Information Coherence Group (ICG)

Do you have a problem with your information? Perhaps we can help we are Defence information analysts finding the causes for incoherent non re-usable information and putting it right! Subject matter experts for data definitions and reference information for the Army with in depth knowledge of the requirements for the Information DLOD.

Information Coherence Group (ICG) is a specialist group within CSD Applictions under the Directorate of the Signal Officer in Chief.

Information Coherence Group comprises of a mix of dedicated military and civil servants, highly skilled in business and information analysis, with a wide range of military and business experience.

But this can give problems to data understanding, data retrieval and data re-use.

Does this situation look familiar to you? Is your branch, business ( commercial or military) trying to do this?

First to identify the problem!

Are the definitions of your information properly understood? Does it mean the same thing to everyone? Or is there ambiguity? Do you need a common language to give a common understanding?

Within the MOD and in many commercial organisations legacy systems have written data/information to databases in isolation. With the amalgamation of organisations and the need to share and reuse data and information for business purposes these separate legacy systems also need to amalgamate in order to share data and allow date to be extracted for reuse as information. But there is a problem.

It is likely that the data in each separate legacy confirms to a different set of data standards and business rules. Also there maybe many different definitions and descriptions for the same data item depending on the system.

How to resolve this? Information Coherence Group can help.

How Information Coherence Group can help resolve the problem.

This can help with reconcilliation of the data,data retrieval and data reuse to give usable information.

The image shows a solution to the problem of reconciling data and information from many legacy systems into one usable database.

Through analysis of legacy systems wanting to share data via a single database the common elements can be identified, common data items with multiple descriptions and definitions can be mapped to in the different systems. Data standards can be reconciled and authorised standars can be afhered to. In this way a detailed common standard for all the systems can be reached.

Information Coherence Group, through the use of its tools, can provide an explicit and unambiguous statement of information requirement that has been approved by the user, that will improve consistency and reliability of information across information systems. It will reduce the time and effort in the development of information systems, and will deliver systems that meet the users information requirements.

It offers comprehensive MODAF views supported by information definitions that, through re-use, will improve consistency and reliability of information across information systems. It will give assurance that the information stored as data in disparate information systems will improve information sharing through semantic understanding.

Information Coherence Group can capture information requirements and enable information sharing across disparate organisations in the MoD and outside.

Information Coherence Group can help reconciling different data and information definitions into a common language to give a common understanding that evryone in your business can understand.

Contact us

Lt Col Val Robertson - Hd ICG

Miss Sally Wareham - Information Analyst

Mrs Sue Mccahy - Information Analyst

Sam Lam - Information Analyst

Mr Paul Chandler - Information Analyst

Maj David Woodford

Maj David Larkham

Address:
G20 Shannon Building,
Blandford Camp
Dorset DT11 8RH

Tel:   +44 01258 485326
        +44 01258 485518
        +44 01258 485517
Fax: +44 01258 485284

Email: SONIC-CSD Apps Group

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Information Coherence Group (ICG)