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Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet (See also the Enterprise Advocate’s post on Enterprise Architecture & Complexity Theory) I just discovered this brilliant presentation by Dr Russ Ackoff. In it he […]
What are the values of a good enterprise architect? Being in a consulting practice where I spend the most of my working life collaborating with CIO’s, process owners, and senior architects, I often hear that question. Often the question emerges out of …
What are the values of a good enterprise architect? Being in a consulting practice where I spend the most of my working life collaborating with CIO’s, process owners, and senior architects, I often hear that question. Often the question emerges out of …
This is the first of a three part series on Challenges for Higher Education CIOs – Globalization of Education. The delivery of education has become a global business. The number of students from K to 12 aged populations in North America are dec…
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…
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…