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Richard Veryard There are several characteristic features of so-called smart content.
Content enhanced to be fit-to-purpose … content that is organized and structured for customer tasks and needs, not just for the production, packaging and distribution of physic…
#OMG #BAWG The Object Management Group Business Architecture Working Group has identified five key views of a business.
the Business Strategy view (“What the Business Wants”)
the Business Capabilities view (“What the Business Does”)
the Value Stream vi…
@mkplantes sees the demise of Kodak as an intelligence failure.
Put yourself in their Kodak leaders’ chairs for a moment and consider the four expectations of a leadership team and, more importantly, consider the speed with which they had to wo…
Steve Jobs talks about death”About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. … It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.” [Stanford University, June 2005]
But accordi…
Steve Jobs talks about death”About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. … It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.” [Stanford University, June 2005]
But accordi…
Google vs Amazon (again). @davidsprott reckons Steve Yegge’s rant is spot on. Steve Yegge is a software engineer who used to work for Amazon and now works for Google, despite the supposedly accidental publication of a long and opinionated rant (his wor…
#entarch Enterprise architects need to understand values and policies. VPEC-T is an approach that is particularly useful for situations where there are multiple conflicting values and policies, or multiple interpretations of What-Is-Going-On.
In this …
Most courses in business architecture (or any other methodology for that matter) start by teaching a set of generic principles, followed by a standard set of tasks and techniques. The tasks and techniques are then illustrated by some simplistic or cont…
I’m afraid I disagree with my friend @markhillary and countless others who have described Steve Jobs as a visionary. See for example Mark’s piece Steve Jobs Succeeded Against all the Odds (Huffington Post, 6 October 2011).
If you want a visionary from…
I’m afraid I disagree with my friend @markhillary and countless others who have described Steve Jobs as a visionary. See for example Mark’s piece Steve Jobs Succeeded Against all the Odds (Huffington Post, 6 October 2011).
If you want a visionary from…
Wikipedia defines Consilience as the unity of knowledge (literally a “jumping together” of knowledge), which has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process.
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#entarch @thepacketrat summarizes a presentation by @beamrider9 via @cgrant @cuttertweets
History is written by the victors. Ross Snyder, who describes himself as a code jockey at Etsy, recently gave an account of the evolution of Etsy’s technical arc…