Business Ecology Initiative Overview, March 2010

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©2010 Object Management Group

Business Ecology Initiative Overview: Business Ecology Initiative Overview: Optimization for InnovationOptimization for Innovation

Brenda M. Michelson

Principal Consultant, Elemental Links

March 23, 2010

Jacksonville, FL

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© 2010 Object Management Group

BEI Overview: Topics

1. What is Business Ecology?

2. What is the Business Ecology Initiative?– Scope and Program Activities

– Practice Area Communities

– OMG Technical Community Relationship

3. Summary

4. Questions?

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What is Business Ecology?What is Business Ecology?

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What is Business Ecology?

Business Ecology is a business-technology

imperative focused on

streamlining business processes,

removing waste from technology portfolios, and

adjusting resource consumption,

to optimize business operations and foster

business innovation.

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Business Ecology is a business-technology

imperative focused on

streamlining business processes,

removing waste from technology portfolios, and

adjusting resource consumption,

to optimize business operations and foster

business innovation.

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Business Ecology is not a one-time fix,

but rather a management philosophy concerned

with business vitality over time,

balancing current conditions, optimization and

innovation focus areas, resource allocations,

and longer-term business motivations,

capabilities and outcomes.

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Business Ecology is not a one-time fix,

but rather a management philosophy concerned

with business vitality over time,

balancing current conditions, optimization and

innovation focus areas, resource allocations,

and longer-term business motivations,

capabilities and outcomes.

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Business Ecology Context: Adopter View

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Business-IT Integration

Business-IT Integration is the organizational model

for business and information technology

convergence.

This model promotes collaborative strategy,

planning, architecture and execution;

shared decision-making,

business-tech savvy personnel

and service delivery at the point of value

generation.

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Business-IT Integration

Business-IT Integration is the organizational model

for business and information technology

convergence.

This model promotes collaborative strategy,

planning, architecture and execution;

shared decision-making,

business-tech savvy personnel

and service delivery at the point of value

generation.

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Actionable ArchitectureTM

Actionable ArchitectureTM brings transparent

business methodology to the definition and

delivery of common IT infrastructure, platforms

and services.

Emphasized business attributes include quality,

efficiency, compliance, agility, value,

effectiveness, ease of use, sustainability and

business goal traceability.

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Actionable ArchitectureTM

Actionable ArchitectureTM brings transparent

business methodology to the definition and

delivery of common IT infrastructure, platforms

and services.

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What is the Business Ecology Initiative?What is the Business Ecology Initiative?

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What is the Business Ecology Initiative?

The Business Ecology Initiative provides

education, advocacy and member programs

to enable organizations

to achieve Business Ecology success,

employ Actionable ArchitectureTM,

and carve a path to business-IT integration.

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What is the Business Ecology Initiative?

The Business Ecology Initiative provides

education, advocacy and member programs

to enable organizations

to achieve Business Ecology success,

employ Actionable ArchitectureTM,

and carve a path to business-IT integration.

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Business Ecology Context: BEI Program View

• Business Ecology Advocacy

• Member Community

• Conferences & Symposiums

• Education & Certification

• Case Study Program

• Industry Outreach

BEI Program Activities:BEI Program Activities:

• Practice Area Communities

• Practice Collection

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Practice Area CommunitiesPractice Area Communities

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Practice Area Communities

Advocacy groups comprised of practitioners, service providers and technology vendors, dedicated to promoting the business value, and enabling the successful adoption, of specific, key business-technology strategies, by the Global 1000, major government

agencies and midmarket businesses.

• Operate in business-driven context:

• Highlight real-world stories – success, failure, lessons learned • Embrace an ‘influence the influencer’ model

• Expand Business Ecology Practice Collection

- Optimization - Innovation - Agility

- Profitability - Effectiveness - Assurance

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BPM / SOA CommunityBPM / SOA Community

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SOA Consortium

In 2007, Service Oriented Architecture was a fringe methodology that only a few organizations were doing with any great success, rather than an accepted part of an

overall business strategy.

Three years later, corporations large and small use the principles of SOA to enhance their overall business and technology strategies.

