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#pacelayering In Stuart Brand’s theory, originally titled Shearing Layers and subsequently relabelled as Pace Layering, the slowest moving element of physical architecture was location, or what he (for the sake of alliteration) called Site.
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Business agility is all about being prepared for and able to quickly adapt to change. There has been so much written about agility from gurus like Peter Drucker, industry analysts like Forrester and Gartner, and the large well-respected community of process improvement practitioners that it would seem there is nothing new left to be said. […]
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I remember very clearly the day I taught my kids to swear. Oh, this was no well thought out exercise based on principles like expanding my child’s world view in a carefully controlled environment. Nope this was, Oh SSSHHHHOOOOOOT ….. (or somethin…
I remember very clearly the day I taught my kids to swear. Oh, this was no well thought out exercise based on principles like expanding my child’s world view in a carefully controlled environment. Nope this was, Oh SSSHHHHOOOOOOT ….. (or somethin…
Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong will. Too many companies fail to anticipate the bumps in the road and to assign leaders who are ultimately accountable for keeping projects on task and budget when the inevitable hiccups happen. As a result, organizations often blow deadlines, overspend and backtrack because they skip the crucial stage: mobilization. Mobilization connects strategy and execution. This is the step where top-performing companies set plans and budgets against […]
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Cometh the moment, cometh the man! The biggest challenge in front of the modern CIO is to wade through all the clutter and hype, to create a robust IT infrastructure which efficiently supports the business goals of his organization. There are disr…
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After a decade (or even two) of banging around the EA concept, there are too many egos and vested interests at play that render the process of objectively defining EA harder than it should be.Well, reputed fora, studiously ignoring…
1. How many enterprise architects does it take to define “enterprise architecture”?
Answer: Well, that depends on what you mean by “enterprise architecture”.
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