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JP Ranganswami posted an article that resonated with the work I am doing on my MSc as well as some thinking about social enterprise in my day job. Please take the time to read JP’s post Thinking about the Social Enterprise and Flow, it will def…
I have had the opportunity to read several documents containing estimations on what the chief architects and CIOs should expect of the concept of Enterprise Architecture in 2012. As a result I have made some thoughts of my own, and my thoughts have been delimited to what could happen in Scandinavia. There are reasons for […]
The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com
“Mr. Wozniak offers this guidance to aspiring inventors:
“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone …. I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
tags: creativity woz nytimes groupthink
The Synergist | Matthew E. May
“Sounds like a Marvel Comics action hero, right? But having launched countless creative teams, I know from experience that when they’re in the throes of team hell, they in fact need a hero: someone with a special talent for being at once the glue and the grease that keeps the machine working at peak effectiveness. Someone who can lead them to predictable success.
That’s where the “Synergist” comes in.”
tags: synergy synergist matthewmay
The Creative Personality: Ten paradoxical traits of the
The Creative Personality: Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
tags: creativity
Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier | Business Intelligence – InfoWorld
Review of test drive: Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR
tags: hadoop
Martin Fowler on need to mix and match db persistence models and programming models. Follow the link for PolyglotPersistence.
“This is part of the argument for PolyglotPersistence – use aggregate-oriented databases when you are manipulating clear aggregates (especially if you are running on a cluster) and use relational databases (or a graph database) when you want to manipulate that data in different ways.”
tags: nosql martinfowler
What is the total value of your organization’s assets? The accountants keep track on all physical assets and the financial assets, but the field of measuring intangible assets is still emerging. Intangible assets are all the resources within the organization that does not appear on the balance sheet. This counts for as much as 80% of many businesses […]
#entarch There is a common fallacy among enterprise architects that radical structural and behavioural change can and should be driven by a few simple and powerful ideas. Alas, the public sector is strewn with the disastrous consequences of this fallac…
#entarch There is a common fallacy among enterprise architects that radical structural and behavioural change can and should be driven by a few simple and powerful ideas. Alas, the public sector is strewn with the disastrous consequences of this fallac…
Earlier today I came across a Tweet from the Open Group that pointed to an interview with Dr Leon Keppleman at University of North Texas. Given that the note was from Open Group, no surprise that it was mostly about IT, but to me, the headline was somewhat of a breath of fresh air, and […]
While I have not yet embarked on writing another book, I have been published in a second book. The publisher of my book on SOA Governance, Packt Publishing, has released their first compendium title called, “Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt.” It features content from several of their SOA books and authors, including […]
Next up in my Q&A series on EA, I am going to address how the EA market is changing and what vendors are doing to support user’s new expectations. Question: What are some of the ways that EA is evolving and what changes are EA tool vendors implementing to support those changes? Answer: In my […]
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