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It has been a while since i last posted, but i have a good reason! its because i’m currently blogging my way through my latest little challenge to use Oblique Strategies for the next 30 days well 23 I’ve already done 6).
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With the popularity of public cloud offerings, BYOD and personal productivity apps, rogue technology acquisitions (at least from IT’s perspective) are more pervasive than ever, creating a new focus on “Shadow IT.” Our 2012 Digital IQ study of 489 executives found that 30% of technology procurement is outside the CIO’s budget. A wise proverb says: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” What if you need […]
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I am impressed with Cobit 5. The leap from 4.1 to 5 is significant and useful. Points to note:- the level of detail has been REDUCED!- Cobit has discovered POLICIES! The framework is no longer a purely process perspective, but recognizes a defined set …
(Don’t worry: this is little more than a Public Service Announcement for those enterprise-architecture folks who are interested in the Cynefin framework.) From knowledge-management guru David Gurteen, I hear via Twitter that David Snowden is currently updating some of his…
The previous post on ‘Money, price and value in enterprise-architecture‘ was kinda long, so here’s a (somewhat) shorter summary: Background It’s fundamentally important that enterprise-architectures should incorporate the following assertions: there are many other forms of value besides money in…
Skills That Will Remain in Demand In a Computer-Rich World
“How do we win the “man-vs.-machine” battle?
The key is not to compete, but to partner — to develop new ways of combining human skills with ever-more-powerful technology to create value.
Another key, on a more personal level, is to work on skills that help you couple the best of human creativity with computer power. These kinds of jobs are where many of the best future opportunities will lie.”
Skills needed according to Brynjolfsson and McAfee: Applied math & stats, negotiation and group dynamics, good writing, framing problems and solving open-ended problems, persuasion, human interaction and nurturing.
Life’s Work: Sally Ride – Harvard Business Review
“Sally Ride thought she’d grow up to be a physics professor, and she did. But before that, she became the first American woman in space. She went on to found Sally Ride Science, a company focused on improving science education for kids, which she called a “business imperative for the country.” She died in July, at age 61, just weeks after talking with HBR. Interviewed by Alison Beard”
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If Churchill had been an Enterprise Architect then maybe the speech below had been a reality… The problems raged on. The Architect told the leaders, “I have, myself, full confidence that if we all do our duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall […]
The Business Process Manifesto edited by Roger Burlton is now available. The purpose of this manifesto is to create common definitions for terminology and concepts used in the business process management space. This document has been a number of years in the making and has received review and input from many business professionals worldwide. It
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I subscribe to the free investigative reports generated by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). For my foreign readers and those not familiar with GAO, the agency describes itself as follows: "The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an…
Continuing on from ‘Framework versus body-of-knowledge‘, the same colleague asked me for some notes on how we could apply quality-systems concepts to enterprise-architecture itself. Background to this is that perhaps a dozen years back, I was working at an engineering…