Avoiding premature standardisation: balancing innovation and conformity

Overview

• Currently work in a niche area:

  • ontologies for operational system semantic interoperability – integration

  • think integrating enterprise SAP and Maximo operationally
    have been working here for a while (since late 1980s)

  • not many (any?) other people working here

• Believe that:

  • there are opportunities for architectural (radical and disruptive) innovation in this and other ontology area

  • at this stage, the approach in my area needs to be agile

  • that premature standardisation could stifle the innovation

• Want to suggest that:

  • there is a need to balance the conformity (of standards) with the agility needed to produce innovation

  • the balancing involves recognising when to standardise,

  • so, recognising when there is premature standardisation

  • it is not yet time to standardise in my area