As I noted in my email to you all on 23 July, I have championed a team to analyze our Availability Forecasting and Resume compliance metrics, determine root causes of sub-optimal performance, and develop mitigation strategies.
Its focus on operationalizing insights distinguishes Information Builders from its competitors. It worked for performance management, says CEO Gerry Cohen, and it’s poised to give IBI an advantage in statistics and predictive analytics.
“…This is going to force you to think upstream in terms of the pre-field conversation.”
Jeff Jargon got caught upstream in a pre-field conversation once. Washed him halfway to Calgary. Hair stunk something fierce for days after. Now when he scratches his chin his left eye closes. No one should be forced into that.
Enabling interoperation between workflows, and between web services, continues to be a fundamental challenge. This paper proposes a new approach to interoperation based on hubs that are designed using “business artifacts”, a data-centric paradigm for workflow and business process specification. The artifact-centric interoperation hubs are focused primarily on facilitating communication and business-level synchronization between relatively autonomous stakeholders (and stakeholder organizations).
Ooooh, a data-centric paradigm! Of course! Hubs! Business artifacts! I can feel my business process specification crowning already!
“We can achieve savings and better performance by leveraging existing administrative and clinical infrastructures, and by using scalable standards that support direct connections as well as data interchange through clearinghouses, and that work in both centralized and federated RHIO models,” he said.
But what did he really say?
“[Agency’s] mission is to use expertise to provide innovative solutions for our customers in support of their missions and by so doing foster an effective, sustainable, and transparent government for the American people.”
Excerpt from internal company newsletter, by way of P.
Had to make the first post strong. I swear this is real.
