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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group The face of technology is evolving at breakneck speed, driven by demand from consumers and businesses alike for more robust, intuitive and integrated service offerings. APIs (application programming interfaces) … Continue reading →
Last week I presented a webinar entitled “Why Good Strategies Go Bad – And What You Can Do About It”. Here are the five major reasons strategies fail: Poor strategy articulation – Executives generally know what needs to be done, they are just not that good at articulating it, and for the most part […]
These days organizations operate in a dynamic and fast changing environment which makes formulating a consistent strategy a challenging task and executing that strategy even more difficult. More than half of organizations surveyed in previous economic studies indicated that they … Continue reading →
It is the enterprise strategy that matters rather than the business strategy alone. The enterprise strategy is the outcome of the harmonization of the management vision with the business functions’ strategies, including information technology and human…
Back by popular demand! If you missed this webinar last year join me as I share what Accelare has learned about the challenges almost every organization faces as they work toward implementing their strategies. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. Please forward to others you think might be interested. You […]
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Technical debt, in the enterprise architecture context, measures the departure of the current enterprise organization from the good practices of enterprise architecture.
The more exceptions to the good rules of practice, the …
The world around us is becoming more complex, it is almost accelerating away from us. Being able to plan in this ever evolving world is becoming even more difficult as time passes. New technology, and approaches almost appear daily, which makes planning for these events, almost impossible. Linear approaches to design are no longer the Read More
The SCAN framework describes sensemaking and decision-making in terms of four distinct ‘domains’, by convention labelled as Simple, Complicated, Ambiguous and Not-known. But what happens at the edges? (The domains themselves are fairly distinct, anyway, in the sense that viable…
Extracted from Re/Code “Big Tech Is Going Down” with my comments in brackets. “The pace and nature of change in the core underlying technologies, product development, selling models and buying […]
Top managment sets a vision. That is, a big picture they see the enterprise evolving to. But so (should) do the departments for their own functions. For instance, technology may have a vision. Human Resources may have one etc.
In doing EA one ha…
What is a strategy? How do we create a strategy? – rather than merely a delusion of ‘strategy’? Several of the folks in my Twitterstream – Gerold Kathan and Shawn Callahan, amongst others – pointed recently to a great HBR…