IT

A Capabilities-based Architecture

As technology architecture professionals, we can only be successful and valuable to those who pay us if we frame our work in terms of capabilities at the outset. If we start with details, we'll ultimately fail.

The Cloud “Through a Glass, Darkly”

The ability to transform business is the most exciting feature of the Cloud phenomenon, but users currently see it “through a glass darkly," and perhaps with a measure of faith and hope. More needs to be done to develop understanding of the…

IT Made Simple

What would it take for your business to view IT as a valuable, essential partner instead of an annoying cost-center that they're forced to deal with? Wouldn't that be better for you and better for them?

Nogility

Large technology organizations don't simply become agile. They're either agile or not. If they're not, the path to being so is via change, often radical change at that.

The Open Group Events in Arabia and India

Specific to IT security, the world is indeed flat, and the threats being faced as well as the security concerns and approaches in India and UAE mirror those in the US, Europe, and elsewhere. Continue reading →

Is The CIO Necessary?

The purpose of a company is to make money and to make that money while somehow imparting a positive effect to its customers. Can IT enable the business without a clearly laid out Vision? Without that sense of purpose, doesn't IT typically…

Enterprise IT’s Inflection Point!

Of late, the online media is flooded with plenty of articles/opinions on the future of Enterprise IT and CIO roles in next decades. Why do we see such futuristic, inspirational, transformational viewpoints doing the rounds these days? I strongly believe that Enterprise…

Unprincipled Architecture

Anything IT does should be seen as consistent. Using words like "Principle" with the definition most people have for it is a sure-fire way to disappoint folks. It turns out that instead of a iron clad 'always-will-do' thing, our Principles are merely…
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