A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Mohammed AlSudairi and TGK Vasista
services in an organisation is a specification of a workflow structure modeling or Business Process
Modeling, tasks, actions, flow of information artifacts and messages between the communicating
applications. To enable interoperability of possibly heterogeneous capabilities, knowledge and
capacities of each of the alliance partners, a common shareable knowledge model is used for
enriching the defined business process with semantic information (Bednar, Furdik, Lukac and Sabol
2009). For this purpose, a cloud can be constituted by a Common Cloud Management Platform
(CCMP) implementation and an arbitrary number of cloud services can be delivered and managed by
it (IBM CCRA Team 2011). Thus the Information Technology has the capability to produce plug and
play business process modules to achieve speed to market and strategic business agility-based
business objective where the business process components are made reusable and manageable
(Ross, Weill and Robertson 2006). Semantic extension makes it much more effective.
7.5 Abstractions (domain abstract consolidations and development abstract
specifications)
7.5.1 Reverse engineering
To create an innovation, a product might require undergoing reverse engineering process (Hentschel,
C. 2009). It can cause the following two types of innovation
� Incremental Innovation, and
� Radical Innovation.
Senior manager’s intentions and social context lead to the adoption of certain CASE tools, and
influence the conditions under which these tools are used such as planned impact or contingent
impact. Use of CASE tools in the context of reverse engineering can lead to certain changes to the
existing social context and may even bring about changes in manager’s strategy (Orlikowski 1991).
7.5.2 Model-driven engineering
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology which focuses on creating
models, or abstractions, closer to some particular domain concepts than algorithmic ones. It aims at
increasing productivity by maximizing compatibility among systems, simplifying the process of design,
and promoting communication among individuals and teams working on the system. One objective of
MDE is to apply model transformation and composition automatically via supporting tools. In this
context, "Models" are rigorously defined specifications. Some activities or steps of development
process can be automated or semi-automated (Chen 2009).
7.5.3 Enterprise modeling
Strategy: The basic strategy that drives the model and helps it offer solutions consists of four essential
steps:
� Look-in-the-box for internal service design,
� Look-out-of-the-box for environment design such as service distribution, interoperability,
integration and deployment,
� Look-above-the-box for best practices, governance, business imperatives and business
requirements, and
� Look-below-the-box for separation of concerns, granularity management, loose coupling
(Methodologies Inc.).
Architecture: Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is an open standard designed to facilitate rapid
application development in a platform independent manner. Models can be built at a high level of
abstraction by using MDA based tools, transformed into models and code targeting a specific platform
or domain. At the abstraction level of a platform-independent business component model, services
are visible only at a very high level. When the model is mapped to a particular platform, code will be
generated by dynamic invocation that makes calls to the native services of those platforms (Soley
2000).
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