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Our Mission Statement
The Business Ecology Office Working Group will
define and promote industry consensus on the
attributes and roles most important for leading
a Business Ecology undertaking. It will further
help to better define the business benefits of
Business Ecology to Line of Business Executives
and CIOs. This is a business benefits and roles
focused working group - not a technology
architecture working group.
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.
As the world economy emerges from a painful
recession, organizations are confronted with
the challenge of retaining bottom-line
diligence, while pursuing market sustaining
and gaining innovation.
For many organizations, the answer lies in
harvesting savings and trapped value from
existing processes, resources and
capabilities. To accomplish this,
organizations are turning to Business Ecology.
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.
An important enabler of Business Ecology is
the use of technology beyond automation.
Business Ecology practitioners employ
technology to identify, measure, model and
drive business change.
Business Ecology adoption and execution
requires a cross functional team, comprised of
business and information technology
professionals. Key team capabilities include
business process thinking, business
performance measurement and analysis,
financial analysis, IT architecture, portfolio
management, service delivery and iterative
project management.
Successful Business Ecology initiatives
adopt the principles and values of Business
Technology. The team communicates with each
other, sponsors and constituents in a common,
business based language. Measurement is
defined and reported in business terms.
Funding and governance decisions and
mechanisms reflect a shared resource,
investment portfolio approach.
As Business Ecology teams progress,
technology and business savvy is exchanged,
fostering a greater understanding of each
other's challenges, skills and tools, which
leads to a break in the longstanding,
constraining, business and IT divide. A
byproduct of successful Business Ecology is
business-IT integration.
The Chief Information Officer (CIO), given
his/her unique position to view business
processes, resource consumption, and
technology portfolios across the organization,
most often champions Business Ecology adoption
and execution. C-level executives, including
the CEO, CFO and COO, sponsor Business Ecology
initiatives.
Business Ecology Initiative
Overview
OMG, via the Business Ecology Initiative,
leads the drive towards Business Ecology.
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.
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.
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.
Business Ecology Enablers
Techniques: LEAN, Six Sigma, BPM, Value
Chain Analysis, Actionable ArchitectureTM,
Business Technology, Agile, Modeling,
Simulation, Business Measurement and
Sustainability Analysis
Technology: SOA, BPM(S), Cloud Computing,
Event Processing, Analytics, Master Data
Management (MDM), and Open Standards
Measurement Models: Business Process
Maturity Model (BPMM), Sustainability
Assessment Model (SAM)
People: C-level executives, business and
information technology professionals, who
embrace the philosophy of Business Ecology
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