Going from just good enough to being great

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I recently saw a Forrester blog entry from George Colony at: http://blogs.forrester.com/george_colony/12-08-27-enterprise_architects_for_dummies_ceos And recently I’ve been reading an interesting book called Good to Great by James Collins. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great The Forrester blog talks about succeeding with realizing the business strategy by involving enterprise architects, whereas the Good to Great book doesn’t mention enterprise architects but just talks […]

GLUE Journeys – next attempt

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I fear it is hard for me to live up to my promises made in my initial post about GLUE Journeys. I have kind of avoided to really come to the point, actually I tried, but I did not get to it in my next attempt (and I have not revealed all of my failed a…

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Creating a Powerful Vision

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Organizations with a strong inspiring vision of who they want to become have higher levels of performance than purely goal-based organizations. If you aren’t sure you need to create a vision statement for you organization, go back and read “Why Most Organizations Have Weak Visions.” A powerful vision statement clarifies management’s aspirations. It sets broad […]

Intension vs Extension

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Sometimes I feel really split brained! On the one hand I am thinking about the importance of controlling data, data quality, data schema, etc. On the other hand, I realize I can’t! So the DBA in me would like the data to be all orderly and controlled -…

Intension vs Extension

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Sometimes I feel really split brained! On the one hand I am thinking about the importance of controlling data, data quality, data schema, etc. On the other hand, I realize I can’t! So the DBA in me would like the data to be all orderly and controlled -…

Reflecting on Management

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Five years ago today, I moved from being a senior staff member (Enterprise Architect)  to the Manager, Business Application Services and Enterprise Architecture at BCIT.  Over the past few weeks, I met with many colleagues and friends that I work with for a farewell coffee or lunch.  (See my earlier post: My New Adventure)   […]

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GLUE Journey – Do Business Defence

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I promised to start exploring GLUE Journeys on the Island of Do Business Defence, and tried to apply a story like construct. I underestimated the difficulties I have to write that story like, so I decided to change the concept. Total dry approach now I…

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Innovation and GLUE

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Again I fail to continue writing on the GLUE Journeys as promised but jump into another hot topic: Innovation. Actually I do not really think that it is new knowledge, but for whatever reason it seems to be hot. i personally utilize the knowledge Evere…

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Enterprise-architecture is wicked

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How do we cope with the wickedness of enterprise-architecture? I don’t mean here the implicit wickedness of people promoting term-hijacks and other half-baked notions as ‘the truth’ of enterprise-architecture – though heaven-knows there’s enough of that wickedness around. I also…