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Agility has become a key ability of enterprises. The pace at which customers require changes, at which new laws and regulations affect services and introduce processes, and the ease with which competitors can disrupt your business, as Google a…
Agilität ist zu einer wichtigen Fähigkeit der Unternehmen geworden. Das Tempo, bei dem die Kunden sich verändern, bei dem neue Gesetze und Verordnungen ihre Dienstleistungen und Prozesse beeinflussen und die Schnelligkeit, mit der Wettbewerber, wie Google und Apple, sie herausfordern, führt allzu oft zu einem enormen Druck auf das Unternehmen. Dabei kann sich der Druck in unterschiedlicher Art und Weise bemerkbar machen, wie zum Beispiel Druck sich schnell zu verändert, oder neue Technologien einzuführen, Wachstum zu generieren oder Kosten zu reduzieren. In Folge dessen ist die Agilität schlichtweg notwendig, um überhaupt mit ständigen Innovationen schnell auf dem Markt agieren zu können. Beides, Innovation und Flexibilität, sind für eine nachhaltige Positionierung am Markt notwendig.
By The Open Group The Open Group Healthcare Forum has published its first whitepaper, “Enhancing Health Information Exchange with the FHIM” which examines the Federal Health Information Model (FHIM) and its efforts to bring semantic interoperability to the Healthcare industry. … Continue reading →
A quick ‘Just so you know’, really, to pre-empt some possible future confusion. I gather from Dave Gray that Dave Snowden is launching a new product, designed to work in conjunction with Cognitive Edge‘s existing ‘SenseMaker’ toolset: RT @davegray: Very…
Enterprise-architecture is dead. As a term, anyway. Although it had been dying for quite a while, we do have some certainty now about when it died; we know how it died, and even why it died. And whilst some of us…
Bring your own device, bring your own technology, bring your own phone or IT consumerisation (respectively BYOD, BYOT, BYOP). Whatever you want to call it, anno 2015 everybody knows the concept of bringing your privately owned device to access company information and applications. This was thrown in high gear with the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, making it impossible to imagine a working world without the concept. However people stand divided regarding the effects of BYOD. In this blog we discuss the good, the bad & the ugly regarding BYOD – leading to the conclusion that it is all about a good BYOD strategy, policy and plan how things work out for your organization. As we always like to finish on a positive note we’ll start with the bad and the ugly and finish with the good.
I am a consultant and there are many areas where consultants form an important part in todays world. however in the following little article I will show you that consultants are part of a symptom of in inefficiency, but can in some cases also be used to heal that symptom, which may sound wrong as … Continue reading On Stupidity – Consultants →
In the previous post, Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns, I discussed the creation of reusable patterns to more effectively model large homogenous parts of the infrastructure landscape, or in other words: if you have 1000 identical RHEL servers, modelling the structure of … Continue reading →
How successfully does your organization implement strategic business change initiatives? A recent study[1] by the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed that only 56 percent of strategic initiatives meet the original goals and business intent. Advances in digital technology will continue to enable all kinds of new products and services and inspire innovative strategies, but will your
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Can anybody really own a part of the enterprise? What does ownership really mean? The business employs the term because there is a need for some body to be in charge of all issues related to an activity or aspect of the enterprise.
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I’d often wondered why I always seem to have such a visceral response to hearing a woman say “I don’t work, I’m only a mother”. What do you mean by “only”? – why would anyone deride it so? And what do…
Sharing knowledge and good practices is one of the core values of BiZZdesign. We regularly organize and contribute to online and offline seminars, conferences and round tables. Recently there was a very successful seminar on Enterprise Risk and Security Architecture for Dutch financial institutions. After presentations on “Security is not an IT problem” and the lacking relations between policies and measures in many organizations, we had a World Café on various topics. After reading this blog we would like you to your best and worst practices by reacting to this blog.