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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group On a crisp October Monday in London yesterday, The Open Group hosted the first day of its event at Central Methodist Hall, Westminster. Almost 200 attendees from 32 countries … Continue reading →
The advent of digital computers has brought a seemingly unending supply of innovations. Broadband communication to our homes and portable computers ranging from laptops to pocket-sized computers (aka, smartphones) make working anywhere 24/7 viable. This innovation also makes petabytes worth of cat videos available to most of the planet, but that is a topic for […]
Introduction
This is the second posting in our series on using ArchiMate in practice. The goal of this posting is to come to grips with the term “architecture model” and relate that to the use of ArchiMate. This is a tricky discussion: de…
For many professions, the question of benefits for clients and professionals or service providers versus the cost of implementation of a code of ethics should be first answered.
In the first place, an organisation to manage the code of ethics, members…
Understanding and acknowledging the capability of an enterprise to deliver satisfactorily its portfolio of goods and services to its customers, whether they be internal or external, is absolutely essential. Without sufficient insight, the spectre of over-promising and under-delivering, with all … Continue reading →
By Andras Szakal, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM U.S. Federal By 2015 there will be more than 5.6 billion personal devices in use around the world. Personal mobile computing, business systems, e-commerce, smart devices and social media are … Continue reading →
As we have pointed out in a previous blog, organizations need to develop a coherent business transformation management capability, which aligns the various disciplines involved in change along desired business outcomes. Few organizations have a system…
Ethics is about rules of behaviour in a community that minimise the negative impacts of your actions on your fellow citizens.
In machine-based symbolic processing, ambiguity is the original sin. However, as most legal documents demonstrate, language that tries to remove ambiguity quickly becomes unintelligible to people. Recently I downloaded a copy of Archi, a free tool for drawing architectural diagrams in the ArchiMate visual modelling language. It’s a well built little tool and it allowed […]
By Jim Hietala, VP, Security and Andrew Josey, Director of Standards, The Open Group This is the second in our blog series introducing the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge. In this blog, we provide 5 reasons why you should use … Continue reading →
What is a service-oriented architecture – particularly at a whole-of-enterprise scope? How do we describe relationships between services – particularly in the main value-flows? What happens within those service-interactions? This is the second in a six-part series on reviewing services…
Whether it’s new technology, new regulations, or new customer demands, companies often view complexity as something that is done to them. Accordingly, many executives think of complexity as an intrusion that requires a reaction. However, companies mastering complexity to their advantage are much more proactive. They make complexity a strategic decision with the goal of […]