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Our Mission
Our Challenges (why are we doing this)
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There is a
tremendous demand for eBusiness and eGovernment initiatives,
especially based on mobile computing, to support current and
next generation of enterprises.
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Unfortunately, many ICT (Information and Communication
Technology) projects fail (Standish Group Chaos reports
indicate failures in the 50% to 65% range).
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The failure
rates are higher (around 85%) in the financially strapped
underserved sector (developing countries and small to medium
enterprises).
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The core
problem is the re-invention of the wheel throughout the
Learn-Plan-Do-Check cycle and not in one activity.
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The needed
know-how exists but the challenge is: how to transfer the
know-how to all users rapidly, economically and globally.
Our Vision (how are we addressing the
challenges)
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 One
Stop Shop that supports the entire Learn-Plan-Do-Check cycle
instead of one narrow activity.
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Provide
comprehensive set of integrated tools consisting of business
patterns, business games, knowledge repositories, online
courses, and computer aided planning tools.
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Offer the
tools as a cloud service that customizes and transfers the
know-how to all users rapidly, economically and globally.
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Use a
computer aided consulting model to reduce time and cost by
70% (user does only 30% of the work, the system does the
rest).\
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Support IT
officials (ITOs) of the public and private sectors in making
crucial decisions in health, education, public safety,
public welfare, transportation, and other vital sectors.
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Quickly (in
less than an hour) produce detailed technical plans and
project management guidelines for more 100 mobile and
Internet-based services for 192 countries.
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Develop
solutions for a global marketplace with information about
190 countries and use this information to create highly
customized and detailed plans.
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Support
graduate education and training of ITOs in the public as
well as private sectors.
Our Services
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Computer
Aided Consulting: We are pioneering a new paradigm for
offering consulting services remotely by using innovative
computer aided consulting environments.
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Software
development: We operate a software development house that
develops software in the area of mobile/location based
services, B2B emarket and social networks.
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Research
and Training: We engage in industrial research and offer
corporate training in IT business, enterprise architectures
and integration using SOA, and wireless communications. We
use our computer aided tools to support our training
programs.
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Publications: We are publishing a series of books and
technical reports on different aspects of NGEs (ebusiness,
information security and mobile computing services).
Key Capabilities (what are the specific
tools)
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Patterns Repository for Industry Sectors (PARIS)
that capture the core knowledge needed by SPACE (almost 100
services in more than 10 sectors such as healthcare,
education, public safety, public welfare, transportation and
others).
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Games
and Simulations that support decisions in strategic
analysis, mobile services planning, interagency integrations
and health exchanges, application migration versus
integration tradeoffs, risks and failure management, and
quality assurance.
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Strategic Planning, Architecture, Controls, & Education
(SPACE): An intelligent decision support tool for
the IT officials in governments and the private sectors who
need to actually plan, architect, integrate, and manage the
needed IT initiatives quickly and effectively by using the
best practices.
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Planning, Integration, Security and Administration (PISA):
A detailed planning tool that can be used to quickly build
real life business scenarios and then guide the user through
IT planning, integration, security and administration tasks
by using best practices.
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Global Entrepreneurship Zone for All (GEZA): A
knowledge portal that provides a set of knowledge services
ranging from starting a business to international
partnership and outsourcing opportunities.
Our People
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Initiated
and led by a core team of six ICT professionals that include
software engineers, IT managers and researchers.
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We are
guided by a large community of IT leaders from corporations
such as IBM, Google, Bellcore, and World Wide IT Services
Alliance (WITSA); government officials from the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, Republic of Macedonia, Government of
Myanmar, Bahrain, and East African Community; and a large
number of NGOs (Non Government Organizations) from more than
36 countries.
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We enjoy
active participation of researchers and graduate students
from more than 15 universities from the United States,
Europe, Africa, Asia and the Far East.
How to Get Started:
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Please
visit the
SPACE site - it serves as a
gateway to all other tools. Click here (Figure1) to see how
it works.
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You may
visit the individual tools also, e.g.,
PISA,
GEZA and
SPACE.
Figure 1:Decision
Support Center – The Architectural View |
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