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Webinar – Design Thinking and Enterprise Architecture
From the Editor: In my role as the Chair of…
The Open Group Open Process Automation™ Forum
Recently, a new Forum commenced operation in The Open Group, the Open Process Automation™ Forum. This new Forum is focused on developing a standards-based, open, secure, interoperable process control architecture. The first Members Meeting of the Forum was held in … Continue reading →
Enterprise Architecture manages Complexity and Chaos
To succeed the enterprise has to adapt in real time to business needs and market changes and overtake the competition. To that purpose, the enterprise has to be flexible and agile. Flexibility and agility are the abilities of the enterpr…
Complexity and Chaos in the enterprise
Rather than approaching the subject from a scholastic viewpoint, I looked into the meanings of the terms in every day business talk because these would reflect more closely our concerns in the enterprise. The term chaos is used less than complexit…
Want To Create Action From Big Data? Look At Enterprise Insight Platform Suites
By now firms are deep into their big data investments — and frustrated. Too many new and rapidly evolving technologies are built on an open source and named after a bunch of zoo animals. The term insight platform has struck a chord with technology buy…
The Enterprise Organisation and the Tragedy of Commons, services & contracts (iv)
Contracts legalise the service delivery.
Amazon’s ‘Old is New Again’ Innovation
Amazon’s unveiling Monday of its new brick and mortar venture, Amazon Go is, rightly so, generating a lot of interest: The full strategy, as reported on the Verge is for three types of stores in a range of sizes: Of the three varieties of stores Amazon is considering opening, the convenience store model is the […]
Digital Transformation and Business Architecture (Part 1 of 3) – Presented by Dr. Giovanni Traverso, Huawei
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 … Continue reading →
Webinar on Design Sprints
Watch the recording On 13 December 3pm CET, Milan Guenther will give a free webinar on Design Sprints and empowering your intrapreneurs for rapid innovation. The role of a change agent in an enterprise is no easy one. Even with the right entrepreneurial spirits in your teams, politics, silos, established cultural traits and operational challenges … Read more
Webinar on Design Sprints
On 13 December 3pm CET, Milan Guenther will give a free webinar on Design Sprints and empowering your intrapreneurs for rapid innovation. The role of a change agent in an enterprise is no easy one. Even with the right entrepreneurial spirits in your te…
I fought the law (of unintended consequences) and the law won
Sometimes, what seemed to be a really good idea just doesn’t turn out that way in the end. In my opinion, a lack of a systems approach to problem solving makes that type of outcome much more likely. Simplistic responses to issues that fail to deal with problems holistically can backfire. Such ill-considered solutions not […]