Standardization works with a limited, and rational, scope

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MSDN Blog Postings » Standardization works with a limited, and rational, scope — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:35:16 GMT

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Gabriel Morgan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:42:09 GMT

Hi Nick - Do you also envision that there would be some sort of standard business processes defined for the Supporting Business Capabilities?

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NickMalik — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:20:46 GMT

Hi Gabriel,

Short answer: yes. The supporting business capabilities do not provide differentiation to the business. The businesses need to perform the related processes, but there is little or no incentive to perform them in anything but the most efficient manner possible.

Therefore, creating consensus on a core set of processes should be quite a bit easier than you would find in the industry-specific space, yet industry groups like TMForum are able to do it. I don't see any reason that supporting business processes couldn't be mapped and consolodated.

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Loraine Lawson — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:05:33 GMT

I'm not clear on why you're omitting hosted technologies in this, since may of these solutions now do address LOB functions. I wonder if there will be a need for standards here, as in applications, given that more companies are facing integration issues with hosted software solutions. (I get the hosted collaboration email example, but what about hosted CRM?)

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Loraine Lawson — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:37:06 GMT

Never mind. I went all the way back and read. I see where you're going. You might consider a mention of the hosted discussion, though, for those of us who can't get to every post.

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NickMalik — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:11:00 GMT

sorry about that Loraine. You made a good point. I should link to prior posts.

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Erik Johnson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:32:54 GMT

Hey Nick, I wrote something last year (http://appside.blogspot.com/2007/09/corporationlets.html) that relates a bit to your point. You can skip to the 4th paragraph.

re: Standardization works with a limited, and rational, scope

NickMalik — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:32:50 GMT

Hi Erik,

I do believe I have part of that answer that you described.

Thanks for the link.

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