholders for open collaboration
Create a checklist of what you need to think about when
running open data projects
Know how to manage the risks of using open data

Agenda
Recap on the definition of open data
Open agenda:
First session:
Mel: Finding data to open
Tom: Open collaboration
Second session:
Mel: Manage/running open data projects
Tom: Managing Risk

Free discussion

About Mellissa
Working with companies to integrate technology innovations to grow their
business.

Business + Open Data Trainer for the ODI

Digital Business Strategist for tech, open data & digital companies
22 years as an Entrepreneur
1000+ people trained
Previous clients include: BBC, Drive Productions, Locatable, Royal
Shakespeare Company, NixonMcinnes
Ex Film Producer

About Dr Tom
Research into innovation within professional service firms and SMEs.

Centre of Innovation and Enterprise at Southampton Business School

Funded by government and private sector organisations
Previous partners and clients include: Barclays. EUROFOUND, ESRC,
South Korean Government
Research on open data business models, strategy, implementation,
barriers and sector development
Enjoys BBQs

About You
Name, Company, Role, +

Discuss with a partner what you

have learned today?

Agenda
First session:
Mel: Finding data to open
Tom: Open collaboration
Second session:
Mel: Manage/running open data projects
Tom: Managing Risk

About You
Briefly describe to a partner where
open data fits in your organisation?
What are the opportunities and/or
value of open data for you?

What is open data ?

Open data is data that is made

available by organisations,
businesses and individuals for
anyone to access, use and share.

can be linked to, so that it can be easily shared and talked about
is available in a standard, structured format, so that it can be easily processed
has guaranteed availability and consistency over time, so that others can rely on it
is traceable, through any processing, right back to where it originates, so others
can work out whether to trust it

http://theodi.org/guides/what-open-data

First Sessions

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Tom: Open Collaboration

Quality engagement:
OPENtelephone,
IN
Hackday, blogs, email,
face-to-face
Engagement helps decide:
What to release
How to release it
What does the data actually mean?
Data may be obvious -> context may not
Engagement can:
Enhance products
Open innovation
Be monetised

OPEN OUT

Tom: Open Collaboration

Which stakeholders would be interested in using open

data published by your organisation?

How could you best engage them?

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Mel: Finding Data To Open

OPEN IN

OPEN OUT

Write a list of the data that your company creates and uses.

What data could you open up and what would be the value of it?

Questions

The BM Framework
Slides by Tom Wainwright

www.businessmodelgeneration.com

Second Sessions

Tom: Open Data Risk Checklist

Format change

Copycat

OD closed

Legal: ownership and blame game

Ethical: protecting vulnerable

Use and abuse

Careful design: practices can violate OD principles

Tom: Mapping Data Risks

High Value

High Risk

Tom: Mapping Data Risks

Map some open data examples onto the risk matrix

How could you best manage the risk?

Mel: Managing Open Data Projects

List the possible challenges with

running open data projects and how
could you overcome them?

Mel: Managing Open Data Projects

Staff & teams

Internal/external comms
Policy
Budget
Structure
Culture
Marketing
Sales
Sustainability

Mel: Implementation Challenges

OPEN IN

OPEN OUT

Dirty data

Limited publication resource

Lmtd cntxt

What data have we got?!

Fragmented micro-geo
Finding RELEVANT data
Is it open: ambiguity continues

Cultural infrastructure
Managing risk
Why bother: costs and monetisation

After today:
What will you continue to do?
What will you stop doing?
What will you start doing?

Thank you!
@DrTommyW
@melmediasauce