Posts Tagged "strategy"

Types of Cost

When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types in accounting terms like those shown in the very good extract from…

Cloud Strategy Begins with Value and Balances Risk

My previous post, Understanding Which Investments Should go to the Cloud, I opened the door to a discussion around qualifying opportunities for the cloud, and looked at the best ways to determine what’s right for your organization. Today, I’m going to take…

Cloud Strategy Begins with Value and Balances Risk

My previous post, Understanding Which Investments Should go to the Cloud, I opened the door to a discussion around qualifying opportunities for the cloud, and looked at the best ways to determine what’s right for your organization. Today, I’m going to take…

MSBI–Part 2—What is a core diagram?

In her wildly popular book, Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, Dr. Jeanne Ross describes the use of “core diagrams” in Enterprise Architecture.  Shortly after introducing the notion of “operating models”, she provided four example “core diagrams” from successful companies and noted that each…

Making Your Strategy More Relevant

I ran across a very interesting article on HBR this morning entitled, “Making Your Strategy More Relevant”. It’s a great read and completely applies to Enterprise Architecture and the strategies we create. There are some good tips and observations included in the…

Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Program

Some of you have asked about what I am doing these days at Microsoft. So I thought I would let you all know. I joined the Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Team back in November of last year to build a methodology and…

In the white space between stakeholders

The more time I spend as an Enterprise Architect, the more I realize just how important this role is.  Yet, the stories that we tell fail to bring across that value.  Our metaphors (framework, capability, roadmap) are woefully inadequate to communicate the…

Jeanne W. Ross on Enterprise Architecture Webcast

Jeanne Ross author of the very popular book among Enterprise Architects, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy  just released a webcast today that is interesting. If you have access to this resource it is worth a watch. Link: http://ow.ly/3vDBl   Technorati Tags: EA,Enterprise Architecture,MIT,CISR,CIO,Strategy,Business

What have software executives ever done for us?

@JohnSchlesinger asks What has the enterprise architect ever done for us? (@AtosOriginBlog, November 2010) John criticizes the IBM strategy in the late 1980s, especially the emphasis on Systems Application Architecture (SAA) and the neglect of CICS and IMS (John himself was a…
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