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Re: [tgf] Complementary standards for multi-stakeholders service delivery and citizen engagement

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Re: [tgf] Complementary standards for multi-stakeholders service delivery and citizen engagement
John,

      

      What you suggested sounds good to me as a first step.  For sure we
      are (especially myself is) in a big learning curve and my
      communication/inquiries by no means  was asking the TC to act on
      anything specific but to share information and open up the
      dialogues/debates on how best to realize this noble vision which I
      have deep respect for.  

      

      My guts feeling is that the transformational process will happen
      more fruitfully with combined top-down and bottom-up activities.
      Government did not ask for social media yet its technology changed
      the way how  opinions and actions are shaped today.  Equally, 
      there are so many sustainable development activities, co-creation
      movements happening all over the world and the primary goals of
      the government and public services are to support and to serve the
      citizens for a better future. So how do we connect the dots and
      connecting the mind sets are important in this journey.  

      

      This can't be a linear approach, perhaps setting up some sort of
      information sharing and feedback loop will help TC maintain the
      stewardship of the core concept of TGF, at the same time provide
      guidance needed to help others to progress the work.  The
      consulting engagement that Neil proposed can be one angle, suggest
      we should also look at the engagement required for NGO, research
      activities as well.  

      

      Regards,

      Jenny

      

       

      On 10/5/2012 1:33 AM, John Borras wrote:

    

    
      
      
      
      

        
Jenny

        
Having looked
            at this more closely I think it is something that we need to
            take step by step as we are still on a big learning curve. 
            As a first step a simple reference in the Policy Product
            Matrix is the quick and easy way of highlighting the OMG
            work and we have already set a precedent for that by quoting
            the OMG’s Business Process Model as a technique to consider
            using.   We need to be careful about making firm
            endorsements and recommendations until we see evidence of
            their successful usage but we can at this stage make a
            reference to them so people can consider using the
            techniques.  And just to clarify the Matrix is not an
            inventory of what policies are used today.  It is a
            checklist of all the things that need to be considered when
            putting together a transformation programme.  So we expect
            managers to use the Matrix, identify what they need to do
            and use any references to tools and techniques in their
            implementation plans.

        
I’ve said
            before we have a longer term intention to issue detailed
            guidance on implementation including developing the Roadmap
            etc but for now our priority is to assist with current
            implementations and learn the lessons from them before going
            into detailed print.

        
With all that
            in mind I suggest we add a reference to SBVR in the Matrix
            as per the attached.  We cannot add references to VDML and
            CMMN yet as they are still work in progress and the specs
            are not  publically available.  We can add them later to the
            appropriate cells when OMG publishes the specs.

        
If you are
            content with this approach I’ll put this proposed change on
            the agenda for approval at the next TC meeting.

        

          
Regards

          
John

        

        
 

        

          

            
From: Jenny Huang
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                Sent: 03 October 2012 01:26

                To: John Borras

                Cc: 'TGF TC List'

                Subject: Re: [tgf] Complementary standards for
                multi-stakeholders service delivery and citizen
                engagement

          

        

        
 

        

          
hi John,

            

            I forgot about the Policy Product Matrix element in the TGF,
            the intent for me to bring up those  items were indeed not
            to add additional standards to the TGF primer itself  but to
            provide tools to help realize the vision.   i.e.
            Transformation is going to be a long running process with
            many stakeholders involved, the more tools to help produce
            standardized artifacts along the way the better it is to
            repeat the processes and to retain/share knowledge as we
            progress.

            

            A quick click thru at the policy product wiki, it  appears
            the primary focus is to  inventory what policies are used
            today.  It is a necessary step but not sure how exactly the
            analysis tools will fit in there, thou. 

            

            re  you other question about whether there is any similar
            work exist,  I suspect there is none. The work is done in
            the OMG Business Model Integration task force, so the nature
            of the group is to harmonize of what exist in the industry
            and fill n the gaps of what needs to be developed.  The BMI
            folks are more looking for TGF as a use case to support
            broader adoption of OMG standards, I think it is an
            opportunity to consider additional resources that can help
            the realization of TGF, especially OMG has strong US gov.
            presence.

