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Innovative Public Engagement Helped Fuel EPA GreenApps Success
Innovative Public Engagement Helped Fuel EPA GreenApps Success It’s not every day you get to help an agency solve a unique challenge that reaches fully across the strategic engagement spectrum, and yet the opportunity arose recently to support the Environmental Protection Agency’s Apps for the Environment competition. Six months later Apps for the Environment, EPA’s first mobile app competition, is one of the most popular challenges ever hosted on Challenge.gov […]
Innovative Public Engagement Helped Fuel EPA GreenApps Success
Innovative Public Engagement Helped Fuel EPA GreenApps Success It’s not every day you get to help an agency solve a unique challenge that reaches fully across the strategic engagement spectrum, and yet the opportunity arose recently to support the Environmental Protection Agency’s Apps for the Environment competition. Six months later Apps for the Environment, EPA’s first mobile app competition, is one of the most popular challenges ever hosted on Challenge.gov […]
“Let’s do a quick SCAN on this”
What’s a quick way to start making sense of some context? – fast enough to help in making good decisions fast, too? If you’ve been watching this blog or any of my other writing, you’ll know I’ve been working on this one for years, worrying at it like a dog with a bone. My first […]
Lack of Enterprise View a Hindrance? Good Solution Architecture is Not Enough
We are consistently being exposed to ENTERPRISE architecture teams without an enterprise perspective in the deliverables and activities in which they are engaged. Sometimes this is due to a cyclical shift in the priorities between defining enterprise architecture and applying enterprise architecture…
EA Tips: Anchor Models
Anchor models are context diagrams that capture the essence of the enterprise as a simple graphic. They should be equally meaningful to both business and IT personnel and should be so intuitive that they don’t require a multi-page text narrative…
George Paras and Tim Westbrock featured guests on A&G Webinar Nov. 16
Join George and Tim for a webinar on November 16, hosted by A&G Magazine. We’ll also be joined by special guest Dave Baker, a longtime friend and industry colleague from PwC. We’ll review the findings from the A&G 2011 Year-End Survey,…
A Question for Practicing EAs
Why are you doing enterprise architecture? If you don’t know the answer to this, how can you expect others to understand EA? This is a simple question, but we are looking for comments from your readers to help others (without…
Tim Westbrock to Speak at IT Leadership Forum, Dec. 13, in Atlanta
Join Tim at the IT Leadership Forum, Dec. 13, in Atlanta, sponsored by alfabet. Tim will be presenting “Expanding Enterprise Architecture into the Business.” The ultimate promise of Enterprise Architecture has always been the alignment of business and IT strategies,…
The Open Group and SABSA Institute Publish TOGAF® Integration Whitepaper
By Jim Hietala, Vice President, Security, The Open Group 2011 confirmed what many in the Enterprise Architecture industry have feared – data breaches are on the rise. It’s not just the number and cost of data breaches, but the sheer … Continu…
Time is Running Out for the CIO to Lead on Social Media
When I was setting my clocks back this weekend for Daylight Savings Time, I started thinking about how some CIOs are at risk of getting left behind on social media. The current situation is similar to what transpired at the dawn of e-Commerce back in the mid-90s. CIOs were dragging their feet on e-Commerce rollouts so the sales and product teams took matters into their own hands. They hired outsiders and cut CIOs out of projects. Separate […]
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A nice quick one this time! I came across this tweet today from business-model guru Alex Osterwalder: business_design: A business model’s performance is due more to the harmonious relationships among its elements than to the elements themselves I tend to describe a core driver for enterprise-architecture and the like as one very simple idea: things […]