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This is the fifth posting in a series on architecture standards. In previous postings we discussed the standards terminology and the documentation of architecture standards as well the embedding of the standards practice in the organization. In this po…
How BPM Can Increase Your Overall SharePoint Maturity Over 43% of organizations deploying SharePoint are looking to purchase workflow or business process management (BPM) add-on applications for the platform, according to the 2011 “How Are Businesses Using SharePoint” survey. Like many businesses deploying SharePoint, usage within the organization expands dramatically as users find it a useful […]
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High Scalability – High Scalability – Grace Hopper to Programmers: Mind Your Nanoseconds!
“Computing pioneer Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler, searched for a concrete way to create an intuitive understanding of just how fast is a nanosecond, a billionth of a second, which was the speed of their new computer circuits.”
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CFOs boost tech spending as they cut elsewhere, seeking competitive edge – WSJ.com
“This is the best time to get outsize returns if you know what you are doing,” says Dr. Brynjolfsson. “It is also the best time to lose your shirt if you don’t know what you are doing.”
Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle – NYTimes.com
“Why study Bell Labs? It offers a number of lessons about how our country’s technology companies — and our country’s longstanding innovative edge — actually came about. Yet Bell Labs also presents a more encompassing and ambitious approach to innovation than what prevails today. Its staff worked on the incremental improvements necessary for a complex national communications network while simultaneously thinking far ahead, toward the most revolutionary inventions imaginable.”
tags: nytimes innovation bell_labs
The #FollowFriday (#FF) trend on Twitter has been around for years. Here is the first tweet that started it all: https://twitter.com/#!/micah/status/1124262248 by Micah Baldwin @micah on Jan 16, 2009: I am starting Follow Fridays. Every Friday, su…
This is some dot points from an excellent article by Richard Veryard discussing Stafford Beer’s maxim that the “Purpose Of a System Is What It Does” or “POSIWID“. Richard points…
Here’s an interesting comment from a newsgroup
“More seriously, this is an areas rife with confusing and badly understood terminology – I should know, I’ve been using it for a couple of decades. In context I was referring to the bits and pieces boug…
Here’s an interesting comment from a newsgroup
“More seriously, this is an areas rife with confusing and badly understood terminology – I should know, I’ve been using it for a couple of decades. In context I was referring to the bits and pieces boug…
#Event Date Location Booking
Patrick Hoverstadt, Enterprise Architecture and Systemic Approaches to Enterprise Modelling 8 March 2012 BCS
London
WC2 via BCS
Enterprise Architecture Forum29 March 2…
#bizarch #entarch #POSIWID As anyone knows who has attempted serious business and organizational transformation, an enterprise can be as stubborn as a teenager. Complex systems have strong feedback loops that maintain and restore the status quo against…
#Event Date Location Booking
Patrick Hoverstadt, Enterprise Architecture and Systemic Approaches to Enterprise Modelling 8 March 2012 BCS
London
WC2 via BCS
Enterprise Architecture Forum29 March 2…
#bizarch #entarch #POSIWID As anyone knows who has attempted serious business and organizational transformation, an enterprise can be as stubborn as a teenager. Complex systems have strong feedback loops that maintain and restore the status quo against…
Every company should plan regular architecture capability maturity assessments using a model. These should provide a framework that represents the key components of a productive enterprise architecture process. A model provides an evolutionary way to i…