Goal-oriented computing
by
Charlie Bess
One of ways that I believe information technology will be shifting is to become much more enterprise goal-oriented. Money spent on IT is strategic for the enterprise and there was an article in the November IEEE journal titled: Toward the Realization of Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management that backs up this perspective. It describes:
A goal-driven approach to business process composition uses generic, logic-based strategies, descriptions of Web services, and formalized business policies to generate business processes that satisfy the stated business goals. The approach is based on an enterprise physics metaphor, in which business objects are analogous to physical objects and policies are analogous to physical laws.
Much like the balanced scorecard approach is focused on visibility into the cause and effect of activities on initiatives to addressing goals and realize vision. This document takes a more cause and effect view of the use of services in addressing the goals of the enterprise.
As we have greater computational power available and better simulation, business rules and workflow, we can “show the applicability, value and feasibility of using computational logical in modern enterprise management as a next step in software development” , more closely linking business knowledge with the software engineer’s view.
The move to an enterprise goal oriented perspective will be a significant shift in the role of the CIO and perspective of IT within the enterprise.
