The Architect’s Contract
By Paul Preiss, of IASA Global Today, it has been 22 years that I have been studying architects. 22 years of delight and chagrin, of hope, belief and wishing. Mpre than two decades of seeing […]
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Generative AI – Examining the Risks and Mitigations
By Stephen Kaufman, Chief Architect, Microsoft In a recent McKinsey whitepaper on “What matters most: Eight priorities for CEOs in 2024,” the authors called out Gen AI as #1, calling it “Technology’s generational moment”. SAG-AFTRA, […]
Exploring Implementing Responsible AI in Software Development Lifecycle
By Alok Mehta – CIO Business Systems at Kemper and Mila Beryozkin – Principal Data Management Consultant at Discover Financial Services The ever-evolving technology of Generative AI (Gen AI) has been making waves in the […]
Elevate to the ‘Wow’ Factor with IT Support
By Lisa Woodall What is at the heart of providing IT support at the moments that matter to your corporate colleagues? When I look at the common technologies like Servicenow and Zendesk, I see IT […]
Women In Architecture: Early Insights and Reflections
By Whynde Kuehn Women In Architecture (WIA) is a global initiative with the mission to accelerate the pathway for women in architecture to amplify the impact of the discipline worldwide. WIA celebrated its one-year anniversary […]
From DevOps Expert to Breathwork Pioneer, JJ Ruescas Possesses a Passion for Human Optimization – Part 1
(Editor’s Note: Part 2 appears on Thursday.) For JJ Ruescas, DevOps represented an opportunity. His passion for the methodology provided a pathway from his native Bolivia, where he was born and raised, to the United […]
From Dark Scrum to Broken SAFe — some real problems of Agile-at-scale
There is a massive movement of organisations moving to agile-at-scale (e.g. SAFe). Ironically, it can turn into an organisation becoming one big ‘project’, the opposite of what agile wants to achieve.
Creating the Corporate Future
As enterprise architecture has developed as a discipline over the last 25 years, it has borrowed significantly from business strategy. Given this, it is important to recognize and understand the business strategy underpinnings of enterprise architecture. A great example is the “Creating the Corporate Future” written by strategic, systems thinker Russell Ackoff. This article will share some of the key insights from the book that were building blocks of enterprise architecture, so you be an even better enterprise architect and strategic thinker.
Business Service vs. Product Thinking
By Myles Suer, #CIOChat Facilitator, CIO.com Contributor, and Dell Boomi Head of Global Enterprise Marketing
Many years ago, I was asked to review an early draft of ITIL Version 3.0. I remember even taking the draft service strategy book on vacation with me. My wife asked me at one point why I was getting so excited about a ‘tech manual’ while she said that she was reading something truly exciting, a romance novel. In the end, I made many comments and suggestions as a business strategist. Most did not get accepted.
EA and Agile – Not Mutually Exclusive After All!
Every organization needs to be Agile in order to handle all kind of forces and developments inside and outside the organization. Equally, organizations also need the structure and overarching view of an organization that is provided by Enterprise Architecture. and in particular, The TOGAF® standard, a standard of The Open Group. Both Lean and EA can make organizations more Agile, but work from a different, complementary perspective. By synergizing both EA and Lean knowledge, techniques, and people, many organizations are exploiting the strengths of both approaches.
A tipping point in the information revolution
Digital enterprise, digital transformation, Agile and DevOps as a means to keep IT change going, these are all illustrations of a tipping pont in the information revolution.
The IT4IT™ Standard Brought to Life
At The Open Group Amsterdam 2019, participants were offered the chance to participate in an exciting new gamification of IT4IT™, a standard of The Open Group. Jan Schilt, co-owner of GamingWorks BV acted as the CEO role of a Banking concern named UBanQ. In that game role, Jan challenged several teams to prove that they could become the bank of choice for customers in a highly competitive, rapidly changing digital world.