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Enterprise OODA

#OODA #orgintelligence In response to @Griff0Jones, I promised to beef up the coverage of OODA in my book on Organizational Intelligence (draft now available via LeanPub). I should welcome any comments and suggestions on the following, as well as pointers to any…

Enterprise OODA

#OODA #orgintelligence In response to @Griff0Jones, I promised to beef up the coverage of OODA in my book on Organizational Intelligence (draft now available via LeanPub). I should welcome any comments and suggestions on the following, as well as pointers to any…

Organizational Intelligence eBook

#orgintelligence I have put a draft of my Organizational Intelligence book onto the @LeanPub platform. This is now available in PDF, ePUB and MOBI. http://leanpub.com/orgintelligence I'm also hoping to get a draft of my Business Architecture book up soon, but this is…

Organizational Intelligence eBook

#orgintelligence I have put a draft of my Organizational Intelligence book onto the @LeanPub platform. This is now available in PDF, ePUB and MOBI. http://leanpub.com/orgintelligence I'm also hoping to get a draft of my Business Architecture book up soon, but this is…

Structure Follows Strategy?

#entarch In his talk to the BCS Enterprise Architecture Group this week, Patrick Hoverstadt suggested that traditional enterprise architecture obeyed Alfred Chandler's principle: Structure Follows Strategy. In other words, first the leadership defines a strategy, and then enterprise architecture helps to create…

Structure Follows Strategy?

#entarch In his talk to the BCS Enterprise Architecture Group this week, Patrick Hoverstadt suggested that traditional enterprise architecture obeyed Alfred Chandler's principle: Structure Follows Strategy. In other words, first the leadership defines a strategy, and then enterprise architecture helps to create…

Smart Content

There are several characteristic features of so-called smart content. Content enhanced to be fit-to-purpose ... content that is organized and structured for customer tasks and needs, not just for the production, packaging and distribution of physical documents. (Mirko Minnich, ex Elsevier) Self-organizing…

Five Views of Business Architecture

#OMG #BAWG The Object Management Group Business Architecture Working Group has identified five key views of a business. the Business Strategy view ("What the Business Wants") the Business Capabilities view ("What the Business Does") the Value Stream view ("How the Business Does")…

Intelligence Failure at Kodak

@mkplantes sees the demise of Kodak as an intelligence failure. Put yourself in their Kodak leaders’ chairs for a moment and consider the four expectations of a leadership team and, more importantly, consider the speed with which they had to work though…

Towards a VPEC-T analysis of Google

#entarch Enterprise architects need to understand values and policies. VPEC-T is an approach that is particularly useful for situations where there are multiple conflicting values and policies, or multiple interpretations of What-Is-Going-On. In this post, I want to look at Google. Can…

Fast data – speed over precision?

@bmichelson posts a piece on an HP website called Fast Data: Speed over precision for better decision-making (21 June 2011), summarizing a recent interview in MIT Sloan with Ali Riaz and Sid Probstein of software company Attivio. Riaz and Probstein are not…

Complexity and Value – Is Amazon bothered?

@Cybersal complains about Amazon. "Yet again Amazon ships a tiny book with an unreliable courier that my postman could have shoved through my letterbox." and explains "Post office 10 min walk. Courier depot 30 min drive. Courier not a good option for…
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