Moving from a System Based to a Knowledge Based Organisation'

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Moving from a System Based to a Knowledge Based
Organisation.
Peter Trevelyan
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Characteristics of a System Based Organisation(1).

• Awareness of data construct.
• Difficulties in sharing added value data.
• Separate and distinct data streams.
• Different Desk Top Interfaces to the information.
• Difficulty in adding new types of data.

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Characteristics of a System Based Organisation (2)

• High maintenance costs due to lack of
  integration.
• Difficult to scale and extend.
• Programmers work only on specific systems.

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Characteristics of a Knowledge Based Organisation
(1)

• One or at most two interfaces to a whole range of
  data.
• Easy to add and integrate new data types.
• Easy to integrate new functions.
• Brings customers, suppliers and users into a
  common framework.

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Characteristics of a Knowledge Based Organisation
(2)

• Maximises the investment in heritage systems.
• Allows the organisation to achieve efficiencies
  in processing.

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Viewing the Met Office as an e-business

• Use common architectural patterns.
• Utilize best commercial practices and subject
  matter expertise.
• SCOTS-based Architecture
• Commercially-accepted Open Standards proven
  interoperability
• Robust support for Technology Insertion
• Knowledge vs. Information
• Knowledge organises Information to provide
  awareness.
• Captures, analyzes, formalizes relationships
  among disparate resources.

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Attributes.

• System is responsive
• Scales to meet changes in mission support for
  both strategic and tactical
• Personalized experience for users and suppliers
• Cost-effective over time
• Return on Investment i.e., early and sustained
  improvements/results
• Modularity supports change w/o impact to overall
  Architecture

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Business Transformation.
Viewing the Met Office as an e-business
Common Framework
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Knowledge Cells.
Communities of Interest (COI) people, data, and
processes focused on specific mission Knowledge-Ce
ll (K-Cell) technology framework for
integrating COIs Supports topical or geospatial
AOI Supports dynamic nature of the
organisation K-Cells collaborate Knowledge-Store
(K-Store) contains metadata of mission and
business-oriented knowledge for a
COI Knowledge-Network (K-Net) hierarchical
collection of K-Cells
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Knowledge Cells.
K-Cell
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User Community
K-Cell
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User Community 3
User Community 2
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Knowledge Management
One stop-shop!
Multi-Source Met Web Portal
Imagery, Maps
Model/Tailored Products
Historical Data
Text (Obs, Bulletins, etc.)
Knowledge Mart