            

            perhaps we can help to focus the discussion of this thread
            by figuring out how do we populate this use case page https://wiki.oasis-open.org/tgf/Use%20Cases  
            i.e. how one would use the current TGF artifacts and how one
            would go about the analysis process to develop the business
            case for transformation and  to develop the roadmap for
            transformation with multi-stakeholders involvement etc.

            

            Jenny

            

            On 10/1/2012 6:18 AM, John Borras wrote:

        

        
          
Jenny

          
I must
              confess I haven’t done a deep dive into each of these
              standards yet but at first glance they seem more like a
              set of tools and techniques that can assist in the
              deployment of a TGF programme.  To that end it would seem
              more of a case of referencing them in the Policy Product
              Matrix and maybe the TGF Primer rather than adding to or
              creating new TGF Patterns.  But before we go down that
              route we should be certain that there are no similar or
              competing standards that we should give due consideration
              to.  Do you have any knowledge or views on that please?

          
Views on this
              from other TC colleagues would be appreciated please.

          

            
John

          

          
 

          

            

              
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                  Subject: [tgf] Complementary standards for
                  multi-stakeholders service delivery and citizen
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Dear
            all,

          
On
            the last TC call, I mentioned that there are a few standards
            from the Object Management Group might be useful to
            facilitate the analysis and simulation of the complex
            problem space that the TGF is addressing.   

          
I’m
            providing a short intro of those items here, will be happy
            to arrange a few conference calls/webinars with domain
            experts from the OMG to explore the topics further with the
            TC. 

          
SBVR:
               Semantic of Business Vocabularies and Business Rules

          
            
It is intended
                to capture the semantics of business concepts and
                relationships with support for natural-language-like
              declarative _expression_ of
                business rules of a complex entity, such as a business. 
                It includes the ability to express the concepts and
                rules in multiple vocabularies (i.e., multiple
                languages). This is an existing spec. a high
              level descriptions can be found at this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics_of_Business_Vocabulary_and_Business_Rules

          
          
            
Relevance to TGF: We need to examine
              whether the current TGF Pattern Language spec. can be
              enhanced with SBVR.  This will allow instance of
              requirements/concepts to be translated and managed at
              regional level at the same time keeping the coherence at
              the state/government level using modeling and relationship
              techniques.

          
          
            
The specification is available here: http://www.omg.org/spec/SBVR/1.0/index.htm

          
          

              VDML: Value Delivery Modeling Language

          
            
This is a work in progress in the OMG
              (potential adoption in early 2013).  The heart of this
              work is to support Business Design and Innovation
              Management driven by the creation and exchange of value. 
              It fills the gap between business models (e.g.,
              Osterwalder) and business process management. 

            
Relevance to TGF: This systematic
              modeling approach is essential for virtualized service
              delivery and franchising business model with citizen
              engagement as envisioned by the TGF

            
This blog post on “Outside-in Business
              Architecture” provides some insights to the work http://fredacummins.blogspot.com/2012/01/outside-in-business-architecture-with.html

          
          

              CMMN: Case Management Model and Notation

          
            
This is a work in progress in the OMG
              (potential adoption in early 2013).  The specification
              defines a language for modeling of elements of a type of
              case (e.g., tasks, stages, events, constraints,…) to
              support adaptive planning, decision-making, collaboration
              and coordination on individual cases.

            
Relevance to TGF: From a whole
              government perspective, services to citizens and other
              stakeholders often require ad-hoc coordination and
              collaboration that crosses organizational boundaries and
              engages shared services.   For every transformational
              project that is going to carry out in a “virtual
              organization” fashion, similar governance and organization
              process/structures are required  as one would expect from
              a single enterprise environment.

            
This type of work environment is already seen
              for projects like “Healthy cities” yet lack of a structure
              for effective community engagement. Here is another blog
              post that provides a high level view: http://fredacummins.blogspot.com/2011/07/knowledge-worker-cockpit.html

          
          

            Please note all of the above specifications are geared for
            business/strategy thinkers to clearly model the desired
            business/benefits first so that appropriate technology and
            who they should be sourced from can be assessed in a much
            more holistic manner in order to meet the business/citizen
            benefits that are envisioned. 

          
I’m
            interested to get your feedback on my assessment of their
            relevance to the TGF effort.

          
Regards,

            Jenny

          
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