I nya numret av CIO Sweden (Oktober 2010) diskuterar jag och Håkan Enquist från handelshögskolan i Göteborg nya affärsmodeller för tjänstebaserade affärssystem. Artikeln är baserad på fallstudier från 18 organisationer och företag verksamma inom affärssystem på den svenska marknaden. Vi presenterar bland annat två mönster av affärsmodeller: niche och holistic. Artikeln baseras på resultat från Vinnova-projektet “Tjänstebaserade affärsmodeller för affärssystem”.
Today the education programme of Enterprise Systems are visiting IBM and the Innov8 workshop. 30+ students and a few teachers get hands-on experience with IBMs tools for business process management. We get the opportunity to simulate different business processes, such as traffic planning, customer service and supply chain. We also get the opportunity to test the IBM Websphere tool to design, implement and evaluate business processes in a SOA environment. Although the ES programme already have courses in BPM, the Innov8 workshop broadens our knowledge about BPM and BPM tools. It also deepens the relationship between IBM and DSV in the area of service science.
Idag hölls det första årsmötet för SISA – Svenska informationssytemsakademin. SISA är en förening för svenska universitet, högskolor och forskningsinstitutioner som arbetar med informationssystem. Informationssystem “är det vetenskapliga ämne som utvecklar kunskap om människors design och bruk av IT i individuella, organisatoriska och samhälleliga sammanhang. Inom denna ram finns vid svenska universitet och högskolor ett antal olika inriktningar.” Föreningen syftar till att samordna och uppmärksamma forskning och utbildning inom informationssystem.
Now the Master Programme in Health Informatics with Karolinska Institute has started.
40 students are enrolled. Half of the students have Technical / Computer science background,
and the other half have a Health care background. The students are physicians, nurses,
computer scientist, engineers of all types (several MSc, too).
The educational basic concept is that these professional roles to meet and learn from each other
within the framework of the master programme. The Students origins from all around the world:
Sweden,Bosnia, India, Iran, China, Pakistan and several others countries
Hello there!
Feeling very welcome at DSV, I have just entered the world of text annotation.
And what a wonderful world it is!
Drafted by Hercules, away from my job as a physician at the Blood Bank at Karolinska University Hospital where I was oscillating between the hospitals in Solna, Huddinge, Danderyd and SÖS, I now enjoy the more peaceful life in Kista. Here, there is time for academic discussions and afterthought. Pleasant!
I was recruited to the IT for Health-group as a domain specialist, being familiar with the language in patient health records since at least 25 years back. This coming semester I will work with Sumithra Velupillai och Maria Skeppstedt on negation and speculation detection projects.
I did my Ph.D. some 20 years ago in Medical Cellbiology at Karolinska Institutet. I always knew that I would return to the research world in one form or another, when the children grew old enough for me to focus on something else. But I had never dreamed about this nice collaboration across the sciences, a must to build meaningful tools for the health care workers.
I hope to contribute to computer science though I have not the least idea about how a computer functions.
Mia
The third HEXAnord meeting took place on Utö in the Stockholm archipelago last week and was hosted by the IT for Health group at DSV.
HEXAnord is a network with participants from the Nordic (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway) and Baltic countries (Estonia and Lithuania). In addition to SU/DSV, there were representatives from Göteborgs universitet and Linköpings universitet. The participants from DSV were Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Gunnar Nilsson, Sumithra Velupillai, Maria Skeppstedt, Helen Allvin, Mia Kvist and I.
This time around the meeting was designed as a PhD training course (3 ECTS) for the 14 PhD students, with seminar talks given on SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms), how to build essential tools and resources for the clinical domain, the nature and problems of nursing documentation, as well as on applying machine learning on clinical text to provide decision support. An assignment was given to the students by each of the lecturers, which are to be completed in groups across the universities.
The next meeting will be held in Trondheim, Norway at the beginning of next year.
After the Best paper award at the ER 2009 conference, we got invitation to write a journal article on Anchor Modeling. The title of the new article is “Anchor Modeling – Agile Information Modeling in Evolving Data Enviornmnets”. The authors are Lars Rönnbäck (Resight), Olle Regardt (Teracom), Maria Bergholtz (DSV), Paul Johannesson (DSV) and I. The article has now been accepted for publication in the journal Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE, Elsevier). A preprint of it can be found here.
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Abstract: Maintaining and evolving data warehouses is a complex, error prone, and time consuming activity. The main reason for this state of aairs is that the environment of a data warehouse is in constant change, while the
warehouse itself needs to provide a stable and consistent interface to information spanning extended periods
of time. In this article, we propose an agile information modeling technique, called Anchor Modeling, that
oers non-destructive extensibility mechanisms, thereby enabling robust and exible management of changes.
A key benet of Anchor Modeling is that changes in a data warehouse environment only require extensions,
not modications, to the data warehouse. Such changes, therefore, do not require immediate modications of
existing applications, since all previous versions of the database schema are available as subsets of the current
schema. Anchor Modeling decouples the evolution and application of a database, which when building a
data warehouse enables shrinking of the initial project scope. While data models were previously made
to capture every facet of a domain in a single phase of development, in Anchor Modeling fragments can
be iteratively modeled and applied. We provide a formal and technology independent denition of anchor
models and show how anchor models can be realized as relational databases together with examples of
schema evolution. We also investigate performance through a number of lab experiments, which indicate that
under certain conditions anchor databases perform substantially better than databases constructed using
traditional modeling techniques.
Keywords: Anchor Modeling, database modeling, normalization, 6NF, data warehousing, agile development,
temporal databases, table elimination
A paper evaluating the CM3 Emergency Problem Management process using a scenario-based methodology have been accepted to the The Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) 2010 in Boston.
WCRE is a conference focusing on reverse engineering and extracting information from software and systems. Using scenarios is an effective method to communicate process functionality which is useful in software reenginering.The paper describes software maintenance processes and IT management considerations in case of emergencies and organisational crisis situations caused by malfunctioning software.
The paper was a joint effort by Dr. Mira Kajko-Mattson, Emil Hammargren and me, Joakim Snygg.
As members of The Swedish Research School of Management and IT (MIT) Edephonce Nfuka and I have participated between 5 to 7th October 2010 to the MIT seminar at Uppsala University. Here we have presented a research paper named “The effect of critical success factors on IT governance performance in the public sector organizations from a developing country: A case of Tanzania”. The paper has well been received and the comments we have got from the participants to this seminar will due to an improvement of our paper that has been targeted to be submitted for publication to a journal. The MIT seminar from this year was also an opportunity to attend different paper presentations and make constructive comments to the authors for the improvement of their papers. Moreover in the MIT seminar from Uppsala University we have attended three interesting lectures done by Professor John Kimberly from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. For more information about The Swedish Research School of Management and IT (MIT) please access the following link: http://www.forskarskolan-mit.nu/.
The site shows some examples of how business models can be applied in health care. Each business model is described in terms of problems that they solve, existing examples of their use, and a short discussion of drawback and benefits with the model. Drawback and benefits of each model are described by linking to a set of values derived from existing quality frameworks.
– Take a look at http://dsv.su.se/vippa (site in swedish)
The site is developed as a part of the VIPPA project.
