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Why should there be EA politics in the first place? Because EA is a complex, long term human activity, demanding cooperation of many parties and expensive skilled resources. And politics is all about human interaction and competition. Because EA is…
In this series on ArchiMate we have so far focused on the fundamentals of the language, and on tailoring it for use in your own organization. Also we wrote about some best practices for creating effective views for key stakeholders in your organization…
Declare Your Radicalness – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review
Thought provoking, albeit a bit long: “In other words, we’re incrementalists. We may honor the radical — but we surround ourselves with the banal, trivial, humdrum, and tedious”
“…but I believe that we, each and every one of us, is capable of more than incrementally, cautiously, timidly, option-3-in-slide-14-in-the-powerpoint-deck not so bad. I think we’re capable of radically, explosively, dangerously, laughably, hopelessly, impossibly better.”
tags: incrementalism radicalness hbr
Meet The League Of Extraordinary Women: 60 Influencers Who Are Changing The World | Fast Company
Truly inspiring and very well done: “The previously untold story of how an unprecedented network of high-achieving women from the world’s largest companies, innovative startups, philanthropic organizations, government, and the arts combined forces to change the lives of girls and women everywhere.”
tags: fastcompany theleague ellen-mcgirt
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? – YouTube
“Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.” — TED Talk, 2006
tags: creativity TED
1024 Words: The Devops Butterfly Effect
Nice infographic and bite-sized post by the always excellent, Lori MacVittie of F5:
“Chaos theory claims a butterfly flapping its wings in one area of the world can result in a hurricane elsewhere. The impact of devops – or the lack thereof – may not be as devastating, but it does have an impact in terms of time, money and risk.”
tags: devops
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What are the values of a good enterprise architect? Being in a consulting practice where I spend the most of my working life collaborating with CIO’s, process owners, and senior architects, I often hear that question. Often the question emerges out of …
What are the values of a good enterprise architect? Being in a consulting practice where I spend the most of my working life collaborating with CIO’s, process owners, and senior architects, I often hear that question. Often the question emerges out of …
In answer to a question about “implementing” the Zachman Framework … here is my response:
Remember … the Framework is much like the Periodic Table … you wouldn’t necessarily “implement” the Periodic Table. However, it would be really helpful if you could keep an inventory of as many of the Periodic Table elements as you can so when you get ready to produce a compound, a chemical implementation, it could be done very quickly and very cheaply.
Similarly, the Framework.
I always say … “Some day … SOMEDAY, you are going to wish you had all these models …. etc. etc.” You don’t NEED all the models … however, the more, the better … but maybe it would be UTOPIA to have all the Framework Primitive, single-variable models, all made explicit, all enterprise-wide, all horizontally and vertically integrated and all at excruciating level of detail! If you had them all in inventory, you could manufacture Composite implementations (systems) from the Primitive Models (architecture) VERY quickly and VERY cheaply! That effectively would be “mass-customization” of the Enterprise (“custom Enterprises mass-produced in quantities of one for immediate delivery”) … the actual realization of “late-binding” of system implementations … not to mention an actually “lean and mean”, deliberately designed, Enterprise reality!
This is the first of a three part series on Challenges for Higher Education CIOs – Globalization of Education. The delivery of education has become a global business. The number of students from K to 12 aged populations in North America are dec…
My daughter brought this picture home of a beach. There was something about the simplicity that really struck me. Sand, sea, sky and sun. The essence of a beach experience in 4 abstract components. Interesting how complex interactions and environments …
Following my last post, I decided to purchase three new books from Amazon: SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP;SAP: A Map of the Minefield; andGary Hamel – What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentles…
Following my last post, I decided to purchase three new books from Amazon: SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP;SAP: A Map of the Minefield; andGary Hamel – What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentles…
NOTE: When I refer to “Business Architects” here, I am referring to anyone playing the role of the business architect. This could be business managers, enterprise architects, business analysts, strategists, etc. We don’t need the title of business architect to be one. When we do “business architecture things” we are acting as business architects. There […]