As I go from conference to conference speaking on the development of SOAs I’m always surprise to hear how much people don’t understand about this concept. Perhaps it is the marketing engines around the many vendors grabbing land in this space, or perhaps it’s how SOAs are explained in the main stream IT press. No matter how you got it wrong, it’s time to get it right.
Number One: Service-Oriented Architectures are a new concept.
Not really.
Five years ago, telecommunications companies operating in Florida faced a baffling array of taxes levied at the local level. Each municipality and local governmental entity had their own tax tables and methods of collection. “As the U.S.
I spoke with Brett Champlin recently and asked him about the upcoming BrainStorm Chicago Conference(s) and what is new for 2006.
There is really nothing wrong with the concept of Balanced Scorecard. The main problem is that it does not provide practical guidance for deployment, and some executives view it as a “quick fix” that can easily be installed in their organizations. Implementing a balanced metrics system is an evolutionary process, not a one-time task that can be quickly checked off as “completed”. If executives do not recognize this from the beginning and fail to commit to the long term, then the organization will realize disappointing results. However, some approaches (e.g. Rummler-Brache) allow for a rapid start to the metrics system evolution.
Here are some of the key issues I have seen over the past several years that can cause a Balanced Scorecard initiative to fail:
Poorly Defined Metrics
As more and more companies adopt Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) to automate key business processes, they are also seeing the value of enhancing this technology with Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS). When processes rely on complex business decisions, it makes more and more sense to use business rules to automate these decisions. Not only are business rules better for delivering clarity and agility in decision-making, the use of a BRMS allows rules to be shared across processes, across BPMSs and between a BPMS and other implementation platforms.
As we start planning our Service-Oriented Architectures, we are faced with a host of decisions such as: Where to start? How should the architecture be built? What gaps exist within the current architecture and which technologies should be used to complete these gaps? Who should be involved and what training should they undergo to be prepared? These are some of the questions that one may ask at the outset.
Organizations are all inundated with information about SOA and the steps required to create, design and implement their SOA.
Peter Fingar is an Executive Partner in the digital strategy firm, the Greystone Group. He is one of the industry’s noted experts on business process management and a practitioner with over 30 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of business and technology.
Peter Fingar is an Executive Partner in the digital strategy firm, the Greystone Group. He is one of the industry’s noted experts on business process management and a practitioner with over 30 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of business and technology. He is coauthor of the books: “The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing on Time”, just-released, and “Business Process Management: The Third Wave.”
Fingar began his presentation by pointing out that government and business are essentially similar in that they both:
Documenting business processes has become an important initiative for many Organizations. The advantages of identifying, understanding and evaluating key business processes to determine their effectiveness in meeting business objectives has been recognized for some time. There are many methodologies and tools available today to aid in capturing information about how a business performs its day-to-day activities in order to achieve desired efficiencies and cost reductions. A common approach integral to most methodologies is to develop an end-to-end process flow.
One way of building To Be processes is to start with the ideal. The ideal stretches the organization to achieve results and execute far beyond the norm.
A powerful example of working from the ideal can be witnessed at Toyota. This company has a vision of an organization, process, machine, or person that:
Is defect free,
Can be delivered one request at a time,
Can be supplied on demand in the version that is required,
Can be delivered immediately,
Can be produced without wasting any materials, labor, energy, or other resources, and
The KPI Rule Maturity Model (KPI RMM or RMM) has been a valuable management tool for organizations due to its simplicity and practicality. It provides a straight-forward, customizable business rule roadmap for organizations, charting success with a business rules...
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