Aligning Business and IT with Metadata: The Financial Services WayFinancial services institutions like international banks and insurance companies frequently need to adapt to changes in their environments, yet manage risk and ensure regulatory compliance. The author Hans Wegener reveals how metadata can be used to achieve a successful and technological evolution. This unique approach is divided into three parts to:
Wegener firstly illustrates the peculiarities of both metadata management and the financial services industry. He combines both, puts them into context of use, and explains where and how this makes life difficult, as well as where and how value is created. This enables the reader to understand the impact of metadata management on his/her organization, its typical side effects, necessities, and benefits. The book then goes onto reveal how different crosscutting concerns managed in large financial corporations (change, risk, and compliance management) can revolutionize business by supporting them with metadata management. This provides a blueprint to be used in strategic planning. Finally, the mechanics of three important practical areas are discussed in-depth, namely managing evolution, quality, and sustainability. This provides helpful scripts for practitioners to be used in real-life. |
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... systematic change 37 What is 'meta'? What isn't? 47 3. Aligning Business and IT: the Role of Metadata, Strategy, and Architecture 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. Overview 49 Change, alignment, models, and metadata 50 Architecture: structure ...
... systematically, and a strong set of formalisms based on sound metadata management principles is needed to make sense out of this otherwise overwhelming endeavor. Also, the last few years have been marked by an FOREWORD xiii.
... systematic change management. The true challenge that anyone setting out on such a course must master is to choose the meaning of words wisely, bringing about the topic of alignment: ensuring that business and IT mean the same when they ...
... systematic corporate governance has become a necessity. In addition, worries about the stability of the global financial system caused national and international regulators to ponder further standardization, to reduce the risks inherent ...
... systematic fashion, while confining undesired side effects to areas that are of lesser importance or, better still, no concern at all. This is what I want to call systematic alignment, which means that: • Change is supported in a way ...
Contents
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Part II The Value Proposition | 71 |
Part III Practical Problems and their Resolution | 179 |
Bibliography | 267 |
Index | 271 |
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Aligning Business and IT with Metadata: The Financial Services Way Hans Wegener No preview available - 2007 |
Aligning Business and IT with Metadata: The Financial Services Way Hans Wegener No preview available - 2007 |