What is a Digital Disruptor?

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In the short time it takes to develop an app, digital disruptors can force well-established companies to change the way they do business. Even worse, they can put them out of business all together. Who are these digital disruptors? How do they think? What drives them? How do they pull off the coups they do? Business and technology executives would be wise to dive inside the minds of digital disruptors to anticipate threats to their […]

Injecting Some Youth in Aging Applications: Insurance Case Study

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As I engage more with customers in the FSI space, I realize that many lack a comprehensive view of business performance. Most have been dependent on aging legacy systems that don’t integrate information across their business operations. Consequently, these companies do not have an end-to-end view of their customers and aren’t truly customer-centric.

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Business services versus capabilities

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Neither business service nor capability are unanimously defined and agreed so far.In the absence of sanctioned definitions, the subject is then open to interpretation until an wide agreement is reached.  Nevertheless, employing common sense m…

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My Personal Toolbox

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I wrote about my conversion to a Mac back in November of 2010 from my sad, pathetic existence on a Windows-based machine. I’m on my second MacBook — a MacBook Air — and I couldn’t be happier. I wanted to share some of the tools I use on a regular basis with some repeated content from that original post. […]

Shoshin – The Beginner’s Mind and Exercise

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Over the last 4-6 weeks I’ve been able to establish some kind of an exercise routine in my life. Its nothing earth-shattering. I’m up early first thing in the morning at my hotel and spend 20-30 minutes either on the treadmill or the elliptical. I’m usually jamming to the rougher Rdio playlists I have on […]

Intersection and branding

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I’m reading a great new book called Intersection: How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap Between Business, Technology, and People by Milan Guenther The book discusses modern Enterprise Architecture perspectives like the Outside In approach and provides a holistic design lead approach that is focus more on the customer than on the underlying applications, technology and infrastructure. […]

Database Rationalization: The Amazing Results

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In part 12 of “Memoirs of an Enterprise Architect” I discussed the IT Chargeback Model.  This week I will talk about Database Rationalization.
Does your organization have a good process around managing all of the databases running your business?
I…

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