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Business Ecology and The Business Ecology Initiative 2011: Abbie Lundberg Executive Director, BEI

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Business Ecology and The Business Ecology Initiative 2011

Abbie Lundberg Executive Director, BEI


Spring 2011

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What Is Business Ecology?

Business Ecology is a management imperative to optimize business operations and foster innovation. It views organizations as living organisms in which all aspects of management, operations and process interact and interrelate, and which operate within a dynamic business ecosystem.

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Business Ecology Goals & Practices

The goal of Business Ecology is to make business more responsive, effective, sustainable and secure. It does this through business-technology convergence, better decision making & design, business process excellence, removal of waste from business practices and technology portfolios, holistic risk management, and real-time insight and action.

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Business Ecology Initiative

The Business Ecology Initiative is a non-profit, memberled organization committed to breaking down silos and promoting Business Ecology practices both within organizations and among them. It provides thought leadership, education and advocacy and a platform for the development and sharing of case studies and practices among business and technology leaders.

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responsive, sustainable, secure

Draft framework

Focus

BEI Activities & Benefits


Activities include:
Member-driven communities of practice Working groups focused on key enablers Practice contributions and exchange Development of white papers and case studies Conferences, webinars, virtual meetings and online discussion Advocacy and industry outreach

Interested members gain exposure through... Presenting at meetings


Participating in webinars, podcasts and white papers Case study awards program Contributing to BEI Blog Participating in press announcements Displaying the Business Ecology logo on their web site

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Communities of Practice
Advocacy groups comprised of practitioners, service providers and technology vendors. Their goal is to promote the business value and enable the successful adoption of key business-technology strategies by the Global 1000, major government agencies and midmarket businesses. Operate in business-driven context:
- Optimization - Profitability - Innovation - Effectiveness -Agility - Assurance

Highlight real-world stories success, failure, lessons learned Embrace an influence the influencer model Expand Business Ecology Practice Collection

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Members, Audience
Two-pronged approach Top-down, focus on business goals and outcomes
CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs, VPs of various functions Champions, supporters, value drivers Conferences, blog posts, white papers... a C-level CoP?

Bottom-up from the enabling areas


Business analysts, BPM leaders, enterprise architects, etc. Making things work at design and execution level CoPs, conferences, white papers Business education in, BT action & communication out

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Partners & Sponsors


Same idea: top-down and bottom up
1. Top Down: Consulting and research companies, consortia, etc.
Big concepts: Business Excellence, Strategy, Governance, Innovation, Green IT, Extended Enterprise, etc.

2. Bottom Up: Technology vendors


Specific enablers: BPM, Event Processing, Cyber-security, Cloud, Collaboration, Social Computing

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Bridging the Gap from Technical to Business Standards

OMG is known for its leadership and excellence with technical standards. BEIs communities of people, agencies and companies carry on that tradition by driving common standardized means of education, definitions and goals for use by business and IT.

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