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‘Pay as You Benefit’: A New Enterprise IT Strategy
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content: Using Incremental, Low-risk Semantic and Open World Approaches OK. So, you're looking at your garage ... or your bedroom closet ... or your office and its files. They are a mess, and you can't find anything and you can't stuff anything more into the nooks, cubbies, crannies or cabinets. What do you do? Well, when you finally get fed up and have a rainy day or some other excuse, you tackle the mess. Maybe you grab a big mug of coffee to prepare for the pending battle. Maybe you strip down to comfort clothes. Then, if you're like me, you begin to organize stuff into piles. Labeled piles and throwaway piles and any other piles that can provide a means to start bringing order to the chaos. In the semantic Web world, there is a phrase coined by Jim Hendler that captures this approach: A little semantics goes a long way [1]. A little semantics, just like your labeled piles, helps to bring order to information chaos. Mind you, this is not fancy or expensive stuff. In the case of my office, it is colored sheets of paper labeled with Magic Markers as "Taxes" or "Internal" or "Blog Posts" or whatever. Then, I begin sifting and distributing. In the case of the semantic world, these are classifying things into like categories and simply relating them to other categories with simple relationships, such as "is Part Of" or "is Narrower Than". Of course, I could have approached my mess in a different way. I could have hired an efficiency expert to come in, interview me and all of my employees and colleagues, gotten a written analysis and report, and then committed to a multi-week project to completely store and place every single last piece of paper in my office or organize every rake and set of abandoned golf clubs in my garage. When done, I would have shelled out much money and I suspect still not have been able to find anything. Sort of sounds like the traditional way IT does its business, doesn't it? To clean up their information messes, enterprises need to find a better strate…
encoded: Using Incremental, Low-risk Semantic and Open World Approaches OK. So, you’re looking at your garage … or your bedroom closet … or your office and its files. They are a mess, and you can’t find anything and you can’t stuff anything more into the nooks, cubbies, crannies or cabinets. What do you do? Well, when you finally get fed up and have a rainy day or some other excuse, you tackle the mess. Maybe you grab a big mug of coffee to prepare for the pending battle. Maybe you strip down to comfort clothes. Then, if you’re like me, you begin to organize stuff into piles. Labeled piles and throwaway piles and any other piles that can provide a means to start bringing order to the chaos. In the semantic Web world, there is a phrase coined by Jim Hendler that captures this approach: A little semantics goes a long way [1]. A little semantics, just like your labeled piles, helps to bring order to information chaos. Mind you, this is not fancy or expensive stuff. In the case of my office, it is colored sheets of paper labeled with Magic Markers as “Taxes” or “Internal” or “Blog Posts” or whatever. Then, I begin sifting and distributing. In the case of the semantic world, these are classifying things into like categories and simply relating them to other categories with simple relationships, such as “is Part Of” or “is Narrower Than”. Of course, I could have approached my mess in a different way. I could have hired an efficiency expert to come in, interview me and all of my employees and colleagues, gotten a written analysis and report, and then committed to a multi-week project to completely store and place every single last piece of paper in my office or organize every rake and set of abandoned golf clubs in my garage. When done, I would have shelled out much money and I suspect still not have been able to find anything. Sort of sounds like the traditional way IT does its business, doesn’t it? To clean up their information messes, enterprises need to find a better strategy. …
topic: Adaptive Innovation
topic: MIKE2.0
topic: Semantic Enterprise
has reply: comment-54909
links to: [1]
links to: SemTech
links to: [2]
links to: Moore's Law
links to: full size
links to: [3]
links to: [4]
links to: Y2K
links to: dot-com bubble
links to: SaaS
links to: [5]
links to: [6]
links to: [7]
links to: Why Isn't IT Spending Creating More Value?
links to: Whack-a-Mole
links to: proximate cause
links to: root cause
links to: closed world assumption
links to: [8]
links to: [9]
links to: negation as failure
links to: [10]
links to: open world assumption
links to: [11]
links to: Hobson's choices
links to: pay as you go
links to: [12]
links to: Structured Dynamics
links to: MIKE2.0
links to: [13]
links to: LittleSemanticsWeb.html
links to: SelectTable.asp
links to: Software Investment and Prices, by Type
links to: info comm tech.htm
links to: cusumano.pdf
links to: gartner-report-it-spending-2010
links to: attr 161183 115.pdf
links to: Edgar Codd's 12 rules
links to: Raymond Reiter
links to: memoriam-tplp.pdf
links to: The Open World Assumption: Elephant in the Room
links to: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/alon/files/pods06-keynote.ppt, 2006
links to: paygo.pdf
links to: TR-2007-30.pdf
links to: "MIKE2.0: Open Source Information Development in the Enterprise
links to: "Open SEAS: A Framework to Transition to a Semantic Enterprise

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