SCL Manifesto Stuff in databases

Structured

MS Office docs, PDFs

Unstructured Now, many only collaboration tools have

this data (although in database!)

Crowdsoucing
Help you understand key areas
e.g. e.g. experience of
Performancce Management
I'm not a database person, but have a feel
about what to do with the data
Coillaboration tools from major vendors
Blogs, wikis, etc.
Customers
Lifeblood of
organisations is Partners
SCL can help you take advantage Information about
of this wave, as well as existing 1. information Organisational performance etc.
6. best practice tools and techniques Tools for non-techies make manipulating
data & info an emerging possibility for all
This can also lead to lower costs &
SCL believes that this distinction is greater busienss agility - not held back by
breaking down infrastructure
But it must be managed!

Out of control
Waste of time
Might say undesirable things
In terms of sharing information
But still, there was something missing
Using tools effectively
'Mashup' tools, which allow combination Tools are now emerging that
of structured & unstructured information non-technical people can harness This was good because IT Dept controlled everything
to better share & consume Originally, mainframes were the
Sometimes in tool dominant computing platform This was bad because IT Dept controlled everything
5. information
Most often needs to be managed by people
Governance This was good because it allowed users
People change also needs to be to do more things
managed - culture & attitudes Success of PC was driven by use of
Narrative spreadsheets & later word processing This was bad because it allowed users to do more things
software
Knowledge Mgmt & re-use 2. Historically
Then harness, Databases have also come a long way
reuse & exploit it
WWW is all about collaboration & textual info
70% People Brings us to the present - i.e. the second
20% Process generation of the Web
Breakdown
10% Technology But how do you share & manage
exploding amounts of information
In the past, it was top-down control
4. You need it flowing as well as possible
Management was happy with this
Bill Gates popularised this term, I still feel it's valid
Bottom-up was seen as undesirable Want the understanding to go from bottom to top
Also need governance & oversight Need to collect the data in the first place
Data, Info & Knowledge Needs to be accurate
Capture & storage are not enough, you
3. Digital Nervous system need to be able to find things
The way applications talk with one
another has also come a long way
Internally
With Partners
Information supply chain
With wider stakeholders

SCL Narrative v0.1.mmap - 20/05/09 - Mindjet