SEMINARS AND TRAINING

WILLIAM G. SMITH & ASSOCIATES offers an extensive set of inhouse (at the client site) training seminars in Data Modeling, Information Resource Management (IRM), Data Resource Management (DRM), Process and Transaction Modeling, and a number of other IRM-related disciplines. Over the past 30 years, we have taught Data Modeling,IRM and DRM to literally thousands of information professionals, IS/IT managers, business people and managers, and enterprise executives. Our instructors are all expert practitioners in the subject matter they teach, and welcome a vigorous give-and-take interaction with attendees to make the seminar as valuable and useful as possible. Our objective is always to ensure that every attendee leaves a WGS&A seminar absolutely ready and able to use the education and skills they've been taught.

You may see much more detail (including the full topical outline) for each seminar by choosing the title links below:

DATA MODELING SEMINARS

• CONCEPTUAL DATA MODELING: THE ENTITY / RELATIONSHIP MODEL
• LOGICAL AND PHYSICAL DATA MODELING
• DATA MODELING FOR DATA WAREHOUSE
• OVERVIEW OF DATA MODELING - CONCEPTUAL, LOGICAL, AND PHYSICAL

INFORMATION AND DATA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SEMINARS

• CONCEPTS OF INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
• DATA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
• TRANSITION FROM THE IS/IT ENVIRONMENT TO THE IRM ENVIRONMENT
• OVERVIEW OF INFORMATION RESOURCE MODELS AND IMPLEMENTATION/MIGRATION PLANNING
• ENTERPRISE-WIDE CONCEPTUAL MODELING OF INFORMATION RESOURCES
• LEADERSHIP, POLICIES, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL FOR EFFECTIVE INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

FUNCTIONAL/PROCESS/TRANSACTION MODELING SEMINARS

• FUNCTIONAL/PROCESS MODELING TECHNIQUES
• MODELING AND IMPLEMENTING FUNCTIONALLY-NORMALIZED PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS

COMBINED PROCESS AND DATA MODELING SEMINARS

• INTEGRATED CONCEPTUAL, LOGICAL AND PHYSICAL PROCESS AND DATA MODELING
• ENTERPRISE-WIDE CONCEPTUAL MODELING OF INFORMATION RESOURCES

OTHER SEMINARS

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE IRM ENVIRONMENT
• BUILDING IN DATA QUALITY
• SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION OF MODELING SESSIONS

Please CONTACT us if you have questions, or are prepared to discuss scheduling a seminar.