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How much architecture is just enough? Is a common question I get which I will try to address in this blog. Continue reading →
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At The Open Group Amsterdam 2019, participants were offered the chance to participate in an exciting new gamification of IT4IT™, a standard of The Open Group. Jan Schilt, co-owner of GamingWorks BV acted as the CEO role of a Banking concern named UBanQ. In that game role, Jan challenged several teams to prove that they could become the bank of choice for customers in a highly competitive, rapidly changing digital world.
Welcome to the last installment in this series. Today we’re taking a look at using Lean techniques as part of a process optimization initiative. You’ve surely heard of Lean before and may have even dealt with Lean management up and close, so we’re not …
What is a cult? What is it that underpins a cult? From where do cults gain their power? And how do the same principles apply within organisations? Over on Twitter, Mel Conway (of ‘Conway’s Law‘) asked this question: We all…
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Architects have many stakeholders in different areas. Even if we need to be customer focused there are still other stakeholder requirements to consider, This blog shows some of the stakeholders I typically consider. Continue reading →
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As someone who cares about how business strategy and digital intersect, it is great to see complementary validations of business thinking. This is what I found after reading “Competing in The Age of AI”, released on January 6, 2020. The book’s authors extend and compliment “Designed for Digital” which was reviewed in September. Maybe the authors should take a walk across the Charles River.
In Competing in the Age of AI, authors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani dig into the role of data and AI in driving the digital future. Their perspectives provide additional and supportive thinking from Designed for Digital.
Welcome to the second part of this series on process optimization challenges. Last time we went over the importance of simplicity in process, and more specifically how looking at the big picture when affecting change can ensure that you make a more sig…
What’s the minimum that we need as a base for a viable business-architecture? That’s a shorter summary for a multi-part question recently sent to me by Chilean business-architect Richard Moira Lupin: What should a company have, what maturity, what capacity, what…
I wish you all a good 2020. I’ve been very busy with necessary to do’s (such as migrating my infrastructure, house renovations, etc.) and that has prevented me from writing much. I expect to return to writing pretty soon. In… Read Mo…
John Reilly of @RealTown explains the terms Assemblage and Plottage.Assemblage is the process of joining several parcels to form a larger parcel; the resulting increase in value is called plottage.If we apply these definitions to real estate, which app…
New books, new strategy, new location, for a new decade: that’s me. And with it, big changes coming up for me, all within the first half of the coming year. In late January, there’ll be the launch of the first…