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Adrian Grigoriu

The cost of bad IT (i)

December 29, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

The planning has been found unrealistic… Without experience, the team may fail to recognise components, dependencies, issues and risks…
Or the planners had to squeeze the execution schedule at the political pressure form above… Squeezing time ri…

Categories #eavoices, e-borders, EA, EA, SOA and other technologies, Enterprise Architecture, IT failure, NAO Tags #eavoices

The costs of bad IT

December 17, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

“The cost of bad IT, the e-borders project failure at £830 million and rising” as BBC reports.
“The e-borders scheme was meant to collect and analyse data on everyone travelling to and from the UK before

Categories #eavoices, EA, EA, SOA and other technologies, eborders, Enterprise Architecture, IT failure, NAO Tags #eavoices

The relevance of surveys

December 10, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

Surveys may be sometimes as irrelevant as polls are

Categories #eavoices, EA, SOA and other technologies, Enterprise Architecture, management, McKinsey Tags #eavoices

McKinsey’s practical ideas for managing EA (ii)

December 8, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

EA team should keep it clear rather than simple…Simple does not equal Clear. The opposite of simple is complicate, which you can do only so much about, while of clear is confuse, which is a state of mind.

Categories #eavoices, EA, SOA and other technologies, Enterprise Architecture, management, McKinsey Tags #eavoices

McKinsey’s practical ideas for managing EA (i)

December 7, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

While EA is involved and should produce guidelines for the decision process, it should not make decisions on behalf of the business.

Categories #eavoices, EA, SOA and other technologies, Enterprise Architecture, management, McKinsey Tags #eavoices

McKinsey’s practical ideas for managing EA

December 6, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

McKinsey’s published its Ten practical ideas for organizing and managing your enterprise architecture
 
Perhaps, the article should have started though with a definition of what EA means for different organisations and what are its methods an…

Categories #eavoices, EA, SOA and other technologies, Enterprise Architecture, management, McKinsey Tags #eavoices

To be or not to be Bimodal

November 27, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

IT is not really about investigating the emerging Digital technologies landscape, their adoption strategy and roadmapping.

Categories #eavoices, Agile, Bimodal, bipolar, DevOps, digital, EA, SOA and other technologies, Gartner Tags #eavoices

Bimodal, Agile and DevOps

November 21, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

…never mind IT, to survive, most our enterprises are rather bimodal. But I would no call them that, Bimodal enterprises, it sounds too clinical.

Categories #eavoices, Agile, Bimodal IT, bipolar, DevOps, EA, SOA and other technologies, Gartner Tags #eavoices

Bimodal IT and its relevance or lack of

November 19, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

Are we talking about a Bipolar kind of IT that switches mood, mode, energy and activities at will?… I can only hope that Bimodal IT is not about applying agile modes to IT operations.

Categories #eavoices, Bimodal IT, bipolar, EA, SOA and other technologies, Gartner Tags #eavoices

Would the Participating term reflect better the Sharing business model (iii)

November 13, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

Is the Sharing term proper when clients do not share much?
Perhaps we should call it a Peer to Peer economy because the operation takes place between two peer denizens, one renting, selling or offering a service to another; or a Participating enterpris…

Categories #eavoices, EA, SOA and other technologies, sharing enterprise Tags #eavoices

The pitfalls of Sharing

November 10, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

 continuing

Not every industry is suitable for Sharing as yet but only the some delivering services to the public such as hospitability, transportation, logistics, leasing… where the participants own the means of the trade and can work individu…

Categories #eavoices, EA, SOA and other technologies, participating enterprise, sharing economy Tags #eavoices

What Sharing brings new is the flexible workforce and assets available on demand (1)

November 7, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

Sharing implements in fact The Cloud Enterprise, the enterprise where most functions, bar the coordination function, are outsourced to 3rd parties in a services Cloud.

Categories #eavoices, EA, SOA and other technologies, sharing economy Tags #eavoices
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