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Just a short mention here: I’ve just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a … Continue reading →
This model is part of my toolbox for working with capability architectures. The Capability Inventory I know that there is certain ways of naming a capability and also that there are other principles that people and I promote that you should adhere to when designing your capability map. Here I’ve taken some liberties in regards to those […]
This model is part of my toolbox for working with capability architectures. The Capability Inventory I know that there is certain ways of naming a capability and also that there are other principles that people and I promote that you should adhere to when designing your capability map. Here I’ve taken some liberties in regards to those […]
How are you?
Busy? oh thats a shame.
That thing you are working on thats really really important? i’m sorry, its probably not.
That deadline that is causing you stress, its an arbitrary deadline and it isn’t important.
That last big project you worked on, think about all the things you did as part of it, How many of the things you worked so hard on was actually useful? hardly any.
Look back at the last year, count the number of things you did that were really important, be honest, did you have to use the fingers on your second hand?
Laziness isn’t a negative thing, laziness in its purest form is honesty, honesty with yourself about what is really important and what doesn’t matter.
“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all” – Drucker (Management guru and aphorism rich Philospher King of Laziness)
Busy is self-deception, protecting your ego and your self-importance.
Unless your job involves something akin to hacking coal out of a mine you don’t need to be busy, you need to be creative and for that you need focus and space and for that you need Lazy.
There are a fair few business-model patterns out there that look really great, really profitable – and yet conceal fundamental flaws that can kill the business outright. (Or, in some cases, it’s not just the business that gets killed… –…
Often when talking with fellow data architects I experience that many data architects have lost the basic modelling skills and are usually just deploying the same pattern over and over. That may be excusable for a developer, but not for an architect. So usually the first thing I see is that most data architects will … Continue reading On stupidity – Common Data Architecture →
A primary school in Essex has banned various “unhealthy” snacks from pupils’ lunchboxes. Teachers inspect pupils’ lunchboxes and confiscate banned items.The right-wing press is particularly aggrieved about the banning and confiscation of scotch eggs, w…
A primary school in Essex has banned various “unhealthy” snacks from pupils’ lunchboxes. Teachers inspect pupils’ lunchboxes and confiscate banned items.The right-wing press is particularly aggrieved about the banning and confiscation of scotch eggs, w…
By stopping EA deliberately, we disrupt EA at our own enterprise risk. EA is like a city map where we have to continually update the plans because of new constructions and roads, demolitions,expansion, repairs…
This June we’re celebrating our new product launch at BiZZdesign. We have exciting news to share about our new platform, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, as well as feature updates and new functionalities.
Suppose you are in a meeting. You, the Enterprise Architect of the EA Chess kind. You are aware of many complexities, uncertainties, hair-ball like integrations and other ‘technical debt’ in your landscape, and you don’t have the habit of underestimating … Continue reading →
Lately I was invited to a conference of executive business leaders where the conference was about Information as a weapon and that you should not deliver it in same way as you will not deliver a loaded guns that will be used to kill you. There are funny enough even several books on this that … Continue reading On Stupidity – Transparency →