Strategic View
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The flexibility and integration
of reuse accelerate the evolution of legacy systems.
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Early delivery of component based
products will maximize user benefits.
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The Web Business Object Component
Architecture is a breakthrough strategy for information systems.
References
The harmonization of multiple
standardization efforts in widely disparate technologies to provide a standard
infrastructure for generation of business objects from design specifications
is a monumental task. The best technical resources from over 800 of the
leading software vendors and user organizations worldwide have moblized
to bring this effort to closure in a two year time frame. The object is:
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standard analysis and design language
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standard business specification language
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standard plug and play component environment
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standard meta-object facility for designs, applications,
and repositories
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standard interfaces for distributed object environments
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domain standards for common business objects
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tools to generate business systems from design
into heterogeneous distributed runtime environments
This will position the
software industry for the twenty-first century and launch the first global
effort to break down the barriers to implementing Moore’s Law for Software.
Breakthrough companies are aggressively committed
to:
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Advanced technology (working with vendors to
specify it, not just implementing what is available)
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Process innovation (not just process improvement)
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Macro reengineering
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Japanese style strategic planning
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Any organization or individual can only do two
or three things in 2-3 years
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These programs get top focus
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Customer focus
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Not equal to customer satisfaction!
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Customer transformation - leading to profitability,
expansion of market share, and reduction of disease
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Value creation
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90% of current programs in health care are subfunction
improvement and process improvement
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this is totally inappropriate for industry undergoing
fundamental change
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must focus on best practive/innovation and redefinition
of the playing field
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we cannot emphasis enough the customer transformation
necessary to integrate clinicals and financials and decision support through
data warehouse to:
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improve patient experience
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intervene in population to minimize impact of
disease and enhance profitability
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triage through strategies like Access Health
which keeps 80% of patients out of emergency room
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empower patients to take control of their own
health through multiple Internet strategies to reduce disease in the population
by 50% (and resulting reduction in clinic visits and hospital admissions)
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customers who do this will grow and be successful
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customers who do not do this will be acquired
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Creative HR roles
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Use innovative vision and organization strategies
to turn retention and recruiting problem into a major advantage over the
competition
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Alignment and integration
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the core of the key strategies defined above
© Jeff Sutherland 1995-98