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What do we do when we don’t know what to do? – and how do we ensure that whatever we do is the right thing to do? How do we make sense fast, at business-speed? I’ve been tussling with this one for quite a while, most recently culminating with a simple sensemaking framework called SCAN: The horizontal green-line […]
This is the eight posting in a series on TOGAF’s ADM which covers phase H – Architecture Change Management. Phase H is not really a phase, but more a continuous activity of monitoring change as well as establishing procedures for managing this ch…
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“What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.”
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As the economy shifts ever onward from manufacturing toward services, how do marketing and market-relationships need to change with this shift? And what enterprise-architectures do we need to support this? [In part this is a follow-on from Dave Gray’s excellent Dachis Group article ‘Everything is a service’: I strongly recommend to read that post first […]
This is another follow-on to the earlier post ‘Helping others make sense of my work’ – this time about how to bring all of this to a wider audience and market, and help bring ‘whole-enterprise architecture’ ideas into more general use. If you’ve been around this weblog for a while, you’ve probably noticed I tend […]
1. Distance doesn’t matter.
Employees now expect to be able to collaborate in real-time with any co-worker. They expect to have access to whatever data or services the company offers no matter where they happen to be. Where in the world tha…
Gartner predicts that by 2013, mobile devices will outpace the laptop as the most popular way to access the internet. As a mobile user, I want to access and interact with processes in my business just as easily as I access other businesses, such as Amazon, Chipotle, or Schwab, from my iPhone (or tablet, if […]
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