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A great one-liner by enterprise-architect Jon Ayre: RT @EnterprisingA: Comparing #itarch with #entarch is like comparing your cooker with your house. Your cooker helps you to eat but your house is where you live It reminds me of the key tag-line…
I asked our teams in the IT Department at the American University of Sharjah to put together a short presentation to help me get to know the team members and to understand what their operational and project responsibilities are. In some cases, the teams worked on an integrated platform (suite) with the majority of the […]
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A couple of days ago a tweet flew by which deserved closer attention:Questions to ask about any method or approach: Who invented it? What problem one tried to solve? Do I have that problem? In the interaction with the author it became (once again) obvi…
With travel budgets tight, we know Barcelona is hard to get to for many of our Open Group members. As such, The Open Group will be Livestreaming some of our sessions on Monday, Oct. 22. Continue reading →
I had a great time at the BCS-EA 2012 conference in London yesterday. I’ll write up a proper summary later today, but for now, here are the slidedeck and accompanying worksheet that I uploaded to Slideshare. Slidedeck: Lessons-learnt in EA…
There’s been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of Cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies. To find out why, The Open Group recently gathered an international panel of experts to explore the concept. Continue reading →
Why, oh why, didn’t I come up this point:
“Organizations that capitalize on big data stand apart [because] they pay attention to data flows as opposed to data stocks.”
I highlight this concept, and the source article, in this week’s active information post: Shifting from data stockpiles to flows, thats the… – Input Output.
Last week, OpenText participated in DIA’s EDM and ERS/eCTD conference in Baltimore and what a great event it was! This hybrid conference combined related disciplines to focus holistically on “The Content Continuum from Document Authoring through Submission Delivery” which proved to be highly informative. There were multiple presentations by FDA providing updates on the new […]
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Significant touchstones, at least for some people, some of the time, the series of hype cycle devices published annually by Gartner inform and guide industry behaviours, lead and shape the formulation of strategy. Three features of the current enterprise architecture hype cycle1 are noteworthy, or thought-provoking, or self-evident: Whole-of-Government enterprise architecture has been cancelled due […]
One of the most important lessons that I’ve learned from my Microsoft career was the importance of a personal brand. It helped me tremendously while I was at the company. It both served me well inside and outside the company…
Enterprise architects need to be good communicators.
Actioning instead of doing. Impacting instead of affecting. Progress instead of continue. Moving forward and incentivising with respect to the upside.
It is easy to see that the cliches and jargon of today’s office culture are all about giving the impression of mastery, energy and success.
They don’t.
If you really wish to convey intelligence and competence, speak and write in plain English.
This morning I was part of a panel at the GigaOM Structure:Europe 2012 conference in Amsterdam., titled: The Evolution of Private PaaS solutions. The abstract: Enterprises are starting to take interest in running PaaS solutions virtually, as app developers want to focus on building apps rather than dealing with infrastructure issues. Enterprises that use PaaS solutions almost always go down the private route. In this session we focus on private.
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