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Subject: FW: Update on brochure and ASG Whitepaper
Brochure Outline
Why BCM - The Business Challenge to Business Interoperability
Because of pressure to yield short-term results, many integration efforts have focused on essential tactical objectives such as creating the plumbing to connect one application with another. Such efforts have often run into unexpected obstacles such as the resistance of key parties to adopt common modes of business interaction. The BCM approach aims to provide a framework that properly balances tactical programs with a broader business-centric view.
Obstacles to realizing business integration or interoperability
Business / technology alignment
Aligning priorities and attention among multiple business units
Need for visibility and ease of negotiation between business entities
Need for managing business/technology relationships among communities with differing business vocabularies. (need to gain semantic interoperability).
Lack of common business vocabulary
New technologies create the possibility of dramatic new ways of doing business. Those possibilities will not be realized without a deliberate process for connecting business and technology integration strategies among multiple business partners.
Implementing interoperability is all about making choice, some of which promote business alignment and some of which do not. Agility in the business depends on more than the pipes that connect systems. It depends on being able to make mutually beneficial choices with speed, certitude, and consistency.
Standards are a means not the end.
What is BCM
New technologies like web services and interoperability standards offer new promise to integrate information systems and business processes. BCM creates the means to align business and technical strategies within and across enterprises.
graphic showing intersection of
Business integration
Interoperable Technology
Information
Meta data mgt.
Knowledge mgt.
People
Change management
BCM builds on a long tradition of efforts to integrate business strategies and needs with management of the changing information technology infrastructure.
BCM layered architecture and common semantic foundation
Benefits of BCM
Speed of response to business change
Extended scope of business service implementation
Managed risk
Formal mechanism for communicating with collaboration partners
Reuse of knowledge, people, capital assets across business units and processes
Reduced cost through elimination of redundant assets, business processes
Visibility of business processes and associated assets
Integration of performance management views with change management and capital planning
Leverage knowledge
Reduced complexity
Prioritized investment in relation to business impact
Who should use BCM
Organizations which aim to implement a consistent enterprise architecture
Organizations that need a consistent means to form communities of interest in the extended enterprise
Organizations that aim to implement effective business integration strategies within or across enterprise boundaries.
How to use BCM
BCM puts a premium on ease of use and clarity of communication.
BCM is an evolving framework to which the communities of interest will contribute.
Refs to specs / other resources
ASG Whitepaper - Reducing Time to Market.pdf
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