Time Part One – Posted Dec 31 2010

I fear that this is going to be a difficult post. But I feel so passionately about time that I will give it a go. What uses of Time do we need to think about. In some ways it’s pretty straightforward, there are instants and durations. But there is of…

What do you know and when did you know it?

In my Architect role at Sabre, I presented the following at theIATA Commercial conference in Istanbul.

“The Joined UP Airline”

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I am using two major themes today when discussing the notion of the joined up airline. The first harks back to t…

Next, Time for Change

I have not blogged much in the past 12-18 months, not only because of work and projects but also the availability of ‘instant gratification’ services such as Twitter, and to a degree, Facebook. I decided a few weeks ago to…

Misys CIO discusses the role of the CIO as a business leader, innovator, and enabler of growth

Microsoft was recently at Sibos, an event facilitated and organized by SWIFT, for the SWIFT community, which creates the stimulus for learning, collaborating, developing new business, defining future strategies and taking collective action that shapes the future of the Financial…

Creating a compelling visual story

One thing that I’ve become fascinated with over the past few years is the difference between people who have good ideas, and people who use good ideas to bring about change. I’m not alone to notice that the folks who originate a concept are usuall…

Reasons that business may come asking for “Enterprise Architecture”

This article could also be entitled "Reasons business may come asking for help, where enterprise architecture thinking and techniques can be applied (without mentioning EA)"

At the start of 2010 I was working on developing the "Enterprise Architecture" service offering for a consulting firm in Australia. As I thought through the development of this capability I started by considering the demand

The Language of Business

IT has spent a lot of time and money chasing the “language of business,” trying to nail it down, trying to find a way to communicate with those who don’t want to know about computers or software or even why you have both of those things in the f…

The Little Town of Busit

Once upon a time, there was a little town called Busit in a valley, deep in the mountains.  Through the middle of this valley ran the river Menatz. The valley was fertile and the farmers produced bountiful crops of grain, vegetables, and fruit.&#1…