StratML Tools, Applications & Services
Following is a tentative (draft) listing of tools, applications and services required to support the StratML standard, for discussion and editing by the StratML Committee.
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Authoring/Editing -- to create and edit StratML documents
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Crowdsourcing -- to collaboratively author and edit StratML documents
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Element Selection/UI Builders -- to enable users to select the elements they want to appear in their user interface (UI) to view, author and/or edit StratML files
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Adapters/Converters/Transformers -- to import and export StratML documents from databases and document/content/records management systems
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Query/Discovery Services -- to enable not only full-text but also faceted querying and discovery of discrete elements of StratML documents
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Discovery by Stakeholder names and/or descriptions
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Discovery by Goal & Objective names and/or descriptions
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Discovery by Value (principles) names and/or descriptions
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Review/Commenting/Input/Feedback -- pushed &/or pulled, linked to discrete elements within StratML files by their identifiers, and available for presentation in context of the text of the StratML documents themselves
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Presentation/Display -- in multiple ways, however the viewer wishes to view StratML documents, including subsets of their elements
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Analysis -- automated as well as human assisted
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Text Analysis -- to identify potential relationships between discrete elements within StratML files (not merely their full texts)
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Graphical Display -- to enable humans to more easily perceive and understand trends and relationships
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Relationship Identification & Verification & Description -- to enable human beings to see and verify candidate relationships identified by automated services and to draft concise narrative descriptions of such relationships as well as to nominate such relationships not previously identified. Such services must make it easy to cite the identifiers of the related elements.
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Strategic Alignment -- to enable users to link elements of StratML files to each other (e.g., performance indicators to goals/objectives in other plans)
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Values Alignment / Verification -- to enable values to be linked to goals, objectives and performance indicators and to enable users to provide input and feedback questioning or verifying the conformance of results with values (Accountability Services)
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Values Validation Services -- to analyze and report to stakeholders the degrees to which the goals, objectives and results of interest to them are consistent with their own values and validate the avowed values of the organizations establishing those goals and objectives
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Results Validation/Auditing Services -- to analyze and report to stakeholders the degrees to which the results of interest to them are being accurately measured and reported by the organizations establishing the relevant goals and objectives
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Deadline Reminders -- notification of impending end dates for performance indictors
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Mashups -- services to enable the combination of elements of different StratML documents for presentation as desired by users
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Identifier Verification, Linkage, and Correction -- to determine when identifiers have (inadvertantly or maliciously) been misused and to enable verification and activation of linkages based upon identifiers used to establish relationships
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Partnership Tools -- enable potential performance partners to easily identify each other and cross-reference their common and/or complementary objectives in each other's respective plans and reports (transformation of the advertising/marketing paradigm)
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Conference Agenda Services -- enable conference organizers to document session objectives, stakeholders of the performer (speaker/presenter) and beneficiary (attendee) types, and desired results while also enabling participants to link conference objective to objectives in their personal performance plans as well as to form virtual partnerships with other participants before, during, and after each event (thereby alleviating the risk of frivolous, unproductive gatherings)
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Value Chain Builders -- identification, documentation, and sequencing of inputs, input processing, outputs, and output processing required to achieved desired outcomes
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Input & Processing Discovery & Procurement -- outsourcing of inputs and processing outside the scope of the organization's core competencies
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Goal, Objective, Performance Indicator & Stakeholder Subscription Services -- automated notification of changes/updates to particular goals, objectives and/or performance indicators and/or of interest to particular stakeholder groups
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Document, Content, Records Management Services -- enabling the linkage (strategic alignment), discovery and retrieval of documents/content/records based upon the strategic goals and objectives they support and vice versa (top-down & bottom-up)
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Critical Mass, Rally, Bandwagon, Tipping Point Services -- to enable users to rally around, create networking "bandwagon" effects, establish critical mass and reach tipping points at which achievement of goals can be assured (pledges, contributions, referrals, challenges, etc.)
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Replication & Redundancy Services -- to enable replication of StratML data across multiple hosts for resiliancy, redundancy for speed and survivability, and for specialized query discovery, access, presentation and analyses by various communities of interest/practice (association/virtual organizational portals and services)
If you have proposed additions or clarifications to this listing, please send them to Owen.Ambur@verizon.net