Data Exchange & Interoperability Standards
Standards and APIs that let systems talk.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Your teams adopt data exchange tools faster than the institution can govern them, and leadership cannot answer the board's simplest question: which decisions are now made by machines? Institutions that cannot show return eventually cut the capability — and then pay consultants to rebuild what they dismantled. This is where data exchange stops being a technology conversation and becomes an executive discipline you can defend in any boardroom.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Construct a data exchange roadmap sequenced by value, feasibility and risk.
- Read data exchange evidence — dashboards, model outputs, vendor claims — and know exactly what to trust.
- Evaluate where data exchange creates economic value across the organisation — and where it reliably does not.
- Govern data exchange models and data with controls that satisfy both boards and regulators.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Data Exchange Model Nobody Can Explain
A a multinational insurer deployed a data exchange model into daily operations. It performs — until a customer dispute, a journalist and the regulator arrive in the same week, and no one can reconstruct why the model decided what it decided.
Your decision: Pause the model pending an explainability rebuild, defend it as deployed, or restrict it to advisory use — each response signals something different to the regulator, the market and your own staff.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a pan-African retail bank suspects its data exchange spending is aimed at the wrong customers — and the intuition cannot yet be defended in the boardroom.
Dataset: Synthetic data exchange panel for a pan-African retail bank: the tables, formats and quality gaps your team would find on day one.
Your task: Structure the data, segment and score it, and translate the model into one operating decision about where the money should go.
A data exchange decision memo backed by an analysis you built and can defend.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build a twelve-month analytical and AI roadmap for your organisation: the value case, the data foundations, the governance, and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Executive Capability Model™
- • Value-versus-feasibility portfolio analysis
- • CRISP-DM analytical lifecycle
- • Model risk management principles (SR 11-7 adapted)
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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