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Private Knowledge Exchange (PKE)

Knowledge Management & Research Services

Utilizing effective collaboration methods to enable substantially lowering the participating members overall research and knowledge facilitation costs while increase innovation.

 

PKE is an Integration Consortium hosted peer-to-peer end-user network for qualified member organizations. Members of PKE are part of a trusted network which serves as a source for learning the unbiased and unvarnished truths about leading IT and business practices and pitfalls. The PKE will be unencumbered by consultants, vendors, or competitors. Our Private Knowledge Exchange, hosted by the PKE Director who is the communities dedicated resource, will comprise of related services and tools, including the PKE Knowledge Repository, PKE Peer Engagements, PKE Collaboration Center. The PKE is directed by its membership and will focus on the issues most relevant to our community members.

Founding Principles

  • Created by IC End-User Member Organizations to serve their information technology interests
  • Controlled by the PKE members
  • Independently managed by a PKE dedicated resource
  • Measured by the value created for corporations

Vision

  • Hundreds of corporations cooperating to develop a repository of shared integration and architecture; technologies, tools, applications, methodologies and best practices (I&A Assets) that members can download, modify and distribute
  • Members collaborate to develop new I&A Assets, share in development and maintenance of existing I&A Assets
  • Significantly increasing the business value or integration and architecture projects and activities and reducing the cost of I&A Assets 

What is the IC-PKE?

  1. The Repository
  2. PKE's unique model
  3. What can I expect from participation in the IC PKE?
  4. What is the ultimate goal of the IC PKE?
  5. Who is eligible to participate in the IC PKE?
  6. Who will have access to the research reports, surveys and knowledge sharing papers?
  7. Commitment to confidentiality

Click here for a detailed overview

 

"To collaborate with, and learn from, other integration practice leaders is the strongest value that I have received from the IC."

John Schmidt, Integration Consortium Chairman & SVP Architecture, Wells Fargo Bank 

You may have noticed when reviewing the value proposition of the Associate membership category (http://icmembership.icmembers.org/Associate) that there is a strong collaboration theme that runs through most of the benefits.  As highlighted by the recent book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, the use of mass collaboration in a business environment can be seen as an extension of the trend in outsourcing: externalize formerly internal business functions. The difference however is that instead of an organized business entity providing services, mass collaboration relies on free individual agents to come together and cooperate to solve problems.  In this new world, everything changes:

  • Participation: The line between media and reader is gone. Readers are publishers.
  • Openness: Votes, comments, content are freely accepted.
  • Trust: The most respected information sources are often transparent, public feedback from peers (like eBay ratings).
  • Conversation: Focused on a real-time dialog between passionate people.
  • Community: Formation of niche communities of the like-minded.
  • Connectedness: Trackbacks, comments, cross-linking, tagging ensure a virtual web of social media sites by topic.

To this end, the IC is energetically facilitating a series of private knowledge exchange conferences for Associate (end-user) members.  These are audio or webinar-based conferences that do not require travel – simply block off a few hours on your calendar as the events are scheduled.  This Wiki page will be updated regularly with information about upcoming meetings, so please check back on a periodic basis for updates.

2008 PKE Collaboration Topics

In preparation for the PKE launch in Q1, 2008, the purpose of this section is to collect suggestions from prospective PKE members for discussion or collaboration topics. Since this is a Wiki, you too can edit it. Just click on edit this page and add your comments to the topics below, or add brand new topics that are of interest to you. These will be discussed at the November 13th PKE conference call and will be continue to be refined through the end of the year.
 
ICC’s (Integration Competency Centers) appear to be a hot topic among a number of members. Sub-topics include:
  • What is the proper organizational/delivery model for Enterprise Integration?  Federated, Matrixed, Centralized, or some combination.
  • What is in the Scope of the Enterprise Integration Team?  The no brainers are: building interfaces, enhancing the ESB, etc.   What about Master Data Management or BPM - where do they fit? It is easy to talk about this at 40,000 feet but when it comes to delivery and defining roles and responsibilities there are a lot of questions. 
 
ESB’s and appliances – experiences and lessons learned.  Related questions are:
  • Is “buying” an integrated ESB a good idea – or should you assemble one from different vendor products and/or build your own?
  • Is an ESB solution for a large enterprise simply a scaled up version of what you would need in a medium-size enterprise – or is it fundamentally different?
 
Virtualization – leading edge or bleeding edge. Who is implementing this technology – and is it ready for core mission-critical applications.
 
Security continues to be a hot topic. A number of related questions are:
  • Who has really tackled the SOA security challenges in a practical way? Is WS-Security part of the solution?
  • What are effective techniques for securing information in a SaaS environment (like Salesforce.com)?
  • How can you implement effective information security for remote call-center agents (i.e. agents working out of their homes)? How do you control what information they can see, print, or copy to a USB device? How do you know someone isn’t looking over their shoulder?

Other topics??....

John Schmidt's thoughts on Wikinomics for Architecture and Integration:
A Knowledge Exchange Website For IC Associate Members

 

Revised on Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 02:48PM by John Schmidt

Sub-Topics

Title Summary
Members Only Private Knowledge Exchange Area Access to IC Associate (End User) Members Only
What is the IC-PKE? What is the IC-PKE?