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Re: [ontology-summit] [Ontology Application Framework] Revised Strawman

To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion <ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Anders Tell <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:36:24 +0100
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On Mar 1, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Pavithra wrote:

One of the approaches that is in practice  is to identify the key members and stake holders, subject matter expertise of the organizations and request their time and commitment to help with the Ontology development and set the expectations right with them before developing the Ontology or EA.  One can get consensus on terminologies and concepts and make policies to have  the rest of the organization follows it through.   But it is difficult to facilitate such an influence if an enterprise architect is treated as a subcontractor or technical member of the team to make  that change at the top level.  Enterprise Architects and CIOs have to have access to Planners and Owners of the organization and key member to take that route and develop common terminologies and models and use polices to influence the rest of the organization. In other words, CIO organization has to be bestowed with that kind of power to make it happen.   It is a matter of organization change management.  



This is a interesting and valid account of large scale problems, but Im not sure about the part where the IT org / CIO organisation should be bestowed with powers. 

It is not clear that IT people are the best people to steer and guide "business" people in their work, id rather prefers that the business people learn the value of using ontologies in their work. Not an easy task!

Unfortunately it is rather common that "IT" push their view (such as EA) into "business", without them understanding the value and accepting the use. 

/anders w. tell

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