Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

RECENT EXPERIENCES AND USING THIS BOOK

Some contributions to the effort are from recent experiences that have produced pioneering achievements in enterprise integration included:

• Creating the SOE paradigm for the U.S. Department of Defense
• Developing data exchange capability leveraging international standards for neutral translation
• Developing the Integrated Data Strategy (IDS) for DOD with roots in ideas developed by aerospace contractors
• Harmonizing electronic business standards and practices in the aerospace and defense industry
• Pioneering uses of metadata
• Applying artificial intelligence methods to decision making
• Publishing case studies on business process redesign
• Creating algorithms to solve complex business problems
• Generating program coding to enable problem solving

This text employs comparisons and contrasts to differentiate the unique characteristics and value from the smart data paradigm and is written with the following ideas in mind:

• Directly addresses the responsibilities of Mr./Ms. Secretary and CEO
• Compares/contrasts enterprise performance optimization versus enterprise integration
• Makes data strategy an explicit element of enterprise performance optimization versus subordinating to infrastructure elements
• Compares/contrasts government enterprise versus private enterprise, and collaboration
• Compares smart data exchange versus standardization

This text makes smart data strategy explicit, understandable, and actionable to those entities capable of leading their ...