DAMA - Philadelphia / Delaware Valley Chapter

Serving the greater Philadelphia area, southern New Jersey, and the State of Delaware

Program Schedule

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 - Towers Perrin

We hope you joined DAMA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley to hear

Bonnie O'Niel
Senior Technical Consultant - Project Performance Corporation

Wikipedia with an Attitude

Together with

Jerrold Rosenbaum
Principal - The Rose Tree Group

Information Flows

and

Jordan Corn
IT Architect - Rohm & Haas

Why Various Information Technologies Succeed ... and Others Fail

The Presenters:

Bonnie O'Neil is Senior Technical Consultant at Project Performance Corporation, and is an internationally recognized expert on business meta data, data architecture and business rules. She is a regular speaker at many conferences, and has also been a workshop leader at Meta Data/DAMA Conference, Oracle ODTUG, and the Business Rules Forum; she was the keynote speaker at an international conference on Data Quality in South Africa . She was a founding member of the Guide Business Rules Project (a standards group for business rules) and also the ODTUG Business Rules Summit. She has been involved in strategic data management projects in both Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, and her expertise includes specialized skills such as data quality, profiling, semantic/data integration and migration. She is the author of two database books including Oracle Data Warehousing Unleashed, as well as over 40 articles and technical white papers. She is a Certified CIF/GIF Architect by Bill Inmon, the Father of Data Warehousing, and is a certified trainer for Mr. Inmon. She is currently working on her third book, co-authored by Mr. Inmon, on Business Metadata.

Wikipedia with an Attitude: Collecting and Using Business Semantics

This presentation will expand on lessons learned from using Wikipedia in creative ways in a media company to both capture and deliver business semantics directly from business people. The presentation format will explore how you can take these concepts and turn them into useful solutions in your environment.

This presentation also explores some interesting twists in governance, using a new version (“Governance Lite”) to allow business people the maximum amount of flexibility to submit content but still have some sort of “authorized” content. In addition, we will discuss when governance is a good idea and when it should be relaxed a bit for maximum benefit to the organization.

The presentation shows how you can start a knowledge capture mechanism “on a shoestring” and slowly expand it to encompass more and more areas of usefulness to the business.

You will gain insights and practical tips on launching a corporate dictionary, including the following:

·         The role of governance, and how to set up some governance but still allow users flexibility of expression

·         How to use PR to get users involved

·         How to use Bonnie’s Law: "whatever is lying around" to get the job done

Dr. Rosenbaum received his doctorate from Columbia University and has been working in the computer field for over 30 years. He has extensive experience as a practitioner as well as a teacher in many areas of data architecture and enterprise architectural planning. Clients have included banking, insurance, utilities, manufacturing, aerospace, and communications industry as well as a number of federal government agencies. He is currently working for The Rose Tree Group, as a Principal Enterprise Architect.

Jerry has been active in DAMA for many years.

·         Founding Board member of Philadelphia/Delaware Valley

·         VP Programs, DAMA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley

·         President, DAMA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley

·         VP Programs, DAMA National Capital Region ( Washington , DC )

·         President, DAMA National Capital Region ( Washington , DC )

·         Program Chairman for DAMA-I Conference 2000 (Washington, DC)

Information Flows

In most situations in the real world, one cannot begin with a clean slate. One must modify and rearchitect the existing systems step by step. Information Flows are a key to understanding the organization of the current systems, and provides one with critical knowledge needed for any rearchitecture project. In this talk one will learn:

·         What are information flows?

·         Use of Information Flows to correctly document systems interactions

·         Approaches to organizing Information Flows

·         How to use Information Flows to reengineer systems and reduce the risk of projects.

Jordan Corn is a chemical engineer with over twenty years of process control and IT experience with Rohm and Haas Company, a specialty chemical manufacturer. He is currently part of their Corporate Information Technology Architecture and Planning group. He began his career in the mid-1980s as a plant production engineer where he was assigned to the then-groundbreaking project of automating a batch reactor. He found process control to be to his liking and spent the next decade in that field, holding several positions of increasing responsibility. In 1996, Jordan moved to an IT organization where he contributed to a reengineering effort. In that position he led an effort to implement a large database for the management of chemical plant design information. He was called back to process control for a two-year special assignment to manage the Y2K program for manufacturing systems worldwide. After Y2K slipped silently away, he built and managed a team responsible for knowledge management applications in the corporate Research and Engineering organizations. His work in this position led him to his current job in Architecture and Planning.

“Why Various Information Technologies Succeed ... and Others Fail”

We have all witnessed the failure of major technology initiatives. We've seen efforts launched with a great deal of fanfare, only to fade back into silence, leaving nary a trace. We have also all witnessed successful technologies, some of which take hold and flourish without any apparent effort or fanfare. What distinguishes the successes from the failures?

What can we learn? And, as owners of technologies, how can we increase our probability of successful deployment while minimizing the cost and probability of failure? This presentation will describe approaches that the author's research has shown will maximize acceptance of new technology. It also points out ways to identify technology initiatives that are likely to fail so that time can be better spent on potential winners.

Last revised: October 25, 2005

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