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Open World Forum will take place in Paris on september 22. 2011.

The forum will host OpenCIO Summit, a conference for CIO by CIOs chaired by Alter Way.

A survey is launched to feed the OpenCio Summit with collective intelligence.

"Open Survey N°6 : 60 secondes to imagine the innovative digital enterprise"http://us8.open-creative-survey.eu.

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A case of Open Innovation : NGEN ISG

NGEN ISG, a stream of knowledge on dynamics between intellectual property (IP) policies, information technology (IT) usage and innovation

The impact of web 2.0, the latest wave of information technology, on enterprise has been widely and deeply studied. The emblematic finding is Enterprise 2.0, which was coined by Pr. Andrew McAfee in 2006.

In 2009, The Archilogy Institute , an open creative knowledge community addressing governance within the enterprises and the ecosystems, inherited a journey towards a next generation information technologies governance stream of practices which would be based on relationships instead of processes.

Through this legacy, The Archilogy Institute acquired the vision that intellectual property (IP) policies were critical to the use of IT.

Subsequently, The Archilogy Institute conducted preliminary assessments that would suggest that

• IP is currently shut in an ivory tower (or a bunker, depending to the viewpoint), the same way as information technologies (IT) were 40 years ago;
• IP management practices are fragmented, with an large gap between industrial IP applications and literature/artistic IP applications (in all sectors but entertainment);
• IP management policies have been oriented towards owning creation and invention (copyright, patent);
• new IP management policies oriented towards sharing creation and invention were emerging. 

As a matter of fact, development of IP should create in the coming years a sea change at least as dramatic as web 2.0 technologies of which impact encompasses not only enterprises, but also entire ecosystems and even society as a whole.

Under this context, The Archilogy Institute initiated a knowledge stream called NGEN ISG.

NGEN ISG should

• foster the emergence of IP management policies that would be oriented towards sharing creation and innovation;
• monitor the impact of these emerging policies on innovation within enterprises and ecosystems.

Tru Dô-Khac's cell contribution to the knowledge stream NGEN ISG

Based in Paris, Tru Dô-Khac's cell has been

• reviewing selected studies such as "The information: the next big challenge for business", a study conducted in 2009 by CIGREF and Capgemini Consulting with IMD;
• supporting since its inception the Information Systems Dynamics ( ISD), an international research programme initiated by CIGREF, in particular by attending and feeding back to the workshops and international conferences organized by ISD in 2009 and 2010; briefing papers under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France are available on request. 

At the second ISD conference, which took place at Paris on September 23. 2010, of which object was to explore how innovating information systems could transform the enterprise and where China was the guest country, the linkage between IP, IT and governance has indirectly emerged.

A hint for western companies from ISD 2010 conference : Creative Open Innovation The resurgence of China creates an unprecedented challenge to Western economies and especially France. With China benefiting from volumes larger by several orders of magnitude and from an innovation capacity expected to be heads on to U.S. in the next five years, what opportunities, threats, strategies for western businesses ? Unfortunately, for today's CEOs and managers, lessons learnt and management practices from the past 100 years would provide only limited foresight ; so ISD was wise to invite a college of promising students and tomorrow's managers to share their thinking and feeling with the audience. One of them expressed his admiration for the creators of Linux. Aligning this quotation with Pr. Guo Xunhua and Pr. Carl Dahlman's lectures on managerial behaviours within Chinese companies suggests that new forms of Open Innovation based on a balanced intellectual property (IP) (Opensource, Creative Commons,...) might be an answer for western companies. - a balanced IP which reflects a blended sharing and protecting attitude can bring together vast amounts of resources ; - these resources are efficient under a right governance regime, and it will take some time for organisations with a tradition of authoritarian management to learn how to institute a governance regime. This "new" form of Open Innovation could be called "Creative Open Innovation" [1].

Anchoring the creative and open knowledge cell into the ocean of knowledge

Debriefing papers available on request from Tru Dô-Khac 

May 7. 2009 ISD workshop in Paris : the paper compares two scenario exercises of future use respectively to patents (presented by Dr. Berthold Rutz, EPO) and information technologies (presented by Pr. Ian Miles, a FISTERA member) in order to inspire definition of scenarios on future use of information systems.

