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By The Open Group On Monday, April 20, Allen Brown, President & CEO of The Open Group, welcomed 150 attendees to the Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™ summit held at the Madrid Eurobuilding Hotel. Following are highlights from the plenary: The … Continue reading →
When I was new to architecture I was of the firm belief that all that went good in projects was due to it being architected and all that was bad was due to the facts that managers did not evolve an architect. Then quickly due to my critical mind I discovered that most great application … Continue reading Emergent Architectures →
McKinsey & Company reports that implementing a set of 24 best practices for “communicating, leading by example, engaging employees, and continuously improving” increases the odds of organizational transformation success from
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@sheldrake via @cybersal challenges Peter Drucker on the purpose of business.”Peter Drucker asserted that the purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. He was right at the time in offering previously inward-looking firms a more appropriat…
@sheldrake via @cybersal challenges Peter Drucker on the purpose of business.”Peter Drucker asserted that the purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. He was right at the time in offering previously inward-looking firms a more appropriat…
By Jim Hietala, VP, Business Development & Security, The Open Group Last fall, The Open Group Security Forum fielded its first IT Risk Management Survey in conjunction with the Society of Information Risk Analysts (SIRA) and CXOWARE The purpose of … Continue reading →
“You can’t feel that! You don’t feel that! You shouldn’t feel that! You have no right to feel that!” All of which stridently ignores the fact that we do indeed feel that… Let’s be clear about this: feelings are facts.…
Most architecture aims to enforce standards to achieve synergies. So instead of diversity we try to use the same tool over and over again. Usually this leads us to use tools for areas that they were never designed for. The other point is that over time an organisation is drained of knowledge of different methodologies. … Continue reading The tool trap →
In this blog I would like to demonstrate a way of using performance indicators to improve process performance, as I did in one of my projects. In a previous blog I explained what a performance indicator entails and presented some practical tips for using them. Now I would like to demonstrate the value of using PI’s in practice.
Large, complex landscapes are a pain. With hundreds of servers, hundreds of applications, thousands of users (and thus usage patterns) and a constant flux of small and large changes, few organisations are really in full control of what they actually … Continue reading →
A bright, sunny day – in Britain, no less! – though it’s the first day back to work after a very wet public-holiday weekend, so perhaps no real surprise there… But since it is sunny out there, my colleagues and I…
Without a Theory, EA cannot be a discipline.