Title: Moving from a System Based to a Knowledge Based Organisation'
1Moving from a System Based to a Knowledge Based
Organisation.
Peter Trevelyan
2Characteristics 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.
3Characteristics 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.
4Characteristics 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.
5Characteristics of a Knowledge Based Organisation
(2)
- Maximises the investment in heritage systems.
- Allows the organisation to achieve efficiencies
in processing.
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7Viewing 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.
8Attributes.
- 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
9Business Transformation.
Viewing the Met Office as an e-business
Common Framework
10Knowledge 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
11Knowledge Cells.
K-Cell
A
User Community
K-Cell
E
User Community 3
User Community 2
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14Knowledge Management
One stop-shop!
Multi-Source Met Web Portal
Imagery, Maps
Model/Tailored Products
Historical Data
Text (Obs, Bulletins, etc.)
Knowledge Mart