Public Sector Engagements
Since 2009 Castlebridge has worked behind the scenes with Public Sector clients on a range of high profile and challenging engagements. We are approved on Irish Public Sector procurement frameworks for a range of our advisory and human capability development services. In addition, we collaborate with partners on other frameworks to help provide deep subject matter expertise in the people, process, and regulatory aspects of data transformation and digital-enabled change.
Castlebridge focuses on targeted engagements with clients aimed at ensuring the scoping, planning, and oversight of larger engagements deliver value for money and meet real organisation and social needs rather than simply implementing new layers of technology.
We specialise in helping translate business objectives into data initiatives and mapping data challenges to organisation impacts to develop roadmaps for sustainable improvement.
Castlebridge we help clients through targeted engagements aimed at ensuring the scoping, planning, and oversight of larger engagements. This helps ensure value for money delivery of real change that supports organisation and societal needs.
We also provide deep subject matter expertise across a range of data disciplines from data quality to legal and regulatory issues related to data and its use, and from data governance to AI Literacy.
Our consultants specialise in helping translate business objectives into data initiatives and mapping data challenges to organisation impacts to develop roadmaps for sustainable improvement.
We seek to support clients by developing internal capabilities to deliver on day-to-day data objectives and enable effective decision intelligence.
If you are an Irish Public Sector organisation or Semi-State body who procure of central Office of Government Procurement Frameworks and who require assistance with any of the areas listed below, please get in touch. If you don’t see a particular need referenced, please get in touch and to discuss how Castlebridge might assist:
Castlebridge can assist organisations with development of a data strategy to align technical targets with organisation objectives that deliver data outcomes that benefit the client and their stakeholders.
We can also provide an objective independent review of current strategies and roadmaps to identify opportunities for improvement and refinement to support value delivery.
Organisations have also engaged us to advise on development of business-led roadmaps for digital change to ensure that the complex socio-technical nature of data-related and data-enabled change in organisations isn’t overlooked in a rush to deploy new technology.
Castlebridge has extensive experience in developing conceptual models and logical models for organisations from the business stakeholder perspective that defines, describes, and documents the key things organisations need to know about to achieve their objectives and how they link together.
Our expertise is not just in “traditional” relational or ‘tabular’ data environments but spans ‘data-in-document’ environments such as file shares, SharePoint, and other document and content management systems. We don’t implement the technology. We help organisations design how that technology will support efficiency in information search and retrieval, promote quality in data analysis and decision making, and reduce the environmental and time-cost impact of Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial content and data in your organisation.
Without robust data foundations, investment in AI, machine learning, and Generative AI will fail to deliver value while increasing risk.
Castlebridge can support organisations looking to understand the maturity of their data management, data governance, AI Governance, and Data Protection Governance practices.
Castlebridge’s methodologies combine decades of practical expertise with the latest in academic research and established maturity frameworks (e.g. IVI-ITCMF, DCAM, DAMA DMBOK) to provide a holistic and strategically aligned assessment of current state and actions required to improve maturity.
Castlebridge provides a range of data protection advisory services to clients across the Public Sector that address the practical implementation of effective data protection practices and processes to support the organisation and ensure risks to rights and freedoms of data subjects are appropriately managed and mitigated.
Our services include:
- Outsource Data Protection Officer
- Interim Data Protection Officer
- External Data Protection Advisory support
- Compliance reviews
- Data Protection Governance Maturity assessments
- Data Protection Impact Assessments
Effective and responsible governance of data and AI, and reliable execution of day to day processes to ensure trusted and trustworthy data, require the development of appropriate knowledge, skills, and human capabilities at different levels in the organisation.
Our services include:
- Developing Learning and Development Strategies to support data culture
- Designing and delivering training in:
- data management,
- data governance,
- AI Governance
- data-enabled decision making and management
- data quality management
- Metadata management
- Document and Content Management
- Responsible Generative AI for Public Bodies
- Data & AI strategy development
- DAMA DMBOK
- GDPR and other Data-related Regulation (e.g. Data Sharing & Governance Act, Data Governance Act, National Archives Act) from a data and records management perspective.