EA is Strategic Planning

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Enterprise Architecture quite simply is all about Strategic Planning. It helps enterprises shape their future structure and dynamics in the face of the changing environment in which they do business. Its purpose is to understand the ends and means that form the strategies needed. How does an enterprise react to events that do and will […]

Link Collection — January 20, 2013

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  • Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker

    Excellent article on using data to provide an unusual window into healthcare, and how to improve it.

    “Besides looking at assault patterns, he began studying patterns in the way patients flowed into and out of Camden’s hospitals. “I’d just sit there and play with the data for hours,” he says, and the more he played the more he found. For instance, he ran the data on the locations where ambulances picked up patients with fall injuries, and discovered that a single building in central Camden sent more people to the hospital with serious falls—fifty-seven elderly in two years—than any other in the city, resulting in almost three million dollars in health-care bills. “It was just this amazing window into the health-care delivery system,” he says.”

    tags: healthcare datascience newyorker

  • Solving the Wanamaker problem for health care – O’Reilly Radar

    Good article by Tim O’Reilly, et al. Broad coverage of healthcare issues and opportunities with data science.
     
    “How is data science transforming health care? There are many ways in which health care is changing, and needs to change. We’re focusing on one particular issue: the problem Wanamaker described when talking about his advertising. How do you make sure you’re spending money effectively? Is it possible to know what will work in advance?”

    tags: healthcare datascience O’Reilly

  • Why IT Fumbles Analytics – Harvard Business Review

    This is an excellent article. Calls out the different thinking and actions required for analytics success. Despite the title, this is not an IT bashing article.

    “In their quest to extract insights from the massive amounts of data now available from internal and external sources, many companies are spending heavily on IT tools and hiring data scientists. Yet most are struggling to achieve a worthwhile return. That’s because they treat their big data and analytics projects the same way they treat all IT projects, not realizing that the two are completely different animals”.

    tags: hbr analytics bigdata

  • Disruptions: Design Is Driving Technology Forward – NYTimes.com

    “We’re on the tail end of technology being special,” says John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design. “The automobile was a weird alien technology when it first debuted, then, after a while, it evolved and designers stepped in to add value to it.”

    …“We have this exciting next step for design,” he said. “Now that we have enough technology to do anything, design can now begin to be better than the technology itself.”

    tags: technology design maeda

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Culture club

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To set my thoughts in perspective I came up with the “brilliant” idea of describing what I think of as designing The Happy People Business. This is part two in an expanding series of posts where I’ll elaborate on this topic. The Manifest One could call this the story of the architecture or one could […]

Why You – Yes YOU – Need a Vision

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You need a vision for your organization. Not some marketing jingle for your clients and stakeholders but a clear and meaningful view of where you want your organization to go. A view that might be informed by your manager and clients, but not driven by them. When I ask middle and first level managers why […]

Why You – Yes YOU – Need a Vision

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You need a vision for your organization. Not some marketing jingle for your clients and stakeholders but a clear and meaningful view of where you want your organization to go. A view that might be informed by your manger and clients, but not driven by them. When I ask middle and first level managers why […]

Multi Lateral Cognition – Key Learning and Discerning Capability to Study Complex System

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Simple View Multi-Lateral View Music by Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart – they helped to reach our experience beyond known boundary conditions. Beethoven was deaf, he could not hear his own compositions. But then how did he create “ode to joy”… he believed god whispered to him…else how could he write the program for the composition […]