What is an Open-Model environment environment?

What is an Open-Model environment?

The functional organization creates a closed-model environment, while the class-based organization creates an open-model environment. In comparison to the closed-model environment, the open-model environment encourages the proliferation of class-teams. By focusing on reusable classes, the open-model environment is enterprise-oriented. Class-team members are trained to consider the enterprise-wide impact of their system solutions. Each entity in the open-model environment collaborates with other entities. This stimulates greater cooperation and communication between units. In addition, there is an ongoing policy to realign and resynchronize the firm's business models, with its organizational structures and information systems.
In contrast to closed-model systems, open-model systems are more flexible and maneuverable. Open-model systems contain networks of class-based software components that collaborate with one another to fulfill business processes and other business requirements. Open-model software components are implemented in the form of distributed objects.
Open-model systems like their class-based teams are flexible, maneuverable, responsive to change, provide structural enforcement of business strategy and reusability, provide a specialized focus, are highly collaborative, highly interdependent, highly communicative, utilize a class-based budget and utilize class-based project tracking. In the open-model system the focus is on the business of the class. The focus is narrower, therefore the ramp-up time is quicker, resulting in faster productivity.

In general, open-model systems will result in lower cost to the organization when one considers the overall savings ensuing from the elimination of redundant software and hardware that was required by the related closed-model systems. Secondly, the savings from redirecting the firm's human resources from redundant tasks may even be greater.