Why Grit, Grounded Vision, and FCO-IM Are the Real Game Changers

In the modern push for digital transformation, countless organizations have embraced the rallying cries of "data-driven decision-making" and the "AI revolution." Buzzwords echo in boardrooms. Pilot projects flourish. Consultants profit. Yet, somewhere between the vision decks and the dashboards, the people on the work floor—the ones who keep operations moving—are forgotten. And so is the fundamental truth: sustainable change starts with clarity, communication, and commitment.

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Whenever we post updates of CaseTalk on social media, some experts take these a step further. I love seeing those kinds of responses, for they are making me think outside the box, and add unique new features I never dreamed about. One of these comments was placed at a post about integrating the webbrowser in CaseTalk to integrate the web into the modeling workbench.

This specific comment suggested integrating Google Maps or OpenStreetMap into the model. It would allow example population, to be plotted onto a map, or have custom attribute annotations to indicate where the model element occurred.

After having given this idea enough time to ripen, I decided to combine the so-called complex type and Maps into one. Let me explain.

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On the 2nd of December, I organized another Special Interest Group gathering for FCOIM fans and CaseTalk users in Utrecht. After I briefly showed the feature list of the last 20+ years, we quickly moved over to presenting and discussing GenAI, Sortals, Hapsah, use cases at ProRail and RVO, and intriguing research on EnterpriseOntology by modeling in CaseTalk.

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