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Fluid ICT Strategies Enabled with Topic Maps
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Morpheus, Netherlands |
Description
This presentation discusses how subject-centric computing and semantics (through Topic Maps) can enable large-sized organizations to develop agile ICT strategies, which will save them money, shorten time-to-market, and improve innovative processes.
Most large organizations (profit and non-profit) still use static ICT strategies to shape their processes. As a consequence, they are slow to respond to changing economic, technological and social developments both within and outside the organization. This compromises competitiveness and innovation. The cause can be traced to the following aspects:
- Existing systems are structurally inert because of the relational model on which they are built;
- Suppliers charge high prices to change their systems from one static state to another;
- Changes to systems and processes have a long time-to-market;
- Knowledge-based problems are being solved using information-based principles and systems [data → information → knowledge]
Today’s economy requires organizations to be innovative and agile. Faced with new developments, an organization should be able to change its strategic direction quickly AND pursue this new direction with all its strength. This will only be possible if an organization has the ability to use more dynamic and agile strategies. Topic Maps offers the means to accomplish this.
This presentation outlines the advantages that Topic Maps offers for agile strategies, including subject-centric computing, flexible system integration, and the scalability and flexibility of knowledge hubs. After discussing each of these in turn, the presentation will bind them together and show how the resulting combination enables the creation of agile ICT strategies.
