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Doing More with Less, the Smart Way

August 17, 2011 by Sandra Moran

A few weeks ago I was paging through an issue of Mother Jones and the article, “All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup” caught my eye. The story discussed how more and more, managers are asking their employees to take on heavier workloads with longer hours without any incentives. What was even more striking […]

Work Smarter – Introducing Metastorm Smart Business Workspace In our recent blog post about the Future of Social…
Oil & Gas Companies Under Pressure Oil companies [are] essentially spending twice as much to undertake…
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Finding Common Ground: in response to a BPTrends article on Process and Capability

July 27, 2011 by Nick Malik

Recently, Paul Harmon published an article in BPTrends that discusses his views on the notion of Business Capability, and whether it is a useful concept. He was not particularly kind to the field of Business Architecture in his article. Whi…

Business Strategy and Kindergarten Soccer

July 13, 2011 by Nick Malik

Back when my kids were small, they all played soccer on local youth teams. It is interesting to watch very young kids play soccer, because the instructions are so simple: kick the ball into the goal. With instructions like that, what do y…

EA Schools of Thought

July 2, 2011 by Nick Malik

As an Enterprise Architect, I’m first and foremost a problem solver. I don’t like to ignore problems. Yet, it appears that EA as a field has a problem and I’m finding it tough to ignore it. What is the problem? If you judg…

Perhaps the most valuable conversation you can have… starts with a question

March 16, 2011 by Nick Malik

A co-worker and I spent an hour doing something innovative… and no, it was not part of a “Google 20% strategy.” We spent an hour discussing PKI, personal identity, and trust of both “passive content” (like documents) and “active conte…

The difference between selling EA and performing EA

February 24, 2011 by Nick Malik

Through a discussion on LinkedIn, I ran across a rather goofy blog post titled (“EA does not matter”), an obvious riff on Nick Carr’s famous HBR article. Unfortunately, while Nick Carr is a well established business and IT contributor, the …

How (not) to convince an architect

December 9, 2010 by Nick Malik

I’ve been watching, with a mixture of dismay and mirth, a LinkedIn discussion between Adrian Grigoriu and a group of Enterprise Architects as he attempts to promote his new business architecture approach. Now, to be fair, Adrian has already wri…

Joined-Up Collaboration

December 1, 2010 by Richard Veryard

@inmagic ‘s Phil Green suggests an Enterprise 2.0 Best Practice: Unite Internal Collaboration with External Communication (CMS Wire Nov 29, 2010)

As he points out, internal and external are often disconnected. Clearly, different tools are appropriat…

Requisite Collaboration

November 8, 2010 by Richard Veryard

My blogpost on The Startling Cost of Inefficient Collaboration started from the observation that “too much collaboration can be bad”. But how much is too much?

Too Little Barely Enough Just Right More Than Enough Too M…

The Startling Cost of Inefficient Collaboration

November 6, 2010 by Richard Veryard

@BillIves @tetradian and @gagan_s point to some recently published research suggesting that “collaboration can exact heavy time costs if done inefficiently” [MIT Sloan November 2010]. Yes indeed, that is what the word “inefficiently” usually means. Spe…

Collaboration Impact Zones

November 4, 2010 by Richard Veryard

In my previous post Collaboration Chasm, I looked at the adoption of collaboration technology in the enterprise, drawing on Collaboration Framework published by the CISCO community earlier this year [Insights from the Collaboration Consortium Year On…