Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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…
One of the fundamental questions of Enterprise Architecture is how to measure the value of the enterprise architecture program. Then again is Enterprise Architecture a program or a business function, I my opinion it can be both. I have investigated how Enterprise Architecture contribute to the enterprise with value but also how the value can […]
Following my recent blog on the topic of Cloud Hype, there have been some further interesting views being expressed in the popular IT media. For instance the latest CIO magazine debate dedicated to the similar topic is generating thoughts along similar…
“I am really getting tired of this Cloud Hype!” said a senior IT executive of a large, multi-national organisation. We were sitting in his freshly painted offices in London and going over his mid-term technology roadmap. It was a typical cold, cloudy…
So how will you describe the relationship between Social Networking and E-Mail? Marriage made truly in heaven or this is one of those affairs which were always destined to be short-lived? If analysts at Gartner are to be believed then the Social-Networ…
This blog post is based on the guest lecture that Chris Potts performed at the course B30 Enterprise Strategy, Business and Technology at the IT University of Copenhagen the 25th of October 2010. It is growing sense around the world that Enterprise Architecture is dealing with more than IT; however since the concept’s origin from […]
I just love the folks at Google! I really do. You know why? Because they never stop reinventing what the company stands for. If it was a typical tech start-up company then they would be satisfied after reinventing search and then controll…
So what we long suspected is now official – Google’s Android is projected to overtake it’s more popular rivals iPhone and Blackberry in coming years. There are more and more exciting phones being launched using Google’s platform – see for instance the …
So where do you go from the position of being the most successful chip maker in the industry? What do you do to evolve your business and revenue model? Well how about buying an antivirus company (sorry! security technology company)? Sounds bizarre? Wel…
Jim Peters, CTO at SITA wrote an interesting blog a few days back – though it started off with an Intel announcement, Jim was really commenting on increasing demand for computing power. I posted the following comment to his blog post.In a sense the bus…
The Cloud offering space is getting rather busy as we expected this summer. Capgemini annoucement of “Immediate” and its pilot with Royal Mail, closely follows other major developments such as IBM’s acquisition of Cast Iron. While IBM claims to get bet…
Wave was supposed to be another jewel in the already crowded Google crown. Surely this next generation communication tool was going to join the ranks of ultra-successful Search, super-popular Mail and upcoming star Android. When Google announced this a…