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Chris LockhartI was thinking about the role expertise plays in the effectiveness of our businesses, programs, projects and other enterprise efforts. It often strikes me that too many people are involved, saying too many words, for too much time. Why is this so? It d…
If the word ‘digital’ summons images of calculator watches from the late 80s, then you understand my angst. We should be discussing how analog solutions, those with high levels of fidelity and granularity can be leveraged to better understand, predict…
You are under pressure to cut cost. Your consultants are gone. You’re on your own. Leadership is banging on the door. How do you make justifiable decisions on these reductions?
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I created a list of books I would give someone if they told me they wanted to be a good EA. Read all of these and you will be a guru (or more likely an unguru).
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With the upheaval of the economic downturn came a spate of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, splits and buy-outs. The ensuing chaos of the resulting technology portfolios cannot really be overstated. Many surviving companies are just a mess. In norm…
Next to the perennial favorite “What Enterprise Architecture is and/or is not,” I’m inclined to believe debates over frameworks are the hottest debates going right now. Why is that?
There are many challenges that CIO’s are facing in today’s cloudy, jargony, swirling maelstrom of Information Technology. But isn’t there something missing in the conversation that totally supersedes these challenges?
An architecture that is merely a PDF with a couple of generic line-box-arrow diagrams coupled with a few colorful “pancake” pictures isn’t really an architecture. It’s a marketing glossy. A white paper is too generic to be passed off as a real solution…
There is much to recommend about changing how we create, deploy and offer our services and products to customers. Yet there is an entire consulting industry built around avoiding the pitfalls of cloud.
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