The future of work, and money
Seems lots of people these days are writing about ‘the future of work’ – and even putting some of that thinking into practice, too. But is that thinking going anything like deep enough? Hmm… – not sure about that… So…
Future Ideas: harnessing worldwide innovative power
The Future Ideas Worldwide Academic Competition is a great way for students and graduates to submit their innovative ideas to a large audience and have the opportunity to win a mentorship from a great mind in their field of study. Its six them…
Why digitalisation fails!
We are told over and over that it is time for digitalisation of all areas of business, ideally also of all the private areas. Often this is sold in just having only benefits. We already know that for privacy reasons in the private area it may not be the best idea, however in business we … Continue reading Why digitalisation fails! →
How do we assess strategy?
We often talk about strategy but, how do we know if strategy does what it should?
Strategy is taken, usually, as both what we are aiming for and how are we getting there.
What we are aiming for, i.e. the goals have to be assessed first fo…
Business Architecture is Critical for Organizations that Predate the Digital Economy
Organizations that predate the digital economy need to architect themselves to flourish in it. According to the The MIT Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR), they (more…)
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Enterprise Architecture and Systems Thinking – by Ian Glossop
Enterprise Architecture is a young, immature discipline that produces models to guide the development of an enterprise. It is generally recognised to date back to the late 1980s or early 1990s and the work of Zachman, Spewak and others though it really took-off in the late 1990s and early years of the 21st Century. But methodological disciplines do not emerge complete […]
Smart use of Data: how to design a supply chain and use it properly!
If we look at current IT-trends it is easy to say everybody has heard of Big Data. Although there are some known successes (for example US retailer Target which through its extensive data could predict pregnancy faster than the involved person) many compiling companies spend millions (or even billions) of dollars hoarding big data, without properly using it at all. According to Gartner, 85% of Fortune 500 organizations won’t be able to exploit their big data usefully in 2015. Now the key to using data at all, is knowing that you don’t necessarily need all data. As long as you know which data can be useful to your company – and maybe even more important – WHERE it is useful within your company, you don’t need to spend half of your budget on stacking information.
The Microservices Pattern
For those of us that have been practicing SOA for over a decade, it’s surprising that there’s so much interest in microservices. In fairness microservices don’t look like the vendor play that was early SOA in the early noughties. But experienced SOA pr…
The Microservices Pattern
For those of us that have been practicing SOA for over a decade, it’s surprising that there’s so much interest in microservices. In fairness microservices don’t look like the vendor play that was early SOA in the early noughties. But experienced SOA pr…
The hype to end all hypes :-)
When I think of diversity usually I think of HR and long awareness meetings and a realisation that a heterogenous environment helps everyone, however diversity goes beyond this. Now before I talk about the new hype that is built on diversity I want to focus a bit on the ever existing tension between diversity and … Continue reading The hype to end all hypes 🙂 →
About analysis of ArchiMate models
A while back, I wrote in the blog post ArchiMate is overrated (and underrated) that using ArchiMate doesn’t really have that much added value for communicating simple, high-level views to stakeholders (users, management), but its structure does bring advantages that enables us to … Continue reading →
Building Blocks in Enterprise Architecture
This article by Selvyn Wright provides a good explanation about the use of Building Blocks in EA: http://www.irmuk.co.uk/articles/Selvyn_Wright_%20Building_Blocks.pdf?
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