CHAPTER 15
Building the Corporate Information Factory
Now that we have reviewed the components of the corporate information factory (CIF) and trade-offs associated with the variations, it is a good time to discuss building it. The information ecosystem that the CIF embodies is very much like any ecosystem in that:
It feeds from a common source of energy, in the form of data, provided by the application environment and external sources.
It transforms this data, through a series of complex processes, into food (that is, information) consumed by end users of the ecosystem.
It recycles end-user by-products to further enrich and strengthen the ecosystem.
Its development is evolutionary in nature.
In building the corporate information factory, the phrase “evolutionary in nature” should be foremost in our minds. This is not to say a strategic plan doesn’t exist. Arguably, even the ecosystem in which we live has a strategic plan that provides purpose. However, the CIF development should be driven by strategic actions aimed at tactical business needs crucial to the survival of the business ...
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