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Once you move past your junior positions in our trade you quickly encounter the strange being of the senior business sponsor/owner/executive. He is usually only interested in two things. The one thing are options to move ahead (usually prefers clean cut ones that are easy but not too easy to understand) and story boards. This … Continue reading On Stupidity – Storytelling →
Looking into the future is something that we as humans always will due as our brain is designed around predictions to stay sane, at least as long as we are healthy we block certain possibilities out of our mind and we have the tendency to fantasise about some great things. Most architects will usually have … Continue reading On Stupidity – Roadmaps →
Keep it simple. Simple, yet not simplistic. Acknowledge the complexity, yet don’t ever push that complexity in people’s faces. (Not until they’re ready for it and choose to face it, anyway.) Help people find their own effectiveness about creating effectiveness.…
Agility has become a key ability of enterprises. The pace at which customers require changes, at which new laws and regulations affect services and introduce processes, and the ease with which competitors can disrupt your business, as Google a…
Agilität ist zu einer wichtigen Fähigkeit der Unternehmen geworden. Das Tempo, bei dem die Kunden sich verändern, bei dem neue Gesetze und Verordnungen ihre Dienstleistungen und Prozesse beeinflussen und die Schnelligkeit, mit der Wettbewerber, wie Google und Apple, sie herausfordern, führt allzu oft zu einem enormen Druck auf das Unternehmen. Dabei kann sich der Druck in unterschiedlicher Art und Weise bemerkbar machen, wie zum Beispiel Druck sich schnell zu verändert, oder neue Technologien einzuführen, Wachstum zu generieren oder Kosten zu reduzieren. In Folge dessen ist die Agilität schlichtweg notwendig, um überhaupt mit ständigen Innovationen schnell auf dem Markt agieren zu können. Beides, Innovation und Flexibilität, sind für eine nachhaltige Positionierung am Markt notwendig.
By The Open Group The Open Group Healthcare Forum has published its first whitepaper, “Enhancing Health Information Exchange with the FHIM” which examines the Federal Health Information Model (FHIM) and its efforts to bring semantic interoperability to the Healthcare industry. … Continue reading →
A quick ‘Just so you know’, really, to pre-empt some possible future confusion. I gather from Dave Gray that Dave Snowden is launching a new product, designed to work in conjunction with Cognitive Edge‘s existing ‘SenseMaker’ toolset: RT @davegray: Very…
Enterprise-architecture is dead. As a term, anyway. Although it had been dying for quite a while, we do have some certainty now about when it died; we know how it died, and even why it died. And whilst some of us…
Bring your own device, bring your own technology, bring your own phone or IT consumerisation (respectively BYOD, BYOT, BYOP). Whatever you want to call it, anno 2015 everybody knows the concept of bringing your privately owned device to access company information and applications. This was thrown in high gear with the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, making it impossible to imagine a working world without the concept. However people stand divided regarding the effects of BYOD. In this blog we discuss the good, the bad & the ugly regarding BYOD – leading to the conclusion that it is all about a good BYOD strategy, policy and plan how things work out for your organization. As we always like to finish on a positive note we’ll start with the bad and the ugly and finish with the good.
I am a consultant and there are many areas where consultants form an important part in todays world. however in the following little article I will show you that consultants are part of a symptom of in inefficiency, but can in some cases also be used to heal that symptom, which may sound wrong as … Continue reading On Stupidity – Consultants →
In the previous post, Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns, I discussed the creation of reusable patterns to more effectively model large homogenous parts of the infrastructure landscape, or in other words: if you have 1000 identical RHEL servers, modelling the structure of … Continue reading →
How successfully does your organization implement strategic business change initiatives? A recent study[1] by the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed that only 56 percent of strategic initiatives meet the original goals and business intent. Advances in digital technology will continue to enable all kinds of new products and services and inspire innovative strategies, but will your
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