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Following on from the previous post ‘Sensemaking: Into the void‘, what’s a good everyday analogy or example on how to develop our skills in sensemaking and strategy? In particular, how to understand, apply and use the ‘sense, make-sense, decide, act‘…
My current, favourite question for Executives and Architects is “How do you see Architecture operating in an Agile environment.” This question usually elicits a wry smile and a response along the lines of “I will […]
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In the real world, ethics is rarely if ever the primary focus. People engaging with practical issues may need guidance or prompts to engage with ethical questions, as well as appropriate levels of governance.@JPSlosar calls for”a set of easily recogni…
@riptari (Natasha Lomas) has a few questions for DeepMind’s AI ethics research unit. She suggests that”it really shouldn’t need a roster of learned academics and institutions to point out the gigantic conflict of interest in a commercial AI giant resea…
What is culture? Can we change it? And should we? A whole stream of insights on this arising from an innocuous-seeming tweet this morning from Shawn Callahan: Culture is when something happens and it’s not remarkable. Culture is what we…
If you have some experience in modeling real-life, full-size architectures for large-scale organizations – preferably in the ArchiMate language, of course – you have likely come across the challenge of organizing your models in logical and manageable w…
TLDR: Participate in the 2018 Forrester Digital Experience and Organization Survey. Click here to start the questionnaire now, the survey is closing soon! Forrester has fielded a Digital Experience and Organization survey for the past four years. We’ve…
Agile and DevOps are on the rise. Hardly anyone these…
Last year, Facebook changed its mission statement, from “Making The World More Open And Connected” to “Bringing The World Closer Together”.As I said in September 2005, interoperability is not just a technical question but a sociotechnical question (inv…
In September 2017, The Open Group began working with Acclaim, (a division of Pearson VUE, an exam delivery company), to introduce the concept of “Open Badges” to The Open Group IT4IT™ and Open Certified Architect certification programs. Since then, we have been busy – we have now rolled out this program across our entire certification portfolio and as a result have invited everyone with a current certification with The Open Group to participate. This has resulted in over 20,000 badges being issued, with no surprises that the TOGAF®, a standard of The Open Group, badges are the most popular.
Lesson 13 from my book, 101 Lessons from Enterprise Architecture is about the use of arrangement to manage complexity. In an earlier post I asked for advice on whether I should publish a new edition of this book. Thank you to everyone for your valuable…
Following @carolecadwalla’s latest revelations about the misuse of personal data involving Facebook, she gets a response from Alex Stamos, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer.Hi, Carole. First off, I work on security, not strategy, and I agree that this …