Be Informed’s staff regularly publish (or contribute to) papers about our solutions, platform, vision and approach.
Lever your logic
Why is it increasingly difficult to realize ambitious goals for more efficient operations, lower cost of ownership and greater agility in a sustainable way? Organizations are becoming more and more paralyzed by the fact that they don’t have sufficient grip on their logic. Thereby is logic by far the number one consumer of management attention and premier candidate for result leverage. Levering logic requires an enterprise platform that is driven by your business logic.
Towards webscale business processes
Networks are replacing hierarchical models in many aspects of our society, and the world of business processes has to adapt to this. Instead of designing consolidated flows that are believed to address the constraints of all parties involved, organizations will capture the individual constraints of all stakeholders, and business processes meeting these constraints are automatically inferred.
The result are flexible business processes that allow experts to shape their own work based on their experience and seamlessly adapt to the dynamic network they are performed in.
Towards
webscale business processes
Be Informed Semantic Modeling
When building a world-class business operation, organizations need to harness various types of complexity, imposed both from the outside world and within the organization. Not only large enterprises face these issues; smaller organizations face them, too.
Absolutely crucial in harnessing – and even embracing – the reality of complexity are clear definitions of all of the business activities and the information associated with them in terms of their effect, purpose and how they interact with other business activities.
The Be Informed Business Thesaurus
The Be Informed business process platform offers a game-changing approach to system development. It provides a modeling language that allows organizations to represent the knowledge that drives their processes. This results in transparent knowledge models that are directly executable. To leverage the benefits of this technology fully, implementations must keep a clear focus on matters of knowledge management. A central tool in this connection is the Be Informed business thesaurus. The present whitepaper describes how this tool can be used to optimally meet the needs of all stakeholders involved.
Also available at: taxonic.com
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Be Informed Business Thesaurus
The Taxonomy Revolution – Part III: Concept computing
The taxonomy revolution is taking something humans have been good at for millennia — creating classification systems and lay these down in knowledge models — to a new level.
In Part III of this series, the author delves into the newest trend in knowledge based system development: concept computing. As the number of large-scale implementations continues to grow, concept computing becomes difficult to ignore. The paper explains why it is in high demand, how it works, what its benefits are, and what it means for an organization to start with concept computing.
Also available at: taxonic.com
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Taxonomy Revolution – Part III: Concept computing
Be Informed and Microsoft Connected Government Framework
Be Informed delivers significant synergies through its tight integration with the Microsoft Connected Government Framework, both for public sector organizations and system integrators. Through this tight integration, breakthrough performance improvement can be achieved from multiple points of view: people, process and technology infrastructure.
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Informed and Microsoft Connected Government Framework
The Taxonomy Revolution – Part II: Findability
Semantics plays an increasingly important role in business processes and IT-systems. Techniques developed in the field of information retrieval and library science are applied to business modelling. Information retrieval, search technology and business process management converge, resulting in revolutionary change.
A series of whitepapers by Taxonic explores the backgrounds and the consequences of this change. Part II explains practical applications of these concepts in the domain of information retrieval and search.
Also available at: taxonic.com
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Taxonomy Revolution – Part II: Findability
The Taxonomy Revolution – Part I: Knowledge Models
Semantics plays an increasingly important role in business processes and IT-systems. Techniques developed in the field of information retrieval and library science are applied to business modelling. Information retrieval, search technology and business process management converge, resulting in revolutionary change.
A series of whitepapers by Taxonic explores the backgrounds and the consequences of this change. Part I addresses the basic concepts: knowledge models, taxonomies, ontologies.
Also available at: taxonic.com
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Taxonomy Revolution – Part I: Knowledge Models
Multi Permit Solution
Organizations in the public sector are currently being challenged by a number of trends such as individualization in society, increased interconnectivity between organizations, and budget cuts. As a result of these challenges, public sector organizations now need to do more with less.
Specifically for permit-issuing institutions, Be Informed has built a Multi Permit Solution that processes any permit, with all of its specific rules and regulations, in a single system.
Be Informed Introduction
Administrative processes are becoming increasingly knowledge-intensive. There are more external regulations to comply with, customers are more demanding, and the life span of strategies is decreasing, leading to a higher need for agility. Reducing that complexity is an impossibility. It is simply a given, imposed on us by the world around us. We need to find ways to embrace it, with technologies that are ready for these trends in business operations.
Aimed at business analysts, architects, policymakers and all other business process professionals, this white paper provides a practical description of how the Be Informed business process platform addresses the complexities of business operations.
Mastering disruption, Embracing complexity
Complexiteit kan niet gereduceerd worden, het is een natuurlijk verschijnsel. Dus in plaats van het te bevechten zouden organisaties het moeten omarmen. Dit is in het kort de visie van Be Informed’s view.
Voortbordurend op het Be Informed white paper “Embrace complexity, simplify your organization”, legt dit white paper uit hoe organisaties met drie belangrijke aspecten van complexiteit om kunnen gaan: dynamische, sociale en opkomende complexiteit. Het laat ook zien wat er gebeurt wanneer dit organisaties niet lukt.
Mastering disruption, Embracing complexity
Embrace complexity
If reality changes, the old “best practices” no longer hold true. The reality of business processes has shifted significantly. To deal with business megatrends such as mass customization and customer self-service, administrative processes have become more knowledge-intensive. New practices and technologies are needed to enable what analyst firm Forrester calls dynamic case management.
In this paper, we describe how to move from a process-based approach in operations to a more case-based focus. We also describe how to test how knowledge-intensive your business processes are or should be, and we explain the principles on which our business process platform is built.
The Policy Maker Workplace
Policy makers need an environment that brings together heterogeneous activities and functions in a meaningful actionable ensemble, organised around the case of a policy initiative and based on the making of decisions about a policy intention. That is the Policy Maker Workplace. The Policy Maker Workplace is developed by Be Informed as a platform that realises this synthesis. The Policy Maker Workplace is conceived for the public policy making process, but is also beneficial for supporting similar policies in the business and science domain.
Why complexity hurts
Public organizations worldwide face a number of challenges:
- Financial: budget cuts
- Globalization: growing influence of international regulatory agencies and cooperation
- Transparency/Compliance: provide proof of doing a proper job
- Citizen centric: cooperate with other parties and innovate the service organization to provide state-of-the-art service concepts to society, 24/7.
Together with the dynamics of an ever changing environment, and sometimes dramatic events, these issues create a complex world in which public organizations operate. Traditionally, they aim to reduce this complexity by simplifying reality. Obviously, complexity cannot be reduced. One cannot decide that globalization doesn’t take place, or that citizens just need to be patient for their permit or benefit. Organizations need to deal with these issues, with all of them.
Financial services institutions
Infrastructure and environment
Government Solutions
Be Informed is the result of many years of experience working for large government institutions. A common denominator for all these projects is the observation that government institutions, citizens and businesses are all confronted by large amounts of rules in day-to-day practice and in their work.