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9 years, 6 months ago

On The CIO’s Top Challenges

by Chris Lockhart

There are many challenges that CIO’s are facing in today’s cloudy, jargony, swirling maelstrom of Information Technology. But isn’t there something missing in the conversation that totally supersedes these challenges?

Categories business, business problem, Business vs IT, challenges, CIO, IT, IT in General, Roles, Short and Sweet, Technology, Tools, Unconventional, vendors
9 years, 6 months ago

Architecture is Not: A White Paper

by Chris Lockhart

An architecture that is merely a PDF with a couple of generic line-box-arrow diagrams coupled with a few colorful “pancake” pictures isn’t really an architecture. It’s a marketing glossy. A white paper is too generic to be passed off as a real solution…

Categories Architecture, Architecture is Not, Short and Sweet, solutions
9 years, 9 months ago

10 Signs You’re Not REALLY a Director of IT

by Chris Lockhart

Title inflation/mis-direction is vermicious. Like a Knid.

Categories Architecture, experience, Governance, IT, IT in General, management, Short and Sweet, Unconventional
9 years, 10 months ago

Architecture is Not: A Proof of Concept

by Chris Lockhart

An architecture for a solution requires understanding the problem at hand well enough that solving it can be described in terms that everyone understands. The architect speaks in terms of capabilities, not products.

Categories Architecture, Architecture is Not, business, business problem, capabilities, Enterprise Architects, gonkulator, IT in General, objectives, Short and Sweet
9 years, 11 months ago

Is The CIO Necessary?

by Chris Lockhart

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…

Categories Business vs IT, CIO, CTO, failure, goals, IT, IT in General, mission, objectives, Rhetorical Questions, Short and Sweet, technologists Tags vision
9 years, 11 months ago

Architecture is Not: a Vendor Product

by Chris Lockhart

Architecture is about holistically describing the system of people, process and technology. It can be abstract and conceptual, or it can be concrete and detailed. But it is never merely a specific product set from a specific vendor.

Categories Architecture is Not, Architecture vs Development, Business vs IT, IT in General, Metrics, Short and Sweet, Unconventional

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