Measure What Really Matters

I ran across a very interesting op-ed by Tim Jackson on productivity today in the New York Times. The gist of his well-articulated argument is that due to our relentless drive for increased output, certain professions and their attendant tasks…

4 Easy Ways to Kill Innovation

How should we innovate? Business and technology leaders ask me this question a lot these days. I often respond with another question. Why do you want to innovate? Nothing kills innovation faster than a lack of focus. A financial services CTO established a technology innovation team to explore.  “Explore what?” I asked.  “Emerging technologies that might help us” was his answer.  Not convinced enough focus was there, we refined the scope of his efforts using […]

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Must-See Guide to Gartner EA

As many of you are aware, the Gartner Enterprise Architecture (EA) Summit starts tomorrow in National Harbor, MD!  This year’s agenda looks promising – focusing heavily on how EA can and should deliver business value, growth and transformation. In our second annual Must-See Guide to Gartner EA, we’ve compiled our “Top Ten” list of eye-catching […]

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Modelling mixed-value in Enterprise Canvas

One of the more subtle problems in enterprise-architecture – in English-language, anyway – is the distinction between values (plural) and value (singular, but often used as plural). The Enterprise Canvas frame provides several useful methods via to disentangle an existing values-mess, and prevent getting into that kind of mess in the first place. In Enterprise Canvas, we […]