Towards a Collaborative Networks Governance Framework

Abstract : Nowadays Collaborative Networks (CN) have to evolve in an unstable world and therefore appear, change and disappear quickly. Although IT solutions like SOA can support these evolutions, there is a lack of governance at the business layer. This lack relies on the poor (i) aggregation of data to information, (ii) comparison of CN vision of the world and real world, (iii) sharing of partner’s objectives. Moreover, organizations have to manage exponential growth in the amounts of data with the development of Internet of Events. Therefore, organization should not manage information with an empirical approach. This paper aims to define a Collaborative Networks Governance Framework (CNGF) in order to support CN. CNGF manages (i) snapshots, which are timestamp pictures of the world, (ii) indicator function, which transforms sets of data into information, (iii) agility function, which describes partners’ objectives and (iv) analysis function in order to evaluate the performance of CN.