Agility within The Open Group

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What an exciting event in the city of Denver, Colorado the week of July 22, 2019! If you were at this conference you would probably have noticed the breadth and depth of work happening in The Open Group and, as well, noticed the impact it is having throughout various industries. A lot of really great stuff is going on thanks to those members working on real issues best addressed through collaboration! Kudos to the Members!!

One of the things I heard from some Members, expressed as a “potential” issue, was work being done that might be considered overlapping. Specifically referenced was TOGAF® Architecture Development Method, the Digital Practitioner Body of Knowledge™ (DPBok) Standard, and Snapshot of The Open Group Agile Architecture Framework™ Standard. After giving this some thought I felt compelled to present the optimistic view of this based on my experience with The Open Group over three decades!

Applications, work-instructions and business-continuity

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For business-continuity after disruption or failure, what’s the first thing we’ll need? Answer: an alternative way to do things. For business-process redesign, what’s the first thing we’ll need? Answer: an alternative way to do things. In both cases, we’ll need…

See you in September?

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Why not take a moment to visit the Cutter upcoming events page and get one or more of our terrific autumn events into your agenda? Explore the role disruptive technology plays when the innovation process diverges from what companies consider to be good business practices — and from individuals’ comfort zones.  Join Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Katia Passerini on September Read more

How to architect a digital business platform

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Organizations are modernizing their products offerings to include connected products. They’re using technology to connect their products to cloud environments. They’re instrumenting their products with sensors that feed real-time data to a machine-learning model in the cloud. These sensors are comparing current operation of products to best operation of them and feed back instructions on Read more

See you in September?

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Why not take a moment to visit the Cutter upcoming events page and get one or more of our terrific autumn events into your agenda?

A checklist for business-transformations

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What’s a key tool to help manage something as wide-ranging and complex as a business-transformation? Answer: a checklist. The following checklist for business-transformations is adapted from one that we use in our own work on transformation. A matching slidedeck with…