A PIs are great, but only to professional people who understand integration processes and can work with the APIs which brings us to our next point.
Excellent integration experts are a rare breed here, at Youredi, we are lucky enough to have quite a few great ones! The reason for this is that technical knowledge and expertise alone is typically not enough to make the integration project a success, you need an integration expert that also has knowledge and understanding about different business processes and can guide you through the complex requirements involved.
This combination is not something you can easily find. Integration experts are architects that help design the optimal integration framework. Finding these experts has proved to be tough even for IT companies, but it is even harder for companies whose core business is something entirely different.
As strange as it may sound, often the integration projects run into trouble for the very same reason that they are initiated. Namely, the lack of access to data in other systems. There may be various reasons for this that stem from, e. None of these reasons should stop an integration process, but in practice, companies run into these issues all the time. For an integration project to overcome these issues, you need strong support the senior management of the company that can override any protectionist objections that may arise during the project.
Probably one of most common issue that we have faced regarding integration projects is the resistance of various internal stakeholders. The most typical one of these being the internal IT department. While the business should be the driver for an integration project, the IT department sometimes tends to forget their role as a support organization and it wants to act as the driver for the integration.
Yet, the average IT department does not have the required skill set to take on a complex, enterprise-wide integration project. Typical IT department is also not very good at contacting third parties to engage in B2B integration. One way to avoid this is to ask your IT department to provide a detailed project and resourcing plan and ask them to commit to it. If they still insist on doing it, you may consider giving them a chance. When an organization is designing a large-scale B2B integration project, often they feel that they may have created a monster.
Suddenly there are so many aspects to take into consideration that people start questioning the feasibility of the whole project. In one big block, a system and data integration project can be quite overwhelming, and in the end, organizations end up doing nothing at all.
They simply settle with the status quo and accept the fact that their systems and business processes will remain sub-optimal. However, a well-designed systems integration project can be executed in smaller sub-projects, keeping each individual sub-project short and enabling readjustment of their prioritization along the way. This also reduces the overall risks related to the project, and each sub-project alone will deliver tangible benefits to the organization quickly and even if the entire systems integration project takes longer.
Although integration projects are quite demanding, the benefits that they bring to organizations are unquestionable. Therefore, organizations should not be discouraged by the above mentioned potential reasons for failure. They are simply matters that need to be taken into consideration before starting an integration project. All the above-listed challenges can be overcome by good design and competent management of the integration project, the rest is just hard work.
Our experience is that the most successful integration projects are conducted by open-minded organizations that are willing to engage an integration service provider that guides them through the project.
The plaintiff also alleged that he had not been hired as a full-time Goodyear employee, but was instead kept a contract employee for seven years because of his race. He eventually asked Costea to drop the lawsuit because he was struggling with depression after the incident, Costea said. But when I asked Michael Getz, a Beaumont city-council member, about racism in Beaumont and the incident at the Goodyear tire plant, he played it down.
It happens across the country. How many times can you pick up a newspaper and read that somebody found a noose in the workplace? The North End is in need of development, they say, and the city is spending money there to make it a better place to live—rebuilding Concord Homes would further that mission.
Plus, the Housing Authority argues, residents want to stay on the north side, near their churches and their families. Had Beaumont been able to build on the existing footprint with HUD funding, the Housing Authority would have been able to avoid debt, said Robert Reyna, the head of the Housing Authority. In addition Reyna said that new restaurants and businesses are opening in the North End, though all I could find was a new Dollar General and a few fast food restaurants.
As a last-minute attempt to compromise, the Housing Authority proposed a plan to build units in a high-opportunity area, but only 50 would be public housing. It planned to still rebuild Concord Homes. The state rejected this plan because it did not promote fair housing, and because it eliminated 50 units of public housing.
The suit was resolved by a consent decree in , but Beaumont still resisted taking actions to integrate its housing, despite HUD money provided to the city in to develop a few units of affordable housing in desegregated areas. Little had changed by the time Hurricane Ike swept through Beaumont in A settlement between the housing advocates and the state required these funds to be distributed in ways that led to more integration, and allowed the groups to review applications for disaster funding to make sure the state complied.
The state did its own review, and agreed that Beaumont could not rebuild on the site, and HUD agreed. The Beaumont Housing Authority also proposed to sell off the individual units of affordable housing it had built, which were some of the only places that low-income residents could live in public housing that was not located in the North End.
I spent some time at Concord Homes, and many residents said they just wanted the city to rebuild the units. I asked a group of women in a north-side park about moving Concord Homes and they agreed that residents should stay put. But this has been true for a long time, and little has changed. An effort to repave Concord Road, which runs through the North End, has been delayed multiple times. And now we're going to move everyone out of there? I don't see that as a practical situation.
