Intelligent Healthcare Scenarios

In yesterday's post, we introduced a number of core capabilities that would facilitate deployment of enterprise-wide Intelligent Healthcare solutions. In today's post, we're looking at the core problems and specific scenarios under which those capabilities might be applied. Inter-operability is over-arching problem set behind most Healthcare related innovation There are a number of what might be considered ‘problems’ associated with...

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Intelligent Healthcare Capabilities

We introduced the concept of Intelligent Healthcare across several posts so far: What is Intelligent Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare: EHR Assumptions Intelligent Healthcare and Integration Federal Healthcare IT Initiatives The Intelligent Healthcare Manifesto Understanding Healthcare Inter-operability Over the next several months we're going to cover a number of related IH topics and we thought it would be worthwhile to capture some of what...

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Exploring Governance Process - part 2

Part two of the Exploring Governance post focuses on prototypical process steps. As noted in the previous post, this example relates to an enterprise-wide SOA governance initiative. Governance process can be applied to any number of areas or can be made available universally to all IT functions (e.g. Data, SOA, Security, SDLC/ALM). Each organization needs to determine for itself how lean or robust the process (and its steps) should be - those decisions...

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Exploring Governance Process - part 1

Today's post presents a Governance Case Study; in this case the introduction of SOA Governance within an enterprise environment.  The larger context for SOA Governance  Process Context The process depicted in the figure above represents one of several related processes. We've referred to this process as the SOA Service Approval and Governance process. This is used to help document to provide oversight for SOA service development...

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Why Quantum Computing is a Big Deal

2012 will likely be remembered for two key events in the history of Information Technology: Watson defeating the all-time champions on Jeopardy. The realization of multiple Quantum technologies after decades of predictions, theoretical musings and research... Of these two events, the latter is probably more profound as information technologies like those used in Watson will eventually harness foundational capabilities provided by quantum chips...

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Enterprise Integration Maturity Levels

In the previous posts, we have defined the key concepts of: Enterprise Transformation Enterprise Standardization SOA Design Principles Today we're going to explore a related topic - Enterprise Integration. Integration is involved to some extent in all of the above listed topics. We will first review some guiding principles for integration and then provide a high level descriptions for integration maturity levels.  Integration...

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Standardization versus Innovation

In yesterday's post, we discussed how the most common components of any Enterprise Transformation is usually a set of specific or tactical Standardization exercises. These exercises are meant to help: Improve inefficiencies Drive down costs Enhance current capabilities The third point here is key - most standardization efforts are directed at moving an organization towards commoditization of already well-understood, previously deployed capabilities....

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Understanding Enterprise Standardization

Just last week, we introduced the concept of Enterprise Transformation. Enterprise Standardization is often considered to be a part of Transformation, with special attention usually being given to data and shared service and infrastructure standardization. We can think of Standardization efforts as being the tactical elements of any given Strategy or (umbrella) Transformation initiative. Transformation is more EA focused,...

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Key SOA Design Principles

SOA primarily refers to a set of architectural principles. These principles represent a design continuum that links software development to Cloud deployment and capability exploitation. To support those principles a variety of standards and products have been developed to facilitate implementation and maintenance of SOA solutions. These standards include but are not limited to the following: SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol UDDI - Universal...

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How to Build a Cyber Security Consortium - part 1

by Stephen Lahanas Several years ago, I was involved in an effort to build a Cyber Security Consortium. This initiative was focused primarily on the Federal marketplace but was not in any way limited to government-related missions or solutions. Our effort was one of several that sprang up more or less at about the same time - most of these parallel efforts, like ours, were being driven from the Defense community. So, this introduction begs a couple...

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What is Enterprise Transformation?

by Stephen Lahanas At the highest level, “Enterprise Transformation” simply represents the set of initiatives necessary for an organization to adopt new technologies, better facilitate processes and enhance core capability applied to achieve mission objectives. The main differentiation between enterprise and specific or domain level transformations is the scope of the effort. Once an organization moves to this type of effort it typically involves: Enterprise-wide...

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