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.
Technology
Microsoft’s $8.5bn Catch-up Gamble
Microsoft today announced that it will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. Skype has 663 million people across the world registered to use its voice-over-inter…
Microsoft’s $8.5bn Catch-up Gamble
Microsoft today announced that it will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. Skype has 663 million people across the world registered to use its voice-over-inter…
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?
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.
It's Official – Google now is part of the Travel Ecosystem
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It is now official! Google is now set to become an integral part of the Travel Ecosystem! The Department of Justice on Friday, 8 April cleared the Google acquisition of ITA Software. I have b…
It’s Official – Google now is part of the Travel Ecosystem
Image courtesy and copyright ITA
It is now official! Google is now set to become an integral part of the Travel Ecosystem! The Department of Justice on Friday, 8 April cleared the Google acquisition of ITA Software. I ha…
Cloud Technology is now Music to Our Ears – New Cloud Media Service from Amazon
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Earlier this week Amazon launched new cloud based consumer service called the “Cloud Drive” accompanied by media player titled “Cloud Player”. Together they offer consumers an ability to store, upload, listen and d…
The Shrinking Book Ecosystem – The Cost of iPad and Kindle Success
With ever increasing popularity and acceptance of tablets, ebook readers etc. it is little surprise that the traditional form of paper books and it’s ecosystem is coming under immense pressure to survive and remain profitable. How long will the paper b…
Why IBM is Right about HP Strategy
HP Chief Executive Officer Léo Apotheker recently outlined new corporate strategy which fundamentally changes the roadmap for HP as we have known it. Some analysts are calling it a “seismic shift”. I am not sure I will use those words in light …
The Retail Reference Architecture
The concept of “reference architecture” is often misunderstood and gets associated with IT. While the implementation may very well be IT, the reference architecture essentially is a business and operational artefact. As RUP defines, “the referenc…
Where Enterprise Architecture and Project Management Intersect
My long-term readers know that I function as an enterprise architect and project manager (but not both simultaneously) and that I have taught (and continue to teach) project management courses at the university level for over 10 years. Over the…