Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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…
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 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…
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…
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 …