Best Practices Make Perfect: Managing Information in the BfE™

Best Practices Make Perfect: Managing Information in the BfE^™

The Boundary-free Enterprise^™ (BfE) enables delivery and use of information within business processes on demand, anyplace, anytime – but not without significant challenges to managing information for use in business decisions. Each of these seven important BfE trends (see Figure 1) presents a significant challenge with a requirement for managing information at its core.

Figure 1: Seven Trends and Challenges of Being Boundary-free

Source: Saugatuck Technology Inc.

These 7 key trends set the stage for the urgency building around the need to manage information in a way that addresses the Boundary-free Enterprise.

While the Boundary-free Enterprise^™ liberates data resources for more effective and leveraged uses, ensuring its potential value will require meeting several significant challenges of the realigned work organization, and meeting those challenges will be more successful with the use of these five proven best practices:

Commit to (Cloud) Data Management
Manage the Organizational Issues
Partner with a Data Management Provider
Manage Both Control and Access
Approach Data Management as Value Creation

These five best practices lay a solid foundation for managing information in the Boundary-freeEnterprise^™ .

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Michael West is Vice President with Saugatuck Technology. His areas of research and consulting expertise include Cloud Computing, “Enterprise Ready” SaaS, ISVs in transition to SaaS, Cloud Development platforms, SaaS Integration, Social Computing platforms, and GRC. In 2000, Mr. West joined Saugatuck as an early co-founder after leaving Gartner, Inc., where he served as Vice President and Research Director. In 2004-5, Mr. West spent a year in Washington, D.C. at the Corporate Executive Board as Practice Manager of the Information Risk Executive Council, before returning to work at Saugatuck and re-focusing his interests on Software-as-a-Service and Cloud platforms. Mr. West has over twenty years experience in Information Technology at John Hancock, Fidelity Investments, Apple Computer, and Gartner. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and other industry events on a wide range of topics concerning technology and business strategy. He has written and presented research on information management, data administration, applications development, application integration, object technology, client/server architectures, graphical user interface and usability strategies, web site development and Internet applications, network computing, electronic commerce, portals, hubs and communities. Mr. West has an A.B. from Williams College , M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and M.B.A. from the Boston College Graduate School of Management. He has taught IT Strategies in M.B.A. programs at the Boston College Graduate School of Management and at the Haas School of the University of California at Berkeley.

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