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Rajeev Bhardwaj

5 years, 1 month ago

Is this good governance?

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Compliance is only one of the key aspects of Governance, albeit one of the most well know ones. Sometimes it seems like governance gets too mired in setting up command and control, and never matures to the next level.Gartner defines Governance with a h…

Categories #eavoices, Command and Control, EA Governance, Governance Tags #eavoices
5 years, 1 month ago

Is this good governance?

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Compliance is only one of the key aspects of Governance, albeit one of the most well know ones. Sometimes it seems like governance gets too mired in setting up command and control, and never matures to the next level.Gartner defines Governance with a h…

Categories #eavoices, Command and Control, EA Governance, Governance Tags #eavoices
5 years, 3 months ago

Trust or Process or Both?

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Recently, this thought has been coming to mind more and more… does a high trust environment alleviate the need for onerous processes? Should organizations focus on creating trust as much as they focus on processes using PMP, ITIL, TOGAF or other fram…

Categories #eavoices, Trust in Enterprise Architecture, Trust vs Process Tags #eavoices, trust
5 years, 3 months ago

Trust or Process or Both?

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Recently, this thought has been coming to mind more and more… does a high trust environment alleviate the need for onerous processes? Should organizations focus on creating trust as much as they focus on processes using PMP, ITIL, TOGAF or other fram…

Categories #eavoices, Trust in Enterprise Architecture, Trust vs Process Tags #eavoices, trust
6 years, 3 months ago

It works, but do they love it?

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Great technical architecture isn’t it? After all, meets the business requirements, is modular, is robust and most importantly… is approved by the Architecture Review Board!! 🙂 LOLEven though the above invention (errr.. architecture) looks ridiculou…

Categories #eavoices, EA Cartoon, Enterprise Architecture Funny, Legacy Application Architecture, User Experience Tags #eavoices
6 years, 3 months ago

It works, but do they love it?

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Great technical architecture isn’t it? After all, meets the business requirements, is modular, is robust and most importantly… is approved by the Architecture Review Board!! 🙂 LOLEven though the above invention (errr.. architecture) looks ridiculou…

Categories EA Cartoon, Enterprise Architecture Funny, Legacy Application Architecture, User Experience
6 years, 7 months ago

Innovation – Edges or Center??

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

The speed of innovation is accelerating at the edges. Actually, it has always been like that – some times in the form of shadow IT; some times in the form of one-trick mobile apps; some times in the form of technology diversity that an EA might not lik…

Categories #eavoices, Innovation, Innovation at the edges, ivory tower Tags #eavoices
6 years, 7 months ago

Innovation – Edges or Center??

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

The speed of innovation is accelerating at the edges. Actually, it has always been like that – some times in the form of shadow IT; some times in the form of one-trick mobile apps; some times in the form of technology diversity that an EA might not lik…

Categories Innovation, Innovation at the edges, ivory tower
6 years, 7 months ago

The Cheap Information Officer evolves!

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

We all have experienced that the focus and clout of an Enterprise Architect is closely linked with the stage of evolution the CIO is in! Even at the risk of stereotyping the CIO maturation process, lets review a typical CIO evolution cycle together. I …

Categories #eavoices, Cheap Information Officer, Chief Implementation Officer, Chief Improvement Officer, Chief Irritation Officer, CIO evolution Tags #eavoices
6 years, 7 months ago

The Cheap Information Officer evolves!

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

We all have experienced that the focus and clout of an Enterprise Architect is closely linked with the stage of evolution the CIO is in! Even at the risk of stereotyping the CIO maturation process, lets review a typical CIO evolution cycle together. I …

Categories Cheap Information Officer, Chief Implementation Officer, Chief Improvement Officer, Chief Irritation Officer, CIO evolution
6 years, 7 months ago

Enterprise Architect or Enterprise Archaeologist?

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Do you sometimes feel like an Enterprise Archaeologist instead of Enterprise Architect? :-)Please indulge me as I talk IT for a second. Age old legacy systems, thousands of shadow applications, complex dependencies and inability to respond to changing …

Categories #eavoices, Current State Analysis, Enterprise Archaeologist vs Enterprise Architect, IT Digging Tags #eavoices
6 years, 7 months ago

Enterprise Architect or Enterprise Archaeologist?

by Rajeev Bhardwaj

Do you sometimes feel like an Enterprise Archaeologist instead of Enterprise Architect? :-)Please indulge me as I talk IT for a second. Age old legacy systems, thousands of shadow applications, complex dependencies and inability to respond to changing …

Categories Current State Analysis, Enterprise Archaeologist vs Enterprise Architect, IT Digging
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