Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
“The IMF downgrades its growth forecasts and casts further doubt on Osborne meeting his debt target” reports @JJ_159 via @Spectator_CH. @EmmaLangman suggests (sadly) that that it is ‘our’ debt target by association. “What Chancellor chooses, the countr…
I saw the post by Forbes blogger Joe McKendrick in which McKendrick introduces a new term – Service Technology – which cements the concept of a service-oriented thinking that technically enables the realization of SOA within the enterprise followed by its sustained evolution to cloud computing. Continue reading →
Social platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, and others are gaining traction within enterprises, but are they really useful and do they increase employee productivity? Well, according to Forrester’s Craig LeClair, the answer is no, until they are integrated with core business processes. OpenText’s Steve Russell recently joined Craig to discuss how dynamic case management (DCM) solutions, […]
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Are there any anti-clients for you in your enterprise? Who are they? How did they turn so actively against you? And what can you do about it, and them, in the design and implementation of your enterprise-architecture? Who are anti-clients? To…
Not unexpectedly, one of the key business stakeholders from finance asked – while I was in the process of “selling” him the EA – “why do we need EA, since you, in IT, surely have an architecture, don’t you, otherwise…
In my lasts posts I was exploring complexity and how I tackle the problem of complexity by applying my GLUE thinking to it. Therefore here a short summary so that my thinking about complexity up to now is collected in one place. I am using the SCAN fra…
Those “other” architects…
“There’s something inescapably alluring about pocket-sized compendiums of quotes by great architects and designers — take, for instance, those of Charles Eames and Frank Lloyd Wright. Fittingly, The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom (public library) gathers timeless wisdom on design and architecture from more than 100 of history’s most vocal — and often dissenting — minds. What emerges, besides the fascinating tapas bar of ideas about the art and science of building, is the subtle but essential reminder that what lies at the heart of creative legacy aren’t universal formulas and unrelenting tents but perspective, conviction, and personality.”
tags: architects
Three Ways The President Can Create Digital Jobs Now – Forbes
Data as raw material for growth, I like that.
“In this new technological world, data is the raw material for growth. We are likely to see economic and societal changes that will dwarf what we have seen so far from the Internet, driven by gathering, analyzing, and acting upon data. The new data-driven industries and their jobs will run on the infrastructure of the Internet just as the growth industries of the industrial revolution used railroads, highways and the telephone.
Those with access to data will get the rewards. Most of that data is held by companies and quite a lot by the government. While companies need to benefit from their creations, we need to find ways to put more data directly into the hands of ordinary Americans so they can gain economically from big data too…”
Making the case for STEM skills – for everyone | SmartPlanet
“A person has STEM literacy if she can understand the world around her in a logical way guided by the principals of scientific thought. A STEM-literate person can think for herself. She asks critical questions. She can form hypotheses and seek data to confirm or deny them. She sees the beauty and complexity in nature and seeks to understand. She sees the modern world that mankind has created and hopes to use her STEM-related skills and knowledge to improve it.”
tags: stem
IT versus Digitization: “The study determined that major companies, across all sectors, now spend about $8.60 on “non-IT” technology for every dollar that they spend on traditional forms of IT infrastructure, such as servers, storage, networking, mainframe MIPS, application development and maintenance. That’s up from $5.10 in 2006 and $3.20 in 2000. All told, about 79% of technology spending at those same companies is “non IT,” up from 69% in 2006 and 34% in 2000, Rubin said. Rubin defines non-IT expense as any technology related expense other than processing platforms and applications. It includes robotics, process automation, embedded chips/processors, and data analytics typically done outside the company, such as text analytic and sentiment analysis or automated sampling.”
tags: it budget digitization
In my last posts I explored the world of complexity and started with Don’t Panic. An advice which does not only work for GLUE and Enterprise Architecture but is generally a fairly good advice. The some ideas collided in my head (which reminds me of the…
In my last post I was writing about EPIC SCAN, a combination of two great sources of knowledge including a reflection on how I use it. Emergent, Perverse, Irreducible and Contrived existing Complexity is SCANned for how complex it really is. According …
How can we collaborate in chaos? Or, to put it the other way round, how can we use apparent chaos to drive decisions that guide towards some desired yet emergent aim? As you’ll see, this post itself is a kind of…
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There is much hype, few visible results and a great number of professionals who still ask what EA is and what is it for, even if they already “practice” it.
The state of frameworks is dire. Too many that do too little.
Frameworks like TOG…
In my last post Don’t Panic i touched upon complexity, a topic which seems to be pretty hot at the moment by looking at various twitter messages and fairly recent blog posts. Richard Veryard has touched the topic in a quite interesting way in his post …