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Webifying your business depends on an accurate enterprise data model, including your own data. Free your processes from departmental congestion |
Join the enterprise-wide data model Increasingly, your work may require
information from other parts of the enterprise.
Your job may soon involve: |
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Webifying your business depends on an accurate enterprise data model, including your own data. Business re-engineering attempts to design the business around specific goals, as if building a business itself were an engineering activity. Webifying, similarly, puts more of this info up on the Intranet and public Web site. Goals:
Free your processes from departmental congestion. Value streams (processes that contribute value to your company or the customer) have been largely unmanaged because the corporation was not organized around them, but around functions, in vertical power structures and turfs. Going through channels took forever. So the process leading up to a customer delivery has been tangled, inept, argued over, messed up.
Let small teams manage value streams, end to end.
Value-stream teams combine what used to be a variety of jobs from different departments.
Examples of value streams in Fortune 500 companies:
The Internet encourages small teams
When you are on one of these teams, you need a panoramic view of all the info objects, so you can:
As a member of a team responsible for communication, you need software that
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