Career Path – Management

Career Path for Management Roles There are three job descriptions in the management career path for our IT department.  The entry level position is Team Leader.  The Team Leader role has day to day operational responsibility for the services delivered by their team.  The role also has tactical responsibility for project resourcing and reports to […]

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Speaking at The HP Cincinnati Customer Forum

On Monday November 18th I will be giving the keynote presentation at the HP Customer Forum in Cincinnati. The theme of the event is the future of IT and what you need to prepare for it. HP calls this the…

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All I ask is to consider the impossible …

I was reading early this morning and ran across this quote from Henry Ford: “I am looking for a lot of men [and women] who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” It struck me that this nicely captures many of the conversations that we have around Phase One and the thought pattern that I would like to see happening more often around town.  There is […]

Collaborative Planning Methodology (CPM)

I think most can agree that enterprise architects have been getting more and more narrow in terms of the scope of planning that they touch.  In reality, executives and decision makers need a single complete plan of action.  They ask, “what do I need to do, how do I secure it, how much will it cost, and when can it be done?”  As enterprise architects have drifted away from solution […]

LeanCoach Define – Stakeholders analysis

What is it?The stakeholders analysis focuses on putting stakeholders on the map in a conscious way. Stakeholders are people or organizations that are (positively or negatively) influenced by or able to influence the project. By explicitly running a st…

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NZ Government Announces Desktop as a Service

Exciting news (for me anyway)! Last Friday, November 1 2013, the New Zealand Government Chief Information Officer (Colin MacDonald, Chief Executive of the Department of Internal Affairs) announced that the New Zealand government had negotiated contracts for the supply of Desktop as a Service (DaaS).  The service provides both virtual desktops (hosted and managed by […]

Enterprise Leverage

Focused Efforts Producing Significant ResultsEnterprise leverage occurs when a focused effort produces significant results for the enterprise and its strategy. How do Enterprise Architects help the CIO produce enterprise leverage? Enterprise Architecture (EA) has to go beyond simply improving operational efficiency, reducing costs and providing technical excellence. Here are my suggestions for how the EA role could…

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