About
the ICHThe
Mission of the ICH is to
promote mechanisms for assuring the successful implementation of enterprise technology
solutions. Our
Vision is to contribute to society by enabling
and encouraging - Adaptive,
architecture-independent solutions to common IT challenges (including enterprise
integration, knowledge management, and infrastructure security)
- Greater
IT success rates through improved alignment, management of complexity and change,
and communications between buyers and suppliers of solution components
Our
Guiding Principles are - Transparency
in motives and influences
- Sharing
of infrastructure knowledge for the common good
- Trustworthy,
accurate, and timely contextualized information
Our
Goals include the creation of measurable improvements
in the IT capabilities of member organizations: - Better
alignment of architectures and components with key business drivers
- Better
understanding of critical issues and solutions (including interoperability and
security)
- Better
intra- and inter-organizational collaboration for solving common problems and
increasing competencies in critical technical areas
- Better
leverage and reuse of lessons and innovations
The
ICH Value Proposition We
serve members and the general public by helping to advance the capability and
integrity of information and communication infrastructures by -
Offering research, products, and services for improving the consistency
and efficacy of technical systems toward enterprise ends
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Providing a venue for sharing critical knowledge
about technologies, standards, models, processes, strategies, criteria, and sources
(including requirements identification and mapping approaches, engineering practices,
architectural alternatives, component interoperabilities, proven solutions to
common problems, risk mitigations, success factors, and so on)
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Managing a shared knowledge base
of vetted information about commercial and government off-the-shelf technologies
(including functions, features, standards compliance, and implementation successes)
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Fostering understanding, consensus, and active cooperation
among industry, government, and academia in defining conditions, opportunities,
and threats and in advancing infrastructure capability and security
- Promoting
demand for such advancement by increasing awareness through public relations
programs and interactions with technology and user communities
- Anticipating
the need
for further advancements by actively monitoring changing business, technological,
and security conditions
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