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Following my last post, I decided to purchase three new books from Amazon: SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP;SAP: A Map of the Minefield; andGary Hamel – What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentles…
This is the introductory post describing three challenges for higher education Chief Information Officers. Higher education is evolving and adapting which presents challenges to the traditional approaches to IT service delivery. This section explores…
#entarch Some interesting architectural implications of the recent embarrassing failure of banking systems at RBS-NatWest Bank, which has caused financial stress and distress for millions of customers.
A banking software expert quoted in the Guardian …
Yes, this is another ‘how not to do it’ post. And no, this isn’t about the current Barclays mess, but instead about a quote I saw in a passing tweet by enterprise-architect Joseph George: RT @josephg5: “Financial services can be thought…
I would argue that while the acquisition is great for Microsoft, and absolutely fabulous for Yammer’s investors, for most enterprises it’s not really a net positive and potentially, could be quite negative depending on your company’s disposition towards the cloud.
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Last week I presented a keynote (“The Strategy to Execution Process”) at the London IRM EA/BPM conference. There were so many good ideas and new perspectives that after three days I thought my head would explode. A melting pot of ideas – There were over 240 attendees representing 34 countries as far flung as Australia, […]
At the Dachis Social Business Summit, one of the presenters, from Forrester, showed off their notion of the Always-Addressable Customer – combining geolocation and mobile to tailored marketing-messages. The presenter was clearly excited about it, and the two examples she showed…
A busy day last Thursday at the Dachis Group’s Social Business Summit London 2012, courtesy of a much-appreciated invite from the ever-indefatigable Dave Gray. An interesting day, too – not least because of the parallels and differences compared to my…
In this series on ArchiMate we have so far focused on the fundamentals of the language, and on tailoring it for use in your own organization. In the course of this series, we have touched upon the subject of using ArchiMate to communicate with various …
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Chris Armstrong, president of Armstrong Process Group, discusses how governments in particular are using various frameworks to improve their architectural planning and IT implementations in a podcast with Dana Gardner. Mr. Armstrong will be speaking at…
A preview of the upcoming Open Group Conference in Washington, D.C. – July 16-20, 2012. More information can be found here: http://www3.opengroup.org/dc2012 Continue reading →