MIKE2.0

An email from the MIKE2.0 community hit my desk the other day with news that progress had been made on delivering business solutions for common problems in Information Management.

Don't know about MIKE2.0 yet?

MIKE2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment) is an Open Source methodology for Enterprise Information Management that provides a framework for Information Development. The MIKE2.0 Methodology is part of the overall Open Methodology Framework.

MIKE2.0 is an online community and the MIKE2.0 Methodology was initially created by a team from BearingPoint back in 2005 and released to the open source community in late 2006. I'm a member of the community because MIKE2.0 is a practical framework that I can apply in my work and there are a number of very smart people involved. It has saved me from reinventing the wheel a couple of times over the last year or so. I'm grateful to Rob Hillard of Deloitte for getting me interested in MIKE2.0.

I recommend joining if you are interested in IM.

The business solutions now include:

• Data Investigation and Re-Engineering
• Data Integration
• Data Modelling
• Metadata Management
• SAFE (Strategic Architecture for the Federated Enterprise) Architecture
• Information Governance

It was the last one that caught my eye as I am about to take on a role where governance is again vital to a successful outcome. I look forward to applying MIKE2.0 in the coming months.

A couple of years ago Sean McClowry (at the time an IM Solution Suite Architecture and Delivery Lead) at BearingPoint created a great presentation on the Information Governance Solution Offering and it is still an excellent overview. Sean is now a Senior Manager at BearingPoint and leader of the firm’s United Kingdom Information Management practice. Here is that presentation:

Download Sean's Mike20 Information Governance Overview Presentation

Comments

[Jahangir]

I am not sure a committee needs to be foermd to get what you are looking for. If the city could just move into this century, many of these items would be addressed! I would like to see a City Calendar that is complete, literally a one stop place where I can see everything going on in my city. One that has EVERYTHING from all the meetings and events AND from all the different organizations (Chamber, Clubs, Committees, etc ). Right now you have to go to so many places to learn about everything that is going on.The sad thing is I can do this right now today in Google Calendar, why can't the city?(can this be combined with my last item) I would like to see better details on the consent agenda topics. Nothing can really be understood from the vague information provided (most people like to prepare their questions as they may not fell comfortable standing up). Agenda information should be online, where links could be provided to better understand the topics. This would be a start.The current problem is that Council Members just traditionally vote yes/NO and we JOE PUBLIC have no clue on what! Is there currently a way to ask questions, even if after a topic is voted on? and or better yet a online chat method that people can ask/submit questions if they can not be present at the meetings?If all we can do is provide a Q&A section after each Council Meeting, that may give people an outlet to resolve issues? City Website that works! easy to search! updated easily by all staff! The current one lacks all of this! Can the city institute mailing lists? that people can sign up and manage themselves? If the city had a list of mailing lists people could sign up for to stay infoermd , this would be helpful. An example would be residential areas could be infoermd of scheduled road work or, everyone could be made aware of public events, etc . -Any information that we can put online that reflects how we are spending our money (that is understandable to the layman) is helpful. That is all I can think of right now, hopefully others will have more ideas.