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Jeffrey Blake 1.Honesty: We will honor our privacy policy and terms of service.
2. Clarity: We will make sure that our policies, terms of service, and settings are easy to find and understand.
3. Freedom of speech: We will not delete or modify user data without a cl…
Law 1: We seek comfort in relationships: Surround us with community, which we’ve seen success with like Facebook, Twitter and 4chan. Most interestingly is PostSecret, an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
Law 2: We all have something to say. So give us tools to express ourselves. Tools include comments, notes, and all the fun things Facebook has given us with Timeline, etc.
Law 3: We need to feel important. Use rewards to make us feel special. How do you make people feel special? One way is through exclusivity like Gilt Group. One way is through badges on Foursquare.
Law 4: We are hypnotized by beauty. Give us something beautiful to look out. Flipboard puts the image first. Instagram is a series of beautiful images within a community.
Law 5: We are captivated by the unknown. So target our curiosity. Foursquare does this with points! Pinterest does with page after page of constant intrigue.
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• Evolution rather than replacement.
The private cloud can evolve from existing virtualized infrastructure, enabling the transition to cloud computing without a complete and disruptive infrastructure overhaul.
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1. Honesty: We will honor our privacy policy and terms of service. 2. Clarity: We will make sure that our policies, terms of service, and settings are easy to find and understand. 3. Freedom of speech: We will not delete or modify user data withou…
Law 1: We seek comfort in relationships: Surround us with community, which we’ve seen success with like Facebook, Twitter and 4chan. Most interestingly is PostSecret, an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets…
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Clarify your career goals. Develop long-term win-win relationships. Nurture your network daily. Be actively involved in your community. Meet as many people as you can. Take your business cards everywhere. Make friends, even when you don’t n…
Clarify your career goals.
Develop long-term win-win relationships.
Nurture your network daily.
Be actively involved in your community.
Meet as many people as you can.
Take your business cards everywhere.
Make friends, even when you don’t ne…
I have heard that 90% of all businesses do not have a written Business Strategy. Its in their heads – but as an Enterprise Architect how do you extract it so that you can create a viable IT Strategy? Often times CxOs don’t have time to have a strategic dialogue. One way to solve this problem is to employ the “Maxim Process”
The Maxim Process is described by Broadbent and Kitzis in [Broadbent+05] as a pragmatic way to extract enough information for a good enough IT strategy while not investing more than a day’s workshop with senior management. The CIO will organize a work-‐ shop with CxOs, which will lead to documenting 2 kinds of so-‐called Maxims:
Maxims are a few concise principles that are used to document the strategic direction of an enterprise. A Maxim workshop will usually not produce more than around 5 business maxims. For each of those, management will derive 4-‐5 maxims for the IT function that will help to support them.
A typical Maxim Workshop will be split up into two parts:
An external facilitator should moderate the workshop day and process.
To give examples imagine an old economy financial service provider like a big insurance company that runs more than one brand name on the market. For such an enterprise you could find the following business maxim:
IT maxims that could be deducted from such a business strategy could be:
SOURCE: TOGAF9 QuickStart Guide 2009
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I have heard that 90% of all businesses do not have a written Business Strategy. Its in their heads – but as an Enterprise Architect how do you extract it so that you can create a viable IT Strategy? Often times CxOs don’t have time to have a s…
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