The Onion & The Open Group Open Platform 3.0™

By Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant, KPN Consulting, and Co-Chair of The Open Group Open Platform 3.0™ The onion is widely used as an analogy for complex systems – from IT systems to mystical world views.       It’s … Continue reading

Do You Feel Safe?

  I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about organizations, culture, leadership, and performance. Recently I spoke at the ISM conference in Las Vegas on The Elusive High Performance Organization. (And they are very elusive.) I had the good fortune to hear a number of other people speak about talent management and career […]

On value-governance

What do I mean, when I talk about ‘value-governance’ in an enterprise-architecture sense? In Enterprise Canvas, what does that ‘Value Governance’ cell represent? What do its services actually do, for the service, the organisation and the overall enterprise? This one’s for

Find a Giant and Climb up their Back

Are you too old to be innovative? I don’t mean, are you able to figure things out like the TV remote, or the microwave, or email. I mean, are you too old to be truly innovative.A report by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) indicates that …

Find a Giant and Climb up their Back

Are you too old to be innovative? I don’t mean, are you able to figure things out like the TV remote, or the microwave, or email. I mean, are you too old to be truly innovative.

A report by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) indicates…

The Value Of Design Research

Calling enterprise designers and enterprise architects: Join us in Paris! Note that the deadline for abstracts is June 14, but full paper not due until October. And the conference is in April 2015. I am chairing track 24 and would love to see lots of submissions about enterprise design and enterprise architecture.  Please read the […]