The Open Group Executive Round Table Event at Mumbai

By Bala Peddigari, Head – HiTech TEG and Innovation Management, Tata Consultancy Services Limited The Open Group organized the Executive Round Table Event at Taj Lands End in Mumbai on November 12, 2014. The goal was to brief industry executives … Continue reading

Courses and Other Events

QualiWare Academy offers a range of courses and other events. Get an overview of these by clicking on Events in the top menu where-ever you are on our site. In this section, you can look up events after calendar, location, or poster. More events will be added as they are planned and announced. In 2015, we kicked off […]

To Liberate Healthcare Data, Dip into Data Lakes

Guest post by Randy Delgado The other day I was talking to a healthcare CIO about the trend of data liberation or what I like to call Open Data. Open Data is combining the abundance of external data with data from your own corporate systems to glean insights that will enable your company to grow, enhance operations and deflect disruption. I didn’t need to remind the healthcare executive how behind the trend she was. She […]

The 5 most known pitfalls for informed decision making

Everybody has experienced moments where they had to make a big or important decision, but without any form of guidance, help, or support. It’s a well-known fact that managers make many decisions based on gut feeling. For smaller decisions that may be right, but what about big(ger) strategic decisions? We can see that informed decision making is becoming a trend, dispelling gut-based decisions and incorporating tools and analytics to come to the best decision. However there is no holy grail and there are still some pitfalls/reasons for caution down the road regarding informed decision making.

Mastering Enterprise Investment

QualiWare Center of Excellence is pleased to offer a three-day certification course for Mastering Enterprise Investment. The course is given by Chris Potts. This intensive three-day course provides a comprehensive exploration of the strategy, key principles and techniques for success at Enterprise Investment. Through the powerful combination of Enterprise Architecture and Investment Portfolio Management into … Read more

Enterprise Canvas – a military analogy

I’ll admit I often struggle to find easy ways for people to understand Enterprise Canvas and service-oriented enterprise-architecture – thinking in terms of services doesn’t seem to come naturally to many people. But the other morning, up came one of

Shearing Layers – Part 3

In the previous Shearing Layers post, I was talking quite theoretically about the rate at which stores could change their layouts to suit some time period. E.g. changing seasonal merchandise, etc.How about we get even more radical. Perhaps we…

Enterprise Architecture communication: Lessons from ‘Louis from Gaal’

As a consultant at BiZZdesign, I help organizations in professionalizing their Enterprise Architecture practices. In these projects, I see architects struggling with ‘selling’ their products to their internal customers, often referred to as ‘the business’ (not as in “mind your own business”, a common response in architecture work).  The inability of convincing the business of the added value of architecture products can become a big frustration in organizations. Recently, I found some inspiration in football.

Improvation

New solo piano album by Roger EverndenI haven’t written much on this site in the last month because I’ve been focusing on one of my other passions – music. My latest album of solo piano music (called Improvation) is now out – and available on most digital music sites, such as Amazon, iTunes, or CDBaby.…

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