Owner's Process Development

Information Technology Process Improvement Decision-Making: An Exploratory Study from the Perspective of Process Owners and Process Manager

This article is derived from a qualitative multicase study with two settings that explored the way decisions are made in two IT organizations regarding process improvement initiatives by using face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 20 IT process owners and managers. The two participating organizations are a healthcare insurance company and a manufacturer of electronic interconnects. The s...

Roles for Owners

Ownership types were proposed to characterize the topology of objects on the heap. They notionally organize objects into boxes, and each box belongs to an object – its owner. In most ownership-based systems, the box protects the object from its environment in some way. Thus, the owner may play the owners-as-dominators role, whereby the owner restricts access to the objects in a box, (i.e. the “...

Home-owners and poverty

Assisting Owners, Neglecting Renters

For some Canadians, the term “housing policy” evokes images of public housing, government subsidies for low-income households, and programs aimed at helping Canada’s unhoused individuals and families. It is easy, though inaccurate, to view housing policy as having this limited scope. After all, 95 percent of Canadian households obtain their housing from the private market. Two-thirds of all hou...

On Owners-as-Accessors

Prescriptive ownership systems generally impose one of two disciplines on programs: either owners-as-dominators, or owners-as-modifiers. In this paper we discuss “owners-as-accessors” — a discipline that is stricter than ownersas-modifiers but more lenient than owners-as-dominators. We provide a concise informal definition of owners-as-accessors, discuss some existing systems that employ this d...