10 Signs You’re Not REALLY a Director of IT
Title inflation/mis-direction is vermicious. Like a Knid.
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A Capabilities-based Architecture
As technology architecture professionals, we can only be successful and valuable to those who pay us if we frame our work in terms of capabilities at the outset. If we start with details, we’ll ultimately fail.
The Cloud “Through a Glass, Darkly”
The ability to transform business is the most exciting feature of the Cloud phenomenon, but users currently see it “through a glass darkly,” and perhaps with a measure of faith and hope. More needs to be done to develop understanding of the business …
IT Made Simple
What would it take for your business to view IT as a valuable, essential partner instead of an annoying cost-center that they’re forced to deal with? Wouldn’t that be better for you and better for them?
The Open Group Conference, London: An open environment for challenging times
As the IT media is dominated by stories on Cloud and cyber-security, it will be refreshing to debate these in an open environment at The Open Group Conference, London, and discuss the many challenges we all face in navigating an increasingly complex IT…
Giving EA the much-needed business slant: some thoughts
For EA to earn its glorious position of the overall enterprise-wide architecture management function, it needs business embracement. What are some of the areas where EA can focus on giving the business flavor? Continue reading →
Nogility
Large technology organizations don’t simply become agile. They’re either agile or not. If they’re not, the path to being so is via change, often radical change at that.
The Open Group Events in Arabia and India
Specific to IT security, the world is indeed flat, and the threats being faced as well as the security concerns and approaches in India and UAE mirror those in the US, Europe, and elsewhere. Continue reading →
Is The CIO Necessary?
The purpose of a company is to make money and to make that money while somehow imparting a positive effect to its customers. Can IT enable the business without a clearly laid out Vision? Without that sense of purpose, doesn’t IT typically make a mosh o…
Enterprise IT’s Inflection Point!
Of late, the online media is flooded with plenty of articles/opinions on the future of Enterprise IT and CIO roles in next decades. Why do we see such futuristic, inspirational, transformational viewpoints doing the rounds these days? I strongly believ…
Troux 2011: Delivering Business Value with Enterprise Architecture
This presentation was given by Richard J. Reese, VP of Enterprise Architecture for Discover Financial Services. He started by showing some of the Discover “Peggy” commercials (look them up on YouTube, they’re pretty funny) and emphasized that Discover is known for their cash back programs and their customer service. EA resource allocation at Discover is […]
PODCAST: Examining the current state of Enterprise Architecture with The Open Group’s Steve Nunn
Listen to our recorded podcast on the current state of EA, or read the transcript. The podcast was recorded by Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions at The Open Group Conference, San Diego 2011. Continue reading →