A Business Architecture framework for industrialisation and standardisation in a modern National Statistical Institute

In recent years, many European and international statistical organisations have initiated developments to restructure their statistical production process, with the aim of improving its efficiency and the ability to produce outputs that better satisfy user needs. In this framework, the main topic of this study is to describe the path towards the design of a Business Architecture (BA) suitable to meet the specific requisites of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat). Like other National Statistical Institutes, for several years Istat has been engaged in a series of complex challenges, dictated on the one hand by the requirement to increase the production of statistical information and its quality, on the other hand by the need to reduce both the total cost for its production and the respondent burden, so as to work in a more efficient and optimised way. In order to find proper solutions and increase the overall efficiency, since 2010 Istat has launched a Programme called Stat2015, that is focused on the modernisation of the whole statistical production procedure.