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In our previous blog, we briefly outlined the two strategic options that our example insurance company ArchiSurance is exploring. By analyzing the operational excellence strategy, they have benchmarked their efficiency against the industry average: ave…
See Google research into a good manager’s traits
Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams is not so surprising
Confucius may not be a reference point often used by western architects, but it does no harm to at some wisdom. The wisdom I am talking here is that we usually create an overestimation of skills that we have developed ourself, while we also underestimate skills we have learned the hard way. This is specific … Continue reading Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance →
The ideal “One for All” team model looks more like “All for One” in real life.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve run across a flurry of articles dealing with the issue of legacy systems used by the U.S. government. An Associated Press story on the findings from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued in May reported that roughly three-fourths of the $80 billion IT budget was used to maintain […]
I recently saw a post in a LinkedIn forum (AEA) positing this questions. Here is my response: If EA is truly business strategy driven, and encompasses all domains, including security, operations and organization (in addition to the traditional domains of…
In our previous blog, we introduced the new 3.0 version of the ArchiMate standard and outlined some of its improvements. In this blog, we focus on the improvements of the language in the way it is presented: its notation and viewpoints.
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Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams
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“Team members get things done and meet Google high bar for technical excellence”
This “Google high bar for technical excellence” sounds a tad patroni
By Myles F. Suer, Chief Platform Evangelist, Informatica Recently, I got to sit at the font of wisdom which is Jeanne Ross, and get her view into digital disruption and the role of Enterprise Architecture in enabling firms to respond. … Continue reading →
Here is the Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams. But Google has done extensive research too into the skills and character traits of a good manager. Let’s digest these findings.
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Change is intrinsic to the IT industry and its customers. And most of us, whether in business or government, are deeply focused on enabling business agility, whether through technology change, product innovation, software architecture, agile practices,…
An unexpected referendum result in one smallish country that triggers business-uncertainty on a literally worldwide scope and scale: that’s Brexit. A nice example, in fact, of what’s really meant by the term ‘disruption‘. What happens when those ‘rules’ by which…