Business Ecology Initiative Overview, March 2010

Business Ecology Initiative Overview: Optimization for Innovation Brenda M. Michelson Principal Consultant, Elemental Links March 23, 2010 Jacksonville, FL

BEI Overview: Topics
What is Business Ecology?
What is the Business Ecology Initiative?
Scope and Program Activities
Practice Area Communities
OMG Technical Community Relationship
Summary
Questions?

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.

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.

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.

Business Ecology Context: Adopter View

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.

Actionable Architecture TM
Actionable Architecture TM 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.

Actionable Architecture TM
Actionable Architecture TM brings transparent business methodology to the definition and delivery of common IT infrastructure, platforms and services .

The Business Ecology Initiative provides
education, advocacy and member programs
to enable organizations
to achieve Business Ecology success,
employ Actionable Architecture TM ,
and carve a path to business-IT integration.

Business Ecology Context: BEI Program View
Business Ecology Advocacy
Member Community
Conferences & Symposiums
Education & Certification
Case Study Program
Industry Outreach
BEI Program Activities:
Practice Collection

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

BPM / SOA Community

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:
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

BEI Practice Area Communities
Business-Driven Advocacy
Member Community
Conferences & Symposiums
Best Practice Exchange
Case Study Program
Working Groups
Practice Area Community Activities:
Industry Outreach
Virtual Showcases
BE Practice Contribution
BPM/SOA CoP EP-CoP CyberSecurity CoP GCIO BPM/SOA CoP Federated BE Practice Collection

BPM / SOA: Connected for Optimization
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.

BPM / SOA: Connected for Optimization
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

BPM / SOA Working Group Areas EA2010 BPM/SOA Integration EP-CoP CyberSecurity CoP GCIO BE for BPM/SOA Case Study Contest

Additional Practice Area Communities

Event Processing: Profit from Continuous Intelligence
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.

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.

Green CIO: Sustainable Processes, Optimized Business.
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.

OMG Technical Community Relationship

OMG Community Interactions

Business Ecology: OMG Standards * Consumer BMM BPMM * Sampling of Standards for Illustrative Purposes

Summary
Business Ecology is business-technology imperative focused on optimization for innovation
The Business Ecology Initiative enables Business Ecology success, Actionable Architecture TM and Business-IT Integration
The BEI has four practice area communities: BPM / SOA, EP, Cyber Security and GCIO
Each CoP contributes to the Business Ecology Practice Collection
Practice area communities may consume OMG standards
Practice area communities may share topical interests with OMG special interest group
Business Ecology, the BEI and the practice area communities contribute to business vitality over time

Thank You! For more information: Website: http://business-ecology.org Blog: http://blog.business-ecology.org Brenda M. Michelson [email_address]

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