Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Rather like an adolescent who feels continually misunderstood, Enterprise Architecture has been suffering from an identity crisis since the day this new business function was named. The first step in creating an IT infrastructure blueprint that supports corporate needs is … Continue reading →
Reblogged from Steve Blank: My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting, and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He … Continue reading →
Recently, I shared my experience leading the first Web Jam within The Open Group Cloud Work Group. We are now gearing up to have another one of these sessions – this time around, the topic being CIO priorities as driven by Cloud Computing. Continue reading →
Reblogged from Ian Carroll: After reading Dean Leffingwell’s awesome books on scaling Agile I was left wondering how to apply the principles in practice. Here’s a practical example – with a few extras courtesy of Kanban thinking. The above system … Continue reading →
Reblogged from The Open Group Blog: By Henry Franken, Sven van Dijk and Bas van Gils, BiZZdesign The discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA) was developed in the 1980s with a strong focus on the information systems landscape of organizations. Since … Continue reading →
The Open Group conducted its first ever webjam within The Cloud Work Group last month. A Webjam is an informal mechanism for the members within a particular work group with a common interest to have an interactive brainstorming debate on a topic of their choice. Consider it to be a panel discussion — except everyone on the call is part of the panel! I coordinated the first webjam for The Cloud Work Group — the topic was “What will Cloud do to your resume?” Continue reading →
The challenge of pricing – for an IT service provider While an end-to-end management approach provides a competitive service advantage, it can carry a substantial additional – and often unforeseen – cost and risk. The challenge is that it’s difficult … Continue reading →
The challenge of pricing – for an IT service provider While an end-to-end management approach provides a competitive service advantage, it can carry a substantial additional – and often unforeseen – cost and risk. The challenge is that it’s difficult … Continue reading →
“Let’s start 2013 by considering how the CIO function can deliver new solutions to your enterprise when as much as 80 percent of the IT budget goes to just keeping the lights on, maintaining your current systems. With market conditions forcing increased cost cutting, and a distinct trend to place more of the technology decision making and buying power in the hands of the business, the mystery of successful delivery is getting harder for the CIO to solve.”
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Reblogged from Australian Business Solutions: By Tony Fantulla. It can be very frustrating for a company owner or business manager when an organization has great staff, good products, a strong vision and clear direction, yet the company’s growth is impeded … Continue reading →
Reblogged from COMMUNICATIONS & MANAGEMENT BLOG: Well as we almost enter the festive season it is perhaps time for reflection regarding the challenges you faced as IT professionals in 2012. I was reminded by a colleague of an article at … Continue reading →