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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By : Bill Aronson
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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By: Bill Aronson

Overview of this book

Open Text ProVision® (formerly known as Metastorm ProVision®) is an Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution allowing for effective planning and decision making throughout the enterprise. It enables an organization to have a central repository of information about the business, reducing organizational risks and better optimizing business resources. Implemented well, it enables better and more actionable decisions exactly when you need them.This book combines theory and practice to provide a step- by- step guide to building a successful customer- centric model of your business. The approach is simple and down to earth, and along the way, with various real-world examples, you will learn how to make a business case, use a framework, and adopt a methodology with Open Text ProVision®. This book draws on the experience of ProVision® experts around the world. By combining theory with practice from the field you can avoid common mistakes and develop a successful customer centric strategy for implementing ProVision®. Each chapter builds on the previous one to give you the confidence to implement a central repository, dealing with both the technical and human issues that you might face.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Open Text Metastorm ProVision® 6.2 Strategy Implementation
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Distinguishing between change and transformation


Transformation is not just another word for change. It is profoundly different.

Any organization is a system. As the leading proponent of Appreciative Inquiry, David Cooperrider, says:

The task of organizational leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make a system's weaknesses irrelevant.

The characteristics of change are better, faster, and cheaper. The issue is defined. The outputs are known. Change works inside the system. Transformation works on the system. Change always has unintended consequences; if you change one part of the system, it has impacts over the horizon. By contrast, transformation releases energy and invokes surprise.

  • The first quality of transformation is its emotional color. It always results in surprise. If you are not surprised, then what you are experiencing is not a transformation but just a change. Change has the power to surprise, but only once. Next time you will be bored. Therefore, keep in...