Extreme cooperation

If you were literally joined to someone else for life, how well would you cope? Over the past couple of days I’ve been watching one of the most inspiring television-documentaries I’ve ever seen: ‘Abby and Brittany: Joined for life‘. (The video is…

Dinner and a Little Disruption

I attended Forrester’s Annual Forum For CIO, EA, Infrastructure & Ops, Security & Risk, and Sourcing Professionals in Washington DC a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to have dinner with Forrester CEO, George Colony. Colony emphasized his message about Digital…

How to build a Roadmap – Define End State

An earlier post (How to Build a Roadmap) discussed the specific steps required to develop a well thought out road map. This method identified specific actions using an overall pattern ALL roadmaps should follow. The steps required to complete this work: 1) Develop a…

The Open Group Sydney – My Conference Highlights

By Mac Lemon, MD Australia at Enterprise Architects Well the dust has settled now with the conclusion of The Open Group ‘Enterprise Transformation’ Conference held in Sydney, Australia for the first time on April 15-20. Enterprise Architects is proud to … Continue…

Is Your CIO Your CDO?

One analyst reports that by 2015 25% of companies will have a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) who resides outside of the IT department and is responsible for driving the digitization of research and development, marketing, customer service and the creation of new…

Enterprise Architecture – Managing Risk

Engaging in business activity always has  associated with it some element of risk. Embedded in each risk is a probability that some threat, damage, injury, liability, loss or other negative business effect, caused by external or internal factors, may occur. Unfortunately not…

Over-sell, under-deliver!

With any initiative that is offered for consideration, within a business, for inclusion within a program of work it is very easy to oversell the benefits that it can deliver and the ‘ease by which it may be accomplished. Often, the lack…

Right Sourcing. Right Now.

Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration is now available for ordering from the publisher (US, UK). The book puts forward the proposal that the modern enterprise must fundamentally rethink its ‘sourcing equation’ to become or remain viable. By presenting perspectives on sourcing from 21 different…

A Modest Proposal

After half a decade, the challenges and problems arising from the financial collapse of 2007-8 are still dragging on and on. With the economies of entire countries seemingly brought to their knees, and no apparent end in sight to any of that…

Costs of acquisition, retention, de-acquisition

How much does it cost to acquire a customer? To retain a customer? To lose a customer? And in what sense of ‘cost’? In part this one was triggered by reading through my relatively-new copy of Business Model You, and reflecting on…

Link Collection — May 12, 2013

Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default | Ars Technica good, but note the “if implemented”…   “President Barack Obama issued an executive order today that aims to make “open and machine-readable” data formats a requirement for all new…

Dragon1 treatment for Enterprise Architecture Fatigue

Enterprise Architecture FatigueInteresting discourse with a new client. They have been through numerous attempts to establish Governance using Enterprise Architecture and every time they find themselves swamped with extremely clever people who produce copious quantities of Enterprise Architecture documents, diagrams and hold…
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