SOA Consortium Accomplishments:SOA Consortium Accomplishments:

• Case Study Awards 2008 & 2009 • Executive Summit Program

• SOA-C Meetings & Symposiums • SOA-C @ Industry Events

• SOA-C Podcast Collection • SOA-C Community Insights

• EA2010 Presentations & Papers • Vibrant Member Community

• Business-Driven SOA Awareness • Major Analyst Firm Partnerships

• SOA-C in Industry Press, Blogs • Founding SOA Zombie

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BEI Practice Area Communities

• Business-Driven Advocacy

• Member Community

• Conferences & Symposiums

• Best Practice Exchange

• Case Study Program

• Working Groups

Practice Area Community Activities:Practice Area Community Activities:

• Industry Outreach

• Virtual Showcases

• BE Practice Contribution

BPM/SOACoP

BPM/SOACoP

EP-CoPEP-CoP CyberSecurity CoP

CyberSecurity CoP

GCIOGCIO

BPM/SOACoP

BPM/SOACoP

Federated BE Practice Collection

Federated BE Practice Collection

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BPM / SOA: Connected for Optimization

BPM and SOA Community Merger Premises:BPM and SOA Community Merger Premises:

• A well-implemented Service Oriented Architecture leads to streamlined technology portfolios, improved resource sharing, better defined business capabilities, and ease of capability introduction or change.

• A well-implemented Business Process Management initiative leads to greater business agility, faster productivity and improved customer interactions for all stakeholders.

• The combined use of Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management results in an optimized business environment that is change-friendly, and poised for business innovation.

• Business and information technology professionals must collaborate to realize the highest yielding benefits of Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture.

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BPM / SOA: Connected for Optimization

BPM and SOA Community Aims:BPM and SOA Community Aims:

• Shift the conversation from competing strategies to combined business value (business optimization)

• Provide education on business analysis, process design, governance, performance measurement and implementation techniques

• Raise the Business IQ of information technology professionals and Tech-Savvy of business professionals to realize the greatest business value from BPM, SOA and business-technology

• Showcase success stories, benefit realization, best practices and lessons learned

• Create a vibrant practitioner community for the exchange of insights

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BPM / SOA Working Group Areas

EA2010EA2010

BPM/SOAIntegrationBPM/SOAIntegration

EP-CoPEP-CoP CyberSecurity CoP

CyberSecurity CoP

GCIOGCIO

BE for BPM/SOA

BE for BPM/SOA

Case Study Contest

Case Study Contest

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Additional Practice Area CommunitiesAdditional Practice Area Communities

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Event Processing: Profit from Continuous Intelligence

Event Processing Community Aims:Event Processing Community Aims:

• Raise the profile of event processing, from its current niche status, to a well-recognized and adopted business technique for adding real-time visibility and responsiveness to increase business agility, innovation and profitability

• Shift conversation from underlying technology (event processing) to business value (continuous analytics and intelligence)

• Provide education on business design, information analysis and management techniques to harness the power of event processing

• Create a vibrant practitioner community for the exchange of insights on use cases, challenges and techniques, which will assist in value attainment, and spur broader, industry wide event processing adoption.

Promote the value and adoption of Event Processing as a means for organizations to increase business agility, innovation and

profitability via continuous analytics and intelligence.

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Cyber Security

Raise awareness on Cyber Security threats, risks and protections to

enable leaders, professionals and consumers to make intelligent

trade-offs with respect to information sharing, business interactions,

technology adoption, policymaking and threat mitigation.

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Green CIO: Sustainable Processes, Optimized Business.

Green CIO Community Aims:Green CIO Community Aims:

• Extend the Green IT conversation beyond the data center, and beyond power consumption to “Greening the Business and Bottom-line using Business-Technology”

• Raise executive awareness on the value of business-technology approaches in an organization’s sustainability toolkit

• Provide education on sustainability assessment and improvement techniques based on business process and information analysis

• Create a vibrant practitioner community for the exchange of insights on use cases, challenges and techniques that optimize businesses via sustainable processes

Promote the value of business-technology as a means to discover and eliminate wasteful business actions and resource

consumption, resulting in smarter, sustainable processes and business optimization.

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OMG Technical Community RelationshipOMG Technical Community Relationship

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OMG Community Interactions

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Business Ecology: OMG Standards* Consumer

BMM

BPMM

* Sampling of Standards for Illustrative Purposes

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Summary

1. Business Ecology is business-technology imperative focused on

optimization for innovation

2. The Business Ecology Initiative enables Business Ecology

success, Actionable ArchitectureTM and Business-IT Integration

3. The BEI has four practice area communities: BPM / SOA, EP,

Cyber Security and GCIO

4. Each CoP contributes to the Business Ecology Practice Collection

5. Practice area communities may consume OMG standards

6. Practice area communities may share topical interests with OMG

special interest group

7. Business Ecology, the BEI and the practice area communities

contribute to business vitality over time

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Thank You!Thank You!

For more information:

Website: http://business-ecology.org

Blog: http://blog.business-ecology.org

Brenda M. Michelson

[email protected]