Group 486

Core principle 2: Event-driven coordination

In many sectors, timing is of the essence. Whenever a schedule changes, a delivery arrives, a process step is completed or a malfunction occurs, the involved parties wish to be notified as soon as possible. With the use of the BDI, organizations and professionals are automatically informed via systems about events relevant to them, even when the parties do not have a direct contractual relationship. This can be referred to as event-driven coordination: the proactive, trusted and automatic sharing of information as soon as something happens that influences a process, schedule or result.  

How does it work?

In complex processes, a lot happens simultaneously. Activities quickly follow one another, sometimes run in parallel and are often interdependent. Proper coordination is only possible if the right information is available at the right time.

With the BDI, this coordination happens as follows:

  1. Every relevant event in a process generates its own digital notification
    1. who owns this data (the data owner)
    2. what organizations, roles or systems have access to this information
  2. When data is shared, security, authorizations and agreed-upon rules are automatically taken into account.

The described process occurs over the boundaries of organizations and IT systems, without central data storage. The BDI connects parties when needed.

What does that mean in practice?

For every relevant event, such as

  • finishing a product order;
  • delivering material to a project location;
  • measuring the quality;
  • registering the environmental measurements;
  • or changing a schedule,

a temporary digital network is formed with only the involved parties. These parties automatically receive a notification when an event is relevant to them. As soon as the process is finished, this network is closed again. This results in many secure, temporary collaborations that coexist within the BDI. When needed administrators or certified institutions can (temporarily) join these networks, e.g. for control or justification.