The Open Group San Francisco 2016 Day Two Highlights

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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Communications, The Open Group The Open Group CEO & President Steve Nunn kicked off the second day of The Open Group San Francisco event, “Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™”, with a warm greeting and quick … Continue reading →

Test Driven Strategy

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Most strategies are crap. Most business plans are crap. I have read lots of them. I’ve also developed my fair share (which are obviously much much less crap than the norm :).

Its tempting to think in ‘this ever-changing world in which we live in’ that strategy and the process of strategy development is dead, that there is only tactics. I don’t think that is true, but i think the method of developing strategy needs a kick up the arse.

What is strategy today?:

– Group-think

– Ego-massage (We pay X a lot of money and X wants to do Y)

– Meme copying (hat-tip Simon Wardley)

– Baseless ‘We will’ statements

– Financial cases that prize cost over value

– Complete lack of context

– Little bearing on day to day activity that is undertaken

What should strategy be?:

– Visceral

– Exciting and Scary

– a compelling story

– Contextual

– Lived

– Ironic (in the ‘liberal ironist’ sense) 

– Testable

I think this last point is where the first kick in the arse can focus. I think there are things we can learn from ‘Lean startup’, that still aren’t applied to the majority of strategy development. Once i’ve got my thoughts developed on this i’ll share more.

IoT + Cognitive Computing :- Interoperability + Clinical Knowledge Management – Clinical Care Transformation

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Clinical Tacit Knowledge – Represents Clinical Pathways Interoperability Health ecosystem includes Clinical Integration Network (CIN) Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) To achieve efficacy in Clinical Care, it means a design strategy around Clinical Care Redesign. The outcomes is Tacit Knowledge (Clinical Pathways) driven improvement in the overarching architecture involving PCMH, CI, […]

The Open Group San Francisco 2016 Day One Highlights

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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Communications, The Open Group On Monday, January 25, The Open Group kicked off its first event of 2016, focused on Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™, at the Marriott Union Square in the city by the … Continue reading →

The Business of IT – Customers, Clients, and Fit for Purpose

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Over the past few months, I have touched on a variety of what might seem to be disparate topics: the need for architects (or at least architectural design), estimates, organizations as systems/enterprise architecture, customer-centricity, and IT management and governance. I suspect the trend will continue for a while, so it’s time for a post to […]

Emergent or Directed

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Do we need to manage architectural evolution?Do we need to consider different forms of EA practice to handle architectures that emerge, rather than ones that we directly control? Find out more in my latest post on the Cutter Blog: Emergent or Directed – do we need to manage Architectural Evolution? You might also find some of my…

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Transitioning to Customer-Driven Architectures: A Conversation with Trevor Cheung

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By The Open Group Digitalization is driving massive changes across the IT landscape. To adapt to the changes brought about by new technologies, organizations are beginning to move away from traditional IT-centric architectures to new customer-driven ones. By aligning business … Continue reading →