Its not about Complexity its about Simplicity
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What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs?
I was at the Architecture Summit this weekend and we spun up a roundtable topic based on Steve Jobs. I quickly stepped back and reflected more precisely on the topic of what we as Enterprise Architects can learn from Steve…
Organizing Business Capabilities
#entarch #bizarch Following a Linked-In discussion on business architecture and capability modelling, I was slightly alarmed to see how many contributions to the discussion were based on an argument from authority: IBM says this, Michael Porter says th…
Organizing Business Capabilities
#entarch #bizarch Following a Linked-In discussion on business architecture and capability modelling, I was slightly alarmed to see how many contributions to the discussion were based on an argument from authority: IBM says this, Michael Porter says th…
Architecture standards: Embedding (4/7)
This is the fourth posting in a series on architecture standards. In previous postings we discussed the standards terminology and the documentation of architecture standards. In this posting we pick up the thread and dive into the embedding of the stan…
Could Anyone Else Use an Extra $600,000?
I am supplementing my Q&A series on the Value of EA & BPA with a wonderful article published on January 30th about one our customers, Chubb Insurance, written by Madeline Weiss, Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council. There is nothing like a great story to illustrate some of the ways enterprise architecture initiatives are […]
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San Francisco Conference Observations: Enterprise Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, SOA and a Splash of Cloud Computing
By Chris Harding, The Open Group This week I have been at The Open Group conference in San Francisco. The theme was Enterprise Transformation which, in simple terms means changing how your business works to take advantage of the latest … Contin…
Recap: Penn State Enterprise Architecture Education Research Initiative
In this session at the Open Group Conference, Dr. Brian Cameron walked us through Penn State Enterprise Architecture Initiative at the College of ISTEA IST. I have blogged about this program before (Enterprise Architecture Goes To College, EA Becoming Academically…
Enterprise Architecture Lecture Series
Imagine you wanted to run a lecture series or course on Enterprise Architecture. Let’s say you ended up with 6 themes, such as:
The Alignment Trap
The EA Profession and the Discipline
The Value of Enterprise Architecture
Architecting Work Practice
Living Enterprise and Metropolis
Publishing and […]
The Enterprise Architecture entry in Wikipedia (i)
Here is a hearty LinkedIn debate about the Enterprise Architecture entry in Wikipedia. I’ll comment only the outcome, the Wikipedia entry itself. It is informative indeed, but how useful is it in practice to you? Ultimately, I found it…
Link Collection — February 5, 2012
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From CIO To Chief Digital Officer – Chuck’s Blog
“In the new digital information economy, who leads the transformation from the previous business model to the new one?”
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PiCloud | Cloud Computing. Simplified.
Looks interesting:
“Re-inventing the Cloud: Leverage the power of the cloud with only 3 lines of [Python] code. Leave the load balancing, auto scaling, and server management to us.”
tags: picloud CloudComputing python
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IBM’s Watson is changing careers – Big Tech – Fortune Tech
Watson must’ve blown through his winnings. He’s getting a job:
“IBM plans to sell Watson as a cloud-based service companies can tap to find answers in disparate data sets. For example, a financial services firm could use it to sift through news reports and market research to find likely acquisition targets. Or a healthcare company could utilize Watson to process medical articles, prior cases and even a patient’s own medical history and identify the most likely diagnosis and best course of treatment.”
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Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
“The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.” The group searched for plants, and then cultured the microorganisms within the plant tissue. As it turns out, they brought back a fungus new to science with a voracious appetite for a global waste problem: polyurethane.”
tags: plastic environment discovery
ArchiMate 2.0 Highlights
I am really excited about the new release of ArchiMate. The reason I am so excited is that for the first time ArchiMate complements TOGAF with a compelling, versatile and unambiguous visual modeling language that covers the end to end…