Ho, the Legal Aid attorney, said he was surprised by the degree to which North End residents seem to accept that they are relegated to a more toxic and blighted area of town than white residents. Residents of public housing get written up for stacking dishes on the counter rather than in cupboards or taking too long to fold their laundry. One low-income resident was allegedly nearly kicked out of her apartment for disobeying a posted sign and saying negative things about the Housing Authority in a public area, Ho said.
It was the second such incident that week. A surveillance video showed a white man running out of a white pick-up truck and writing the letters. And last week, an African American councilman said publicly that he was a victim of racism when residents objected to his application for a permit to open his law office in an area near downtown.
Another African American councilman said he had heard disparaging remarks made about areas of town where black residents lived three times since January.
Initial school integration gains following Brown stalled and black children are more racially and socioeconomically isolated today than at any time since data have been available Schools for black children had enormous resource shortages in Inequalities still exist in some places, although they are much smaller.
But resource equality itself is insufficient; disadvantaged students require much greater resources than middle-class white students to prepare for success in school. Expensive but necessary resources include high-quality early childhood programs, from birth to school entry; high-quality after-school and summer programs; full-service school health clinics; more skilled teachers; and smaller classes.
Even with these added resources, students can rarely be successful in racially and economically isolated schools where remediation and discipline supplant regular instruction, excessive student mobility disrupts learning, involvement of more-educated parents is absent, and students lack adult and peer models of educational success.
Schools remain segregated today because neighborhoods in which they are located are segregated. Raising achievement of low-income black children requires residential integration, from which school integration can follow. Education policy is housing policy. Federal requirements that communities must pursue residential integration have been unenforced, and federal programs to subsidize movement of low-income families to middle-class communities have been weak and ineffective.
Correcting these policy shortcomings is essential if the promise of Brown is to be fulfilled. Brown and desegregation Brown v. Black student achievement and the achievement gap Black student achievement, nationwide, and in every state, has improved at a spectacular rate since Brown. Here is some of what we now know: Resource equality is not enough Per-pupil spending on black and white students today is now roughly equal compared with the disparities of 60 years ago , but students who come to school with the handicaps of lower-social-class status need a lot more resources, not just a little more, and certainly not the same as those enjoyed by white middle-class students.
Children whose parents have less educational attainment and lower literacy levels hear less complex language at home, and are read to less frequently. Narrowing the difference between their school readiness and that of middle-class children requires provision of high-quality early childhood programs, from birth.
High-quality early childhood programs with trained professionals, low child-caregiver ratios, and spacious play areas , as well as nurse home-visiting programs that support mothers to be more effective caregivers, will be very expensive to implement. For very young children, having visited a zoo better predicts reading ability than knowing how to sound out letters that spell animal names.
High-quality early childhood programs can help with this for young children from lower-social-class families. For older youth, participation in equally high-quality after-school and summer programs is necessary to boost achievement. Such programs do not stop at academic remediation and homework help, but include field trips, club activity, music, art, and dance, and organized athletics comparable to what middle-class children take for granted.
These programs, too, are expensive. Middle-class children, typically from smaller families, not only get academically supportive adult attention at home, but more of it. Lowering class sizes for children who need it most is also very expensive.
So is ensuring that such children have teachers who are more skilled than teachers of middle-class children. And children who come to school stressed from segregated neighborhoods with more crime and violence need added support services in school, like counselors and social workers. This, too, is expensive.
They also have unique health problems contributing to lower achievement—for example, iron-deficiency anemia and lead poisoning, or asthma from living in less healthy environments. They tend not to get corrective lenses for vision problems. Putting full-service health clinics, with pediatric nurse practitioners, dentists and dental hygienists, and optometrists, in schools serving disadvantaged students is also an essential component of a narrowed achievement gap.
When a few children in a classroom come from homes with less literacy, and without the benefit of high-quality early childhood care, a skilled teacher can give those children special attention. But when most children in that classroom have these disadvantages, the average instructional level must decline. The most skilled teachers must devote more time to remediation, less to new instruction.
When most or even many children in a classroom are sorely stressed, having endured life in a violent neighborhood, teachers must devote more time to discipline, less to learning. Parents in such schools do not have the educational backgrounds themselves to be able to monitor curricular decisions. Parent involvement, an essential ingredient of successful schools, consists in such schools mostly of fundraising support and chaperoning field trips.
Segregated neighborhoods lead to segregated schools The schools black children attend today, in North and South, East and West, are segregated mostly because their schools are located in segregated neighborhoods.
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