Plan

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Plan Vision

• Robin Murray
• Director of Strategy Marketing

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Overview

• The Context of the plan
• Market Dynamics
• The evolving requirement
• Key principles
• Do no harm
• Add value
• Direction
• The Enterprise Product Architecture

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Market Dynamics

• Global market is steady-state
• Still significant opportunities in niches
• Many first second generation companies
• Owner-managed / first round VC backing
• Need to generate growth to realise economies of
  scale
• Organic growth
• New markets
• Acquisition essential

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Market Dynamics

• All companies with strategic vision
• are looking to acquire
• or looking to be acquired
• Significant further rationalisation will occur
• Our strategy is to participate and release value
  for our customers
• Enterprise Product Architecture is a key-enabler

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The evolving requirement

• Synthesize Specialize Mobilize
• See ariadne July 2006
• http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/murray/

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Service Evolution
System Revolution
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Library Systems
Workplace applications - points of need
Mobilize - to put into action
Mobilize
Specialize
Specialize - involve specific knowledge in order
to serve a particular purpose to apply or direct
to specific end or use.

• Local service
• Local added value
• Local context
• Local knowledge

Synthesize - to combine often diverse conceptions
into a coherent whole.
Synthesize
Atomic Library Services
Atomic non-Library Services
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Adding Value
Value - Created by broadening scope of
mobilization
Mobilize
Value - Created by generating tight, minimal
Interface definition - KEY SYNTHESIZED SERVICES
Synthesize
Value - Created by broadening scope of
synthesization
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Conclusions Requirements

• Service is evolutionary, required system support
  is not.
• ILS will remain critical, but will become a
  peripheral
• New model is about Synthesize, Specialize,
  Mobilize
• Platform requirement
• Enable libraries to synthesize new services that
  add value to their offering
• Enable network service providers to provide new
  synthesizable services.
• Ensure plug-and-play compatibility with network
  services.

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Key Principles
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Key Principles

• Do no harm
• Ensure current systems are supported and keep
  performing critical functions
• Evolution not revolution
• Add value by leveraging extended product suite
• Understand what we have the services landscape
• Evolve towards the Enterprise Product
  Architecture

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The Services Landscape
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Enterprise Product Architecture

• Work in progress

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Enterprise Product Architecture

• Unified high-level product vision
• Across OCLC PICA and OCLC
• Creates synergy between products
• Adds value to the overall library network
• Forms a basis for future work
• Enables synthesise, specialise, mobilise
• Current model
• Work in progress

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Local Nodes
Group Nodes

• Moving to the network
• The network is the combination of local, group
  and global nodes working together symbiotically.
• Functions should be performed at the appropriate
  node.
• Technology should be shared across nodes as
  deeply as possibe
• Our unique value is that we can create the
  network and all nodes participate in value
  creation

Global Node
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Summary

• Market disruption
• Vendor consolidation
• Requirements
• Synthesize, Specialize, Mobilize
• Response
• Be acquisitive
• Do no harm
• Vision
• Enterprise Product Architecture
• Holistic network view is our unique positioning

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Plan Vision

• Robin Murray
• Director of Strategy Marketing