Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
My engineering background encourages me automate processes. My architect experience encourages me to find patterns and model relationships. My operations experience forces to me to continuously look for ways to institutionalize efficiencies. My busines…
As you may have heard, Forbes magazine published their America’s Top 25 Most Inspiring Companies last week, and Microsoft was awarded the #1 spot. Pretty cool. Also interesting was this statement “This survey highlights the fact that when a company embarks on an inspiring mission, it’s employees become inspired by their work and that makes…
Business is complex. Gone are the years of simplicity in business operations. Exponential growth and change in regulations, globalization, distributed operations, changing processes, competitive velocity, business relationships, disruptive technology, legacy technology, and business data encumbers organizations of all sizes. Business … Continue reading →
Still somewhat in catch-up mode, but seems like this’d be the right time to summarise a few ideas that have come up in recent months on the SCAN framework for sensemaking and decision-making. First of these is a simple cross-map…
On 2 October 2013, the Open Group ran one of its occasional ‘TweetJam’ Twitter-discussions – also known as an #ogChat. This time it was on digital disruption – disruption to existing business-models, typically (but, as we will see, not only) by … Continue reading →
My engineering background encourages me automate processes. My architect experience encourages me to find patterns and model relationships. My operations experience forces to me to continuously look for ways to institutionalize efficiencies. My business management experience reminds me that it’s all about organizing people and initiatives to achieve strategy through building environments for people to…
What can we do about the NHS – the UK’s National Health Service? Costs are spiralling, its IT failures are internationally infamous, and after several horrendous scandals, morale is at an all-time low. The British government knows exactly what to…
Some time ago, at a UCISA Enterprise Architecture event, I discussed whether we needed a workshop for Higher Education (HE) sector technical architects to get together and share knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Whilst enthusiastic, colleagues expressed concern at the time that possibly the sector was too immature in this area for any individuals […]
Some time ago, at a UCISA Enterprise Architecture event, I discussed whether we needed a workshop for Higher Education (HE) sector technical architects to get together and share knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Whilst enthusiastic, colleagues expressed concern at the time that possibly the sector was too immature in this area for any individuals […]
By Terence Blevins, Portfolio Manager, The MITRE Corporation The following are simple communication messages responding to two high level questions; what messages are useful when trying to get a company to decide on engaging in a standards effort, and next, … Continue reading →
Everything flows from vision
Actionable tips
Drawing on many techniques
Staying organized is getting harder and harder as emerging and disruptive technologies continue to derail our concentration every minute of every day. Our brains can only hold so much, so it’s not a surprise that in today’s technology-driven world we find ourselves misplacing items, forgetting lunch dates, not returning phone calls – the list goes on and on. We simply have too much stimuli.
Just for Fun: Count the number of email pings that interrupt you while you read this. Count the IMs and / or text messages. What about those distracting pop-ups or animated gifs from other sites that might be open. And, that doesn’t even consider social media, mobile apps, and the like. Keep a rough tally, just for some perspective.
Luckily simple to complex workarounds exist to keep us on task. Close your email client for a designated amount of time. Turn your mobile to silent and flip it over (it only hurts for a minute). Close your web browser, your IM, and any other applications that make noise or pop up.
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