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Basing on the Partners Healthcare System (PHS): Transforming Health Care Services Delivery Through Information Management Case by Richard M. Kesner from Ivey Publishing and Harvard Business Publishing Education: 

Essentially, as part of their overall initiative, Partners Healthcare System is attempting to achieve true enterprise-scale information management with appropriate integration, compatibility, synergy, etc. That is certainly a “statement of goodness, but… 

HOW should they achieve this “single” enterprise repository? In other words: does a single physical “data warehouse” make sense? Or should the enterprise repository alternatively, be logically viewed as a single environment, but actually, be made up of multiple components…and if so, which ones (Front-end data marts? Dependent data marts? or Something else?) Or: what about a data lake rather than an EDW? What about a combination of a data lake in front of/along with data marts? Or what 
about…well, you get the idea. There isn’t a single “always go-to, fits-every-situation” answer, unfortunately! 

Based on, AND WITH SIGNIFICANT EXPLICIT REFERENCES TO MATERIAL IN 
THE CASE IN YOUR NARRATIVE AND DRAWINGS (i.e., not just general 
reference material), define the overall component architecture and strategy 
for Partners Healthcare System for their enterprise data management. 

Your response must include the following, with significant detail; and it’s suggested 
that you liberally include diagrams and figures in your response: 

1) START WITH a single high-level, component-level diagrammatic picture of 
their data environment, showing relationships to/data flows from 
PARTNERS HEALTHCARE key source systems and applications as described 
in the case. Your diagram must clearly communicate the enterprise strategy 
that you recommend they pursue, e.g., a single EDW; or a single data lake; or 
the front-end data mart approach; or a combination of front-end data marts 
and a back-end data lake; or…. 

2) Describe the details of the platform(s) your group feels Partners Healthcare 
should use: relational databases for “traditional” data warehouse(s) and data

marts? A data lake comprised of a big data solution, such as Hadoop/HDFS, 
or either the AWS or Azure stack? Some combination? Justify your answer, 
using material from the case. You may also use Internet-sourced materials that are i) authoritative and 
ii) fully referenced and cited. 

3) What should Partners Healthcare System’s Master Data Management (MDM) 
strategy be? Your response must address: 
a. 10-15 major subject areas that should be included in their MDM 
strategy, and why each one is significant and should be included 
b. what major MDM/master data challenges Partners Healthcare will 
likely face 
c. how do you recommend MDM fit into their overall architecture: a 
separate system component? Part of the EDW/data lake/whatever? 

4) What should Partners Healthcare do for data governance to help increase the 
chances of success for the environment? Your response needs to be 
“sufficiently detailed” – i.e., much more than a generalized statement or a 
couple of paragraphs along the lines of “Partners Healthcare needs to handle 
MDM, data quality, and metadata for their data governance.” 

Again, to emphasize: your response needs to be “grounded in the realities” of the Partners Healthcare case (rather than a general discussion of enterprise data management as covered in the lecture and the readings), including what 
is written in the case about the key workflows, organizations, and roles, etc.

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