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In part 13 of “Memoirs of an Enterprise Architect” I discussed Database Rationalization. This week I will talk about how to make strategic business decisions.
Do you feel like you have enough information to make critical strategic business decisi…
How can we make sure that our definitions actually link up properly with the context they purport to describe? How can we test our definitions for validity and meaningfulness in the respective context? Perhaps rather too often, amidst those endless…
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 […]
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Eric’s analogy about interface and application (see comments for the previous post, Business services versus capabilities) maybe of wider interest and hence, this post.Application may not be the best example though because it would reduce the scop…
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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The post wraps up the Road Map series by publishing the results to share with all interested stakeholders impacted by the program as planned. This completes a description of a time tested methods to develop, refine, and deliver a professional roadmap to produce consistent repeatable results.
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…
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. […]
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 […]
So, how many times have we heard this, or had the urge to do this – “Lets document every process, every integration, every data element, every server, every patch, every everything – so we have a clear view of the current state. After all, don’t we nee…
So, how many times have we heard this, or had the urge to do this – “Lets document every process, every integration, every data element, every server, every patch, every everything – so we have a clear view of the current state. After all, don’t we nee…
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. […]