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Last week, someone asked me how I go about producing a data model. I found out afterwards that my answer was considered too brief. So here’s a longer version of my answer.The first thing to consider is the purpose of the modelling. Sometimes there is a…
Its the most natural thing in the world to want to promise things to customers to keep them happy. This blog discusses the dangers of that. Continue reading →
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On September 11, 2019 I finally obtained my PhD for my thesis “Improving IT Decisions with Enterprise Architecture”. You can find my thesis here. The summary: One of the often mentioned applications of enterprise architecture (EA) is decision-making support. EA … Continue reading →
Introduction: In this article, we talk to Wolfgang Goebl, founder…
The US Air Force-hosted The Open Group FACE™ & SOSA™ Expo and Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) event was held on September 17, 2019 in Dayton, Ohio at the Dayton Convention Center.
One of the biggest challenges in making Enterprise Architecture successful is ensuring proper communication with business stakeholders. Enterprise Architecture is quite often perceived as a discipline of the IT organization (where unfortunately also ma…
The Open Group IT4IT™ Reference Architecture, a standard of The Open Group uses a value chain framework that applies this concept to IT by defining an integrated IT management framework focusing on the lifecycle of services. This allows IT to achieve the same level of business predictability and efficiency that supply chain management has allowed for the business.
In fiction, servants cough discreetly to make people aware of their presence. (I’m thinking of P.G. Wodehouse, but there must be other examples.)Technological devices sometimes call our attention to themselves for various reasons. John Ehrenfeld calls …
The Open Group IT4IT™ Reference Architecture, a standard of The Open Group, is a value chain-based standard reference and operating model for managing the business of IT. It creates a model of the functions that IT performs to help organizations identify the activities that contribute to business competitiveness.
It supports real-world use-cases driven by the Digital Economy such as, Cloud-sourcing, Agile, DevOps, and service brokering, and is designed for existing landscapes, and accommodates future IT paradigms, making it ideal for Digital Transformation projects.
Diversion has various different meanings in the world of ethics.Distraction. An idea or activity serves as a distraction from what’s important. For example, @juliapowles uses the term “captivating diversion” to refer to ethicists becoming preoccupied w…
Cutter Consortium has been conducting a survey to gain insight into how organizations are adopting CX management practices and technologies and what they see as the possible impacts on their businesses. Senior Consultant Curt Hall has been analyzing the data and interviewing leaders and practitioners who are implementing, or working to implement, CX practices and technologies. Their Read more
What are the ethics of diverting people from smoking to vaping?On the one hand, we have the following argument.E-cigarettes (“vaping”) offer a plausible substitute for smoking cigarettes.Smoking is dangerous, and vaping is probably much less dangerous….