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April 29, 2005

A New World is Needed

It’s over; place a nail in the coffin of the traditional delivery of value within the Information Technology world. Success in IT is not about delivering products and service with the perfection of a symphony. We don’t have the time, money, or option to analyze the environment with the level of detail that would make an accountant cringe. Delivering value with speed is the only option for survival available. Delivering imperfect value with speed is the only option available. What is standing in our way? Hierarchal Management? Transaction Based Accounting? Outdated Education? The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but
how to get old ones out (Hock).

Posted by Todd at 2:37 PM

April 27, 2005

Metadata ROI

I have been quite for while since school started and soon wrapping up. Just too many things going on to keep up with it all. One question that continues to reappear over and over again is the element of Return on Investment for Metadata initiatives. I really hope the smart brains out there figure this out and all of us that are being forced to one-off the calculation of ROI. Maybe in the near future, we will see research in this area.

Posted by Todd at 5:17 PM

April 19, 2005

Online Article

What is the difference between a repository and registry? Is it as simple as saying a registry is record entry while a repository will contain other artifacts? Take a look at one possible solution to the Web Service Registry and the Repository.
The Repository vs. The Registry

Posted by Todd at 11:13 PM

April 13, 2005

Book Review

The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff, James Maxmin

Most of the time I pen a small paragraph describing the book but leave it up to you to discover the knowledge held within; not this time. The Support Economy is written by a brilliant Harvard Business School social psychologist with a savvy CEO of companies such as Laura Ashley and Volvo. The result is a book that may be the best on the market to actually explain the future of business. Many authors describe the future age as one of knowledge, conceptualization, or free agency. But, very few go into the level of details and provide a glimpse of the future. The Support Economy is not an easy read that you can sit by the beach and point read. The book describes the past, present, and future state of business and how that will influence how we move to the next phase of work. The authors call "distributed capitalism;" the need to move beyond the relentless optimization of transactions and towards the maximization of value in the context of people's lives. Provide “Deep” support that moves beyond products, services, and experiences. The death of the transaction is upon us and now we have a guide

Posted by Todd at 1:12 PM

Finally Usability

Do my eyes deceive me? In the April 2005 issue of DMReview is an interview with Jean Schauer. The title seems out of place for a data magazine: Clarity, Simplicity, and Usability. Finally, someone high up in an organization is willing to discuss usability as a critical aspect of software deployment. This is good news since my voice was giving out.

Posted by Todd at 12:59 PM

April 8, 2005

IEEE Conference

Reflecting on the IEEE Conference hosted by Nova Southeastern University, I wonder where the metadata presentations were located. Several of the presentations / papers discussed the problems that metadata address including data integration, knowledge representation, asset inventory, and many others. Actually, it was good to see many old friends, so I didn’t get to focus a ton of time on the expansion of knowledge. Maybe next time.

Posted by Todd at 11:05 PM

Just Complaining

Sitting in the airport in Ft. Lauderdale where they have open access to a wireless network and thinking about nice this open access information is. Wonder when Atlanta is going install free wireless access? Perhaps if we hadnt spent so much on the silly name change we could have it already.

Posted by Todd at 11:02 PM

April 5, 2005

TDAN Article

Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to discuss enterprise metadata to a wide variety of audiences and much of this conversation is captured in this Best Practices implementation framework. The model has evolved over the past few years as our program continues to do the same. Of course, this summary can only be a few pages long so the depth of the content here will be a tad shallow but you should be able to get the basics from the diagram and the description that follows.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ENTERPRISE METADATA FRAMEWORK

Posted by Todd at 2:56 AM