Balancing Lopsided IT Governance

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As you’ve probably heard, it’s happening again. Corporations are decentralizing IT and calling the role of the CIO into question. Between social networking, cloud computing and digital mobility, business units are demanding more than ever from IT. As IT struggles to keep pace with rapid innovation, business units are growing increasingly comfortable purchasing and deploying outside systems on their own. As a result, conditions are ripe for restructuring the relationship between business and IT. According […]

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Is Your Supply Chain Classic or Country?

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Customer conversations at the User Summit on driving productivity in the value chain The OpenText BPS User Summit last week offered an opportunity to talk with many of our customers about how they are achieving business process improvement. As our keynote speaker Clay Richardson of Forrester Research said, “I’m excited!” about BPM and the possibilities. Some […]

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Maslow’s Hierarchy isn’t a hierarchy

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Maslow’s Hierarchy isn’t a hierarchy. Spiral Dynamics isn’t a spiral. They’re not levels in a stack; they’re not linear progressions. They’re dimensions. I was reminded of this by an excellent post on the Psychology Today website, by Pamela Rutledge: Social Networks: What Maslow Misses. She makes the point that none of the ‘levels’ in the ‘hierarchy’ make […]

On sensemaking in enterprise-architectures [2]

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How do we make sense of uniqueness? How can we make sense of what’s happening at the exact moment of action? In the previous post in this series, I looked briefly at Boisot’s I-Space – promoted by some as ‘the answer’ to everything in the information-space – and discovered that, useful though it may be […]

SCAN left, SCAN right…

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A nice analogy that you might like to explore, in terms of SCAN for sensemaking: The Simple side of SCAN, over on the left, aligns well with ‘left-brain thinking’; the Not-simple, ambiguous, ‘none-of the-above’ side of SCAN, over on the right, aligns well with ‘right-brain thinking’. Yes, I know that analogy has been over-used in […]

On sensemaking in enterprise-architectures [1]

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We know how to do sensemaking in enterprise-architectures; but why do we do it? What’s the purpose? What’s the point? As a result of various recent proddings from Bruce Waltuck and Stephen Law, amongst others, I’ve finally gotten round to taking a more than just a cursory glance at Max Boisot‘s concept of information-space, or […]

Link Collection — November 13, 2011

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  • Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship – NYTimes.com

    “Ever since taking over as C.E.O., I have focused much of my energy on increasing Google’s velocity and execution, and we’re beginning to see results,” Mr. Page, 38, told analysts recently.

    tags: google execution

  • 20 Characteristics of the Transleader. ~ Jennifer Sertl | elephant journal

    Jump to the list, under the video. A sample:

    1. Transleaders are intelligence officers. They are always looking for the unexpected insight, the unrecognised trends, and the subtle changes in the marketplace. They are information junkies—about the company’s markets, customers and technologies. And they maintain a large network of sources and informants.

    2. They are intuitive and creative people. They deeply understand the business environment and naturally have insights about how to operate within and beyond it.

    tags: transleader

  • MQTT: MQ Telemetry Transport

    “The MQTT protocol enables a publish/subscribe messaging model in an extremely lightweight way. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium. For example, it has been used in remote sensors communicating to a broker via satellite link, over occasional dial-up connections with healthcare providers, and in a range of home automation and small sensor device scenarios. It is also ideal for mobile applications because of its small size, low power usage, minimised data packets, and efficient distribution of information to one or many receivers. “

    tags: eclipse mqtt internetofthings

  • IBM Open-Sources Potential “Internet of Things” Protocol

    “IBM announced it is joining with Italy-based hardware architecture firm Eurotech in donating a complete draft protocol for asynchronous inter-device communication to the Eclipse Foundation.”

    “It is being called Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol, the machine-to-machine counterpart of HTTP.”

    tags: MQTT ibm internetofthings

  • McKinsey & Company – Report – The great transformer: The impact of the Internet on economic growth and prosperity – October 2011

    “The Internet is changing the way we work, socialize, create and share information, and organize the flow of people, ideas, and things around the globe. Yet the magnitude of this transformation is still underappreciated. The Internet accounted for 21 percent of the GDP growth in mature economies over the past 5 years. In that time, we went from a few thousand students accessing Facebook to more than 800 million users around the world, including many leading firms, who regularly update their pages and share content. While large enterprises and national economies have reaped major benefits from this technological revolution, individual consumers and small, upstart entrepreneurs have been some of the greatest beneficiaries from the Internet’s empowering influence. If Internet were a sector, it would have a greater weight in GDP than agriculture or utilities. “

    tags: mckinsey internet economy

  • Seth’s Blog: There’s nothing wrong with having a plan

    Got a mission?

    “But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.”

    tags: seth

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On function, capability and service

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In enterprise-architecture, how do we disentangle business-function, business-capability and business-service? This one’s for Adam Johnson, particularly as a follow-on to his comment to the previous post ‘More on EA and asset-types [Part 4]‘: I perceived your usage of function to be business function at a certain level of abstraction that could be perceived as a […]