From the Editor: We’re not alone – Interdisciplinary collaboration
I was recently asked to speak at a Lunch &…
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Should you derive your IT Strategy from your Business Strategy? Probably not too much.
It is generally accepted that IT Strategy must follow Business Strategy. It seems a no-brainer. But is it? There are reasons to look at it differently, reasons that become more pressing as organisations become more digital.
How Architects Can Break Down Silos by ‘Thinking Digital’
In the first article in this series, I explained how architects can become ‘change experts’ in their organizations by working together to resolve technology silos. As per Conway’s Law, organizational silos will follow suit. This cross-organizational requirement to break down silos is a fundamental mandate of digital transformation, as organizations seek to build change itself…
Business Architecture Grid
In some of my posts, I have used the terms vertical and horizontal in relation to Business Architecture. The purpose of this post is to analyse what these terms actually mean.Firstly, the word vertical is often associated with value chain thinking. Typ…
Improving cybersecurity through Compliance and Security Architecture
Organizations have been facing numerous external cyber threats lately, not to mention coping with the consequences of an uncharted global pandemic. All this turmoil has bolstered or hurried the global move towards digitalization. In this context, comp…
From the Editor: We’re not alone – Collaborating with other disciplines
Recently, I was invited to run a “lunch and learn”…
How Spar Nord Bank built a business architecture to handle risk and compliance
In 2012, Spar Nord’s processes were documented in several different places, and with many gaps in documentation. Processes were localised within different business departments, and even within individual teams. This made it impossible for management t…
Yes, 2-speed IT is real, but not like you think
The idea of 2-speed IT has been doing the round…
The Techno-Singularity is Coming
Recent movies including The Matrix Series, The Hunger Games series, The Net, Spectre, and several others in the recent “James Bond” series, The Terminator Series, and hundreds of others, plus books like George Orwell’s 1984, Isaac Asimov’s The Fo…
The Techno-Singularity is Coming
Recent movies including The Matrix Series, The
Hunger Games series, The Net, Spectre, and several others in
the recent “James Bond” series, The Terminator Series, and
hundreds of others, plus books like George Orwell’s 1984, Isaac Asimov’s
The Fo…
Yes, 2-speed IT is real, but not like you think
The idea of 2-speed IT has been doing the rounds for a while. It is now dying. But in a different way, it is actually a really important aspect of IT.
Metadata as a Process
Data sharing and collaboration between different specialist areas requires agreement and transparency about the structure and meaning of the data. This is one of the functions of metadata.I’ve been reading a paper (by Professor Paul Edwards and others)…