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It’s customary at this time of year to do some kind of review: what’s happened in the past annual cycle, hopes and intentions for the next. [Sometimes these reviews can be a bit too predictable in their over-focus on prediction? As Forrester enterprise-architect Brian Hopkins put it in a nicely ironic Tweet this morning, “I predict […]
A nice little read during the holidays was Rich Gold book: The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) . It got me thinking about quite a few issues, of which I would like to share one with you: the four hats of creativity. Usually the focus of software development is […]
Het bericht Plenitudinal Musings verscheen eerst op Rob Vens.
Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns. Of course, information security is just one a…
Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns. Of course, information security is just one a…
Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns. Of course, information security is just one a…
Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns. Of course, information security is just one a…
This one started a couple days ago, with a straightforward Tweet-query from Dave Gray: davegray: “Strategy is design.” Agree or disagree? Why? What followed was, for me, one of the best back-and-forth Twitter-conversations in recent weeks: nickmalik: @davegray design is a method. Strategy is a result. Fair to say good strategy may result from design, […]
In my last post I wrote about the Open Group TOGAF and SABSA integration announcement. This shows both a real sense of partnership with leading industry bodies and it seems like a step in the right direction to advance the…
The Open Group announced last month the release of the TOGAF & SABSA Integration Whitepaper, a new guide developed in collaboration with The SABSA Institute to enable enterprise and security architects to integrate security and risk management approaches into enterprise-level…
How is it that what we actually do in the heat of the action can differ so much from the intentions and decisions we set beforehand? How can we bring them into better alignment, so that we do ‘keep to the plan’, at the individual level, and across the enterprise? And once again, what implications does […]
What happens when someone gets confused about the nature of different types of assets? Short answer: they try to treat everything as ‘possessions’ – and that’s when the lawyers have a field-day… A great example of this is described in a BBC article (pointed to by LinkedIn), ‘Man sued for keeping company Twitter followers‘ (27-dec-2011). […]
The mistake of the many Raising a host of all employees and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the Enterprise. The daily expenditure will easily surmount that which can ever be gained. There will be commotion in the organization and the network, and men […]