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TCO bias

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TCO as total cost of ownership was created to compare different cars in terms their costs as fleet cars in the mid 80s. Later Gartner thought it a good idea to move the concept into information technology. The problem with TCO on cars was that you need a very precise number of variables and that … Continue reading TCO bias →

Keep it simple, not propose simplicity

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With TOGAF a lot of architects always restate KISS, however being simple is actually not simple as there are aspects of being simple that are plainly awful. Example for being simple are using flags instead of value pairs, create a new structured customer table on a micro service instead of reusing the existing enterprise wide … Continue reading Keep it simple, not propose simplicity →

TOGAF® User Group Meetings

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By The Open Group Since its inception more than two decades ago, TOGAF®, an Open Group standard, has grown to become the de facto global framework for creating Enterprise Architectures. Thousands of companies worldwide have adopted and adapted TOGAF to … Continue reading →

Baynes and Bateson

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Back in November we said goodbye to a lovely guy and one of the finest musicians I’ve ever played with, Ifor Baynes. Most people who’ll read this have probably never heard of him. Would that the world were different.     Ifor actually died in April but this was a memorial organized by some of his closest […]

Everybody Needs PraXtice

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This year marks thirty years since the publishing of Zachman’s seminal paper. And since then there’s been a torrent of publications on architecture. What’s always puzzled me was that despite all that brain power and all that paper, and believe me I’ve got bookcases and filing cabinets full of it, I’ve never come across  a […]

Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

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Of all the imperatives of digital transformation, the one success factor on which there is consensus is “enterprise-wide agility”. Agility not limited to IT services alone, but all enterprise services working together. Be it the “software development process” or the … Continue reading →

IT service providers: SMEs going global

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Published in Outsource Magazine As the media never tires of pointing out, the axis of world economic power is speedily shifting to the East, both in terms of working-age population and GDP. As many of our SME-sized IT service provider clients … Continue reading →

Stop service providers becoming data security Achilles heel

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Published in ComputerWeekly  The UK government’s recently announced cyber security threat information sharing partnership serves to underline the level of cyber risk organisations are facing. For those responsible for public and private sector IT services, it is of further concern … Continue reading →

Digital Transformation and Business Architecture (Part 3 of 3) – Presented by Dr. Giovanni Traverso, Huawei

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At The Open Group Shanghai 2016 summit, we invited Dr. Giovanni Traverso, Chief Business Architect of HUAWEI Service Strategy and Architecture Practice, to give a keynote speech “New Open Business Architecture (O-BA) to Support the Construction of Digital Business and Smart Government”. … Continue reading →