Making Enterprise Apps Mindful

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Guest post by Lindsey Jarrell As a CIO, you’re probably familiar with the term workflow, but what about mindflow? Mindflows are the steps we undergo to sift through information and arrive at a difficult decision. Comparing, evaluating, and summarizing leads us down a twisting, turning journey toward a final outcome. In the past, it’s been difficult to design enterprise apps that can support knowledge workers in this convoluted process. Now, that’s changing. We’ve spent years […]

IT Is Complex, Not Unmanageable

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The information and communications technology (ICT) world is constantly evolving in complexity. As computational technology advances, it allows for the building of more capable systems, architectures, and solutions. We’ve added so much agility to the behavior of systems that many now consider them as complex adaptive systems, suspected of developing their own intelligence. I would …

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Wizard, in reverse

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Wandering through this perhaps-too-ancient town’s centre this weekend, I drift into the grubby not-quite mall that crowds around the now all-but-abandoned old Saxon church. And notice, there in the town’s one remaining video-store, that the relatively-recent Disney not-exactly-blockbuster Oz The Great…

Resolved?

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The Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO), a “worldwide association of professional organizations which have come together to provide a forum to standardize, professionalize, and otherwise advance the discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA)”, has announced and published their EA Perspectives White Paper, ”Common Perspective on Enterprise Architecture”. The Great Debate — what is enterprise architecture […]

LeanCoach. Measure – Brainstorm

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What is it?The Brainstorm technique is focused on generating as many ideas as possible in a group of people. At this time quantity and diversity are more important then the quality of ideas. Participants achieve this by first coming up with ideas indi…

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