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In enterprise change environments – be they driven by architecture, process improvement, supply chain transformation, or any other kind of organisational change – we often focus on capabilities. As an example: “Business capability” is the ability for the organisation to perform a certain function, process, or service in order to serve a particular market, client, …read more
Can Social Media create new ideas? Here’s an example where the answer is “yes.”
I recently blogged about EA models, and what makes them interesting. I was thinking about providing insight to people who were in the mo…
Most of us look upon committees with the same level of anticipation and admiration as a dental exam. We accept that they are necessary, but could easily do with out the picking, flossing, or emotional preparation.
We’ve recently undergone a signific…
Most of us look upon committees with the same level of anticipation and admiration as a dental exam. We accept that they are necessary, but could easily do with out the picking, flossing, or emotional preparation.
We’ve recently undergone a signific…
Which way forward for enterprise-architecture? It’s common to think of enterprise-architecture (EA) as a discipline that’s mainly about getting the best use of the organisation’s IT. Yet whilst, yes, most job-descriptions for EA these days will still revolve around some…
(The previous post, ‘The science of enterprise-architecture‘, covered a lot of ground, but ended up kinda long – again… So for those with tendencies towards TL;DR, here’s a somewhat shorter version. ) How much is enterprise-architecture a science? To put…
The EA Voices Apps have been updated. The Android version is now in Google Play, and should flag up if you already have it installed. The iOS version is being reviewed by Apple now; this may well take a while. The new version has a new look and feel, as seen to the right. The main design […]
TOGAF stands for The Open Group Architecture Framework. It is an open standard for Enterprise Architecture that is used by many organiations invarious industries worldwide. It is an elaborate and complete standard. In anothe recording we have outlined…
Context is everything! Well, maybe not everything, but definitely more important than most like to admit. It is much easier to think that we can craft a strategy so powerful, create a model so logical, design a process so efficient that everyone will see the brilliance in our methods and follow us to the ends […]
Another on G.E.’s Industrial Internet:
“The executive in charge of the project for G.E. also said that by next year almost all equipment made by the company will have sensors and Big Data software.
“Everyone wants prediction about performance, and better asset management,” said William Ruh, vice president of global software at G.E. “The ideas of speed, of information velocity, is what will differentiate the winners from the losers.”
“The so-called Industrial Internet involves putting different kinds of sensors, sometimes by the thousands, in machines and the places they work, then remotely monitoring performance to maximize profitability.”
Source: NYTimes
via Diigo
I think I’d enjoy Jet Engine school way more, now:
“A few years back, after an internal audit of their vast and various business holdings, the folks at General Electric made something of a discovery: Their company was roughly the fourteenth biggest software maker in the world. They’d never really thought of themselves as a software company–all that coding was being done by developers hidden in silos within other silos in the corporate structure–but they figured maybe it was time to start.
So in June 2011, the company hired designer Greg Petroff and put him in charge of user experience for the whole shebang. His first project was an ambitious one: creating a system that will bring all of GE’s industrial machines, from wind turbines to hospital hardware to jet engines, onto one cloud-connected, contextually-aware, super-efficient platform.”
Source Link: Wired
via Diigo
“By the end of this year, GM plans to extend a Web-based application, called Shop-Click-Drive, to its entire dealer network. The app would let new-car buyers use their computer screen to lock in the price of a new car, get an estimate of the trade-in value of their old car, apply for financing and even arrange a test drive or delivery of their new vehicle.
GM’s app acts as an electronic door to its independent brick-and-mortar dealers, and so represents a cautious step toward adapting to consumers whose experience with online shopping for appliances and other goods has made them less willing to visit showrooms.”