Why Becoming Social Isn’t Just For Woolly Headed Idealists

In my last article, ‘Love in the Time of Cholera: How to do Business in a Recession‘, I sketched out what being a social business is about and made the claim that making the change to such a model might be a reasonable response to the current state of the world. Social business can sound pretty idealistic and […]

Love in the Time of Cholera: How to do Business in a Recession

A consultant posted a plaintive cry on an online consultancy user forum recently asking for ideas on how you can motivate staff when you have nothing to offer in the way of cash, promotions or training and when they might even face redundancy. Tough indeed. But common enough in the current environment. We’re in the middle (yes, I think it’s still […]

Power, Process, Project, People – Force One

In my last post I have started a series about Power, Process, Project and People. In this post I like to reflect a bit on power and what I am doing with respect to power in my daily Enterprise Architecture life. Just to repeat the definition from the O…

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Four principles for a sane society: an addendum

What architectures do we need for a society and economics that’d be viable and sustainable over the longer term? And how do we scale that down to the the everyday work we do at present in enterprise-architectures and the like?

CfP DED&M 2014

Digital Enterprise Design & Management (DED&M) 2014 February 2014 – Paris, France Important dates Pre-submission deadline for an optional abstract: July 31, 2013 Submission deadline : September 15, 2013 Acceptance notice for contributions: September 30, 2013 Submission deadline of final version for Proceedings: November 6, 2013 Conference: February, 2014 “Best papers” awards: February, 2014 Scientific […]