CASE STUDIES CAPGEMINI AND NETWORK RAIL

Empowering people through upskilling and creation of the right culture; how Network Rail is raising competence in information and data

Data is Network Rail’s fastest growing asset.

Our management decisions are being increasingly influenced by data. We collect petabytes of data every month from across our CCTV and operational estate. This volume is growing as programs like Intelligent Infrastructure roll out more of the asset condition solutions we need.

The systems and technology in those solutions will play a large part in the democratisation of our data… but we know that there is no meaningful change without people.

The Digital Knowledge, Information and Data (‘DKID’) competence framework has been developed to create a platform to show, build and share our data skills.

We have isolated critical competences like:

• Data and Information Fundamentals

• Analytics and Intelligence

• Data Modelling

• Lifecycle Assurance and QM

…and we have developed ‘routes to competence’ with training and Action Learning suggestions to guide people through their KID skills development.

Our Routes and Regions are starting to roll out the framework now, and we plan to share the framework with supply chain too.

We have also made it easy for anyone interested in KID to gain recognition from institutes like IET SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age), CILIP (Chartered Institute for librarians and Information Professionals, DAMA (Data Management) and CDBB (Centre for Digital Built Britain).

CONTACT:

Ben Blackwall, Senior Architect, Capgemini

Ben.blackwall@capgemini.com