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Does your system or enterprise need a spare tire? (photo credit: jbdenham)In face of uncertainty and rapid pace of change, flexibilities like a car’s spare tire can be useful for systems and enterprises. An example of a flexibility is stronger be…
Steady growth of service oriented practices and the continued adoption of cloud computing across enterprises has resulted in the need for integrating out to the cloud. When doing so, we must take a look back in time at the evolution of integration so…
That previous post on process was, yes, I’ll admit it, a bit long: but the key point is that the term ‘process’ is necessarily a bit blurred, and that we get into trouble if we try too hard to sharpen up…
The World is globalizing, BiZZdesign is growing and expanding internationally. Are we indeed close to getting one World, with a global culture? Being a Business Consultant, mainly working on Business process management projects in the Netherlands I…
In case you hadn’t noticed, yes, I do tend to write long posts. Sorry… There are folks around who are real masters of succinct writing. Seth Godin, for example. And I’ll have to admit I’m not good at writing succinct summaries.…
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 […]
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…
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 […]
What do we mean by the term ‘process’? What is a process? For that matter, what isn’t a process? This came up in a great Skype-conversation today with Kevin Smith, creator of PEAF (the Pragmatic EA Framework), about yet another LinkedIn somewhat-circular…
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 -…
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 -…
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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