May 26. 2009 ISD workshop in Paris : the paper reports

• a breakdown structure of the immaterial capital (presented by Pr Bounfour, Chaire Européenne de Management de l’Immatériel et PESOR, Université Paris-Sud 11) to position the organisational capital and a definition of organisational capital (provided by Alexandre Guillard, CNP Assurances, direction de l’Innovation et de l’Organisation, Vice President Afope) to be possibly included into a glossary;
• Web 2.0 technologies (addressed by Thierry Nabeth, CALT, INSEAD) which might question the essence of organisation as it is in most enterprises;
• The “Knowledge Added Value” (created by Pr Tom Housel, Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey ) as a theory to underpin possible measurement of the organisational capital;
• The “value agreement” (“contrat de valeur” formulated by Yves Caseau, Directeur Général Adjoint and former CIO of Bouygues Telecom) as an instrument to formalize between a business unit and the IS department the deliverables of the organisational capital. 

On "Creative Open Innovation" The phrase "creative open innovation" can be found in "Response to the Public Consultation of Reviewing Community Innovation Policy", November, 16. 2009 by the European Interest Group on Creativity and Innovation (EICI). In this paper, the EICI arguments that The Commission of The European Communities fails in its Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, "Reviewing community innovation policy in a changing world" as of September 2. 2009, to recognize the right place of creativity in innovation. However, in its 20 pages paper, aside recommending that an "European online platform" should enable "exchange information on intellectual property", the EICI stayed silent on new practices of intellectual property usage such as Creative Commons... According to Henry Chesbrough (UC Berkeley), "Open Innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology " (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_innovation as of October 4, 2010). To our reading, this simply means joined innovation to gain technological momentum : a distribution licence may merit the label of Open Innovation as well as a crafting a research consortium. In the IT sector, " open " has been used in various contexts : the system Unix was " open ", IP networks were " open ", Firefox is " open "…

Contacting the creative and open knowledge cell nurturer

This page is a The Archilogy Institute cell nurtured by Tru Dô-Khac , an independent consultant in IT and innovation governance.

• Tru Dô-Khac is chairman of X-Propriété-Intellectuelle, "X-PI", (X-Intellectual-Property), a professional group within Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech alumni association and that addresses intellectual property (IP) issues. On X-PI agenda: IP market places, impact of renewed IP commons on businesses, dynamics between IP policies and IT use and governance. 
• Tru Dô-Khac's profile may be found at linkedin.

Tracing the life of this creative and open knowledge cell

• Published by Tru Dô-Khac, Paris, on May 14. 2010 on www.ngen-isg.com
• Revised on June 19. to follow The Archilogy Institute guidelines to nurture a cell (cell contact, cell usage, cell life trace)
• Revised on October 2. 2010 as a result of ISD 2010 conference. 
• Republished on this site on September 11, 2011

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" NGEN ISG, a knowledge stream on dynamics between IP policies, IT usage and innovation " by Tru Dô-Khac, Paris, France est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Paternité-Partage des Conditions Initiales à l'Identique 2.0 France.

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When CREATIVE COMMONS meets OPEN SOURCE

Tru Dô-Khac, a founding member of The Archilogy Institute, should speak at Open CIO Summit, Paris, on September 22. 2011., by an event organized by Alter Way within the Open World Forum.

Link to Open CIO Summit

(Archive) An introduction to IT governance regime (Fr : régime de gouvernance informatique)

IT governance regime is the key primitive of information technology governance (IT governance) frameworks such as NGEN ITG [3] which source their ontologies in political science. But as a matter of fact, most frameworks give precedence to processes instead of relationships [1].

What kind of animal is an "IT governance regime" ?
- First if all, we should assess that the locution "IT governance regime" is rarely used in IT management global literature. "IT governance model", “IT governance framework” (such as in “SOA governance framework”), or "IT governance archetype" (such as in Pr. Weill and Pr. Ross's framework on IT governance) are much more popular locutions. Of course, the locution can be found in some academical articles [2], but anecdotally, and the notion has not retained much attention both from academics and practitioners [3].

- Then we should recognize that the notion of regime is a basic notion in political sciences; the word of regimen has a similar meaning but is much less used;
- Finally, we should contemplate that regime is deeply rooted in French culture and history; “regime” is translated directly an immediately into French with “régime” whereas “regimen” gives “traitement”.

To feel the potential of regime from a methodology perspective, just look at the following locutions :
“SOA governance regime life cycle”,
“SOA governance framework life cycle”,
“SOA governance model life cycle”,
“SOA governance life cycle”...

As a matter of fact, an IT governance regime is precisely what the deliverable (output) of an IT governance project should be. Versus an IT governance regime, an IT governance model or an IT governance framework being intermediate deliverables with no direct and immediate value for IT stakeholders and shareholders.
Now, the answer to define an IT governance regime or a SOA governance regime is not obvious and governance of information technologies is still one of the most difficult challenges that an enterprise and its ecosystem face.

