Blueprinting Key Deliverables (from ASAP 7.0)
I thought this might be a useful guide or overview to think over or discuss the blueprinting process. it’s a decent start anyway. From the ASAP 7.0 Methodology Click for […]
Enterprise Architecture
Healthcare and information-flow
If we seek to create ‘boundaryless information flow’ in a healthcare context, where is the centre around which that information revolves? And in a healthcare context – or others, for that matter – just how ‘boundaryless’ can, or should, information-flow ever…
What I learnt at The Open Group Bangalore Conference last weekend
By Sreekanth Iyer, Executive IT Architect, IBM It was quite a lot of learning on a Saturday attending The Open Group conference at Bangalore. Actually it was a two day program this year. I could not make it on Friday … Continue reading →
Efficient, effective, convenient?
Is convenience even more fundamental to an enterprise than either efficiency or effectiveness? That’s the curve-ball that Nick Gall threw to me, in a comment on my earlier post ‘Efficient versus effective‘. It’s quite a long comment (and, unfortunately, quite…
Efficient versus effective (an addendum)
What is efficiency? From whose perspective? Just a quick follow-on to the previous post ‘Efficient versus effective‘, with a couple of insights that came up just after I’d published it. First is that the distinction between efficient and effective is often…
Efficient versus effective
What is ‘efficiency’? – in particular, ‘efficiency’ in any system that’s subject to real-world variances? Starting-point for this one was yet another passing item in my Twitterstream: RT @MentalHealthCop: If providers are contractually obliged to run hospitals at 98% capacity, is…
eGovernment – Success or Failure
This paper – eGovernment – Success or Failu […]
Transformation Business Model in Minutes?
For the past few months I have been busy helping Retail, Financial Services and Public Sector on their Digital, Multi-Channel and E-Commerce Transformation programs. Very early on in such transformation challenge, defining the business case for change …
Transformation Business Model in Minutes?
For the past few months I have been busy helping Retail, Financial Services and Public Sector on their Digital, Multi-Channel and E-Commerce Transformation programs. Very early on in such transformation challenge, defining the business case for change …
Why aren’t there Enterprise Architecture show cases? (i)
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We keep talking about EA without having in mind a common picture. A show case could be employed to this purpose, as a common reference.
What an EA show case should exhibit though?
An EA show case is an working EA made public th…
Some Lessons For Enterprise From Startup Culture
Extracted from Re/Code “Big Tech Is Going Down” with my comments in brackets. “The pace and nature of change in the core underlying technologies, product development, selling models and buying […]
Software is not a product
The idea is ubiquitous: software is a “thing”. You engineer it, you build it. When you are done you appraise the end-result as a master artist views his piece. To do it better, you think about improving your build processes. You borrow from industries like the automobile industry (Toyota and its Lean method for example). […]