by Sean McClowry
April 2, 2009 at 9:51 am · Filed under
2.0 Design Thinking, Enterprise 2.0, FASTforward'09, FASTforward08, FISDEV, MIKE2.0
So I have been really bad about writing on the FastForward blog. While I’m as short on good excuses as posts, I have been doing some interesting things in this space that I think may be particularly valuable to this community. Some of the work has revolved around the openmethodology.org (MIKE2.0) and open-sustainability.org (FISDEV) initiatives that I mentioned in past articles.
I have also been working on omCollab, which is a platform that can be used for enterprise collaboration. The capabilities available in omCollab are driven for the business requirements to support BearingPoint’s IM Solution Suite initiative. omCollab is free and open source, so anyone can use it. We’re starting to get a nice development community going with key participants from the US, Europe and China. Feel free to use it and let us know what you think.
Part of the reason we made omCollab open source is to advance to goal of building an integrated content repository, where enterprises mashup to open content on the web and use it drive their strategy, design practices and community viewpoint of the best assets on the public web. The goal is to develop a collaborative, community-based standard. For the Enterprise Architects in the crowd, the closest approach from a content perspective is probably TOGAF although as far as I know no one has built an open and collaborative methodology or architecture framework in this fashion before. I believe the idea that had even greater relevance around sustainable development – which is why I started open-sustainability.org.
Although we’ve certainly had some good success around using the content from MIKE2.0, its has been tougher to build a collaborative community around the approach. Do you think it can work? Anything we should do differently?
by Sean McClowry
January 10, 2008 at 3:50 am · Filed under
Enterprise 2.0, FISDEV, Sustainable Development
One of the areas I have been working for some time is the idea of Sustainability 2.0: Applying Web/Enterprise 2.0, Information Management and Open Source concepts to Sustainable Development. I’ve recently launched www.open-sustainability.org, the primary goal of which is to provide an open and collaborative approach that organizations can apply to introduce better Sustainability practices into their existing corporate delivery practices. The approach is called FISDEV (Framework for Integrated Sustainable Development) and it is an open standard to which anyone can contribute.
FISDEV is in the very early stages of development and at this stage most of the content merely provides a general framework for delivering an open source methodology, as opposed to specific content for Sustainability. Now that the “infrastructural content” is in place, there is a framework for building functional content in the context of an open method. This includes mashing up content from sites with lots of great content around Sustainability (especially on the environmental side) like Appropedia. The approach is summarized in this overview on Sustainability 2.0.
FISDEV takes a systems and architectural-based approach to Sustainable Development. The goal is to facilitate the creation of a new competency for Sustainable Development that can be implemented in an organization, starting with a strategic approach.
It references content from the MIKE2.0 Methodology under the Creative Commons, which used these same techniques and technologies to create a new competency for Information Development.
I’m optimistic that collaboration, transparency and an evidence-based approach can help shape this needed standard and that Enterprise 2.0 and Open Source can make it easier to fill a major need in helping companies improve their practices around Sustainable Development.