If we take an operational perspective, the answer to the question "What should deliver an IT governance project ?" is still not straight forwards.

Should it deliver IT decision rights, IT accountabilities, IT leadership, IT processes, IT structures, IT systems, IT strategies and IT policies or only part of this, let's say for example IT decision rights and IT accountabilities should we follow the stream of thought leadership leaded by Professor Peter Weill and Professor Jeanne Ross (MIT)?

If we take an epistemological perspective, we may identify three approaches to define an IT governance regime / regimen:
(1) call for a general definition of regime / regimen;
(2) formulate a definition that would fit specifically to IT management matters;
(3) find and observe implementations of IT governance regimes.

As for a call for a general definition, we might call for the help of political sciences. To define a governance regime, a mere dictionary would do and in the native language. Of course, definitions might vary and we will not find in a dictionary a specific definition for governance regime that would be immediately and naturally endorsed and used by IT professionals.
For a definition that would fit specifically to IT matters, we might call for definitions, select one of them and invite every IT professional to endorse, learn and use.

As for actual implementations, The Archilogy Institute , an open creative knowledge community addressing governance in enterprises and ecosystems, was able to find three animals in IT management answering to the call of “eService governance regime” where eService is a service enabled by an IT infrastructure :
- “Internet governance regime”
- “corporate telecoms governance regime”
- “SOA governance regime” or as The Open Group has named it “SOA governance regimen”.
Following these three paths all together should let emerge a general definition for IT governance regime / IT governance regimen from which Internet governance regime, corporate telecoms governance regime and SOA governance regime should be a direct and immediate application.

Notes
[1] Ryan R Peterson, “Integration strategies and tactics for information technology governance”, an article collected under the direction of Wim Van Grembergen in “Strategies for information technologies governance”, 2003. There is only one occurrence of “IT governance regime” which introduces a CIO interview.
[2] “Governance of outsourcing – IT governance domains and competencies”, ITGI, 2005. In the 23 pages document, “governance regime” is mentioned three times along with “governance environment” which appears twice.
[3]NGEN ITG : an original IT governance framework crafted for SOA governance and SAAS governance (sometimes called IT cloud governance).

About this page

The page is a creative knowledge cell :
1. it carries some creative work;
2. it is endorsed by its creator ;
3. the life of the page is traced;
4. the creative work is anchored in previous creative works;
5. the creative work is marked through Creative Commons license with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. This creative knowledge cell is a cell of The Archilogy Institute, an open creative knowledge community addressing governance within the enterprises and the ecosystems.

Tracing the life of this creative knowledge cell

Published by Tru Dô-Khac under Creative Commons Attribution France 2.0. July 2009, Paris.
Updated on November 15, 2009, Paris.
Updated on May 18. 2010 to introduce three entities : Internet governance regime, SOA governance regime and corporate telecoms governance regime.
Updated on June 27. 2010 to align to the suggested format of a cell of The Archilogy Institute.
Updated on March 5. 2011 : minor corrections which do not take into account current development on IT Regime Management (Regit)framework.

Transferred on this site on August 1. 2011 from www.regime-de-gouvernance-informatique.com

“Sharing, Remixing, Reusing, -Legally” the content of this creative knowledge cell

An introduction to IT governance regime by Tru Dô-Khac est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Paternité 2.0 France. “Share, Remix, Reuse, -Legally” is the motto of Creative Commons, a non profit organisation. It has been remixed under Creative Commons license Attribution 3.0 unported

Contacting the nurturer of this creative knowledge cell

The present cell of The Archilogy Institute cell is nurtured by Tru Dô-Khac, an independent consultant in IT and innovation governance. Tru Dô-Khac is the author of « L'externalisation des télécoms d'entreprise  - l'Opérateur Privé Virtuel» [Ang : Corporate Telecoms Outsourcing – The Virtual Private Operator ] published by Hermes Lavoisier 2005 (www.lavoisier.fr), ISBN 2-7462-1064-9, and subsequent articles published in selected magazines such as « Stratégie de sourcing – l'approche contractuelle » [Ang : « Sourcing strategy – a contract oriented approach » ], 2006, La Jaune et La Rouge, ISSN 0021-5554, Ecole Polytechnique alumni magazine.
The book reports in 220 pages the result of a creation and research work on three “governance regime patterns” for corporate telecoms. The subsequent articles build on this work and show how IT governance can (easily) leverage the creations and findings of this work.

Tru Dô-Khac 's profile may be found at linkedin.