Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Another week’s worth of Tweets and links, for once almost on time. Usual categories, of course, with a few extra bits and pieces as usual. Over to you? Enterprise-architecture, business architecture and that kind of stuff: practicingEA: At an engagement yesterday client kept using the word ‘enterprise’ 2 mean big company IT…hmmm. Not what #entarch […]
I’m afraid I disagree with my friend @markhillary and countless others who have described Steve Jobs as a visionary. See for example Mark’s piece Steve Jobs Succeeded Against all the Odds (Huffington Post, 6 October 2011).
If you want a visionary from…
Folks, we have an important issue on terminology that we need to address. In two comments to my previous post, Dave Snowden has made it clear that he objects to any reference to the term ‘Cynefin‘ that does not conform exactly to his specification for that term. This includes any usage of the term ‘Cynefin-categorization’, […]
What is simple, complex, complicated, or chaotic? And from whose perspective? For a long time now I’ve been using those context-categories – often referred to as the ‘Cynefin-categorization’ – with a straightforward cross-map to levels of repeatability, somewhat analogous to the states or phases of matter: Although we do need to be wary of misusing […]
Wikipedia defines Consilience as the unity of knowledge (literally a “jumping together” of knowledge), which has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process.
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Is Information Technology a COOL Industry to be in? Has “IT” – the silent back-office contributor to the business success finally found it’s rightful place in the Industrial Hierarchy? Well don’t know about that but for consecutive years now a …
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| 1 | 71.86 |
Not an IT company but we love it anyway!
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| 2 | 69.90 |
The Big Blue is truly alive and well. The grand old guardian of IT industry has cemented it’s position as the leader by virtue of innovation, R&D, focus on business software.
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| 3 | 59.08 |
Surprised to see MS on number three? Well you should not be MS Office, Windows, Explorer still hold near monopoly position in PC market.
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| 4 | 55.31 |
Need we say more? Search, Android, Apps, Phone, Business software, Ecommerce, News…Expect to give IBM run for money in future rankings.
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| 5 | 42.80 |
Not an IT company but a true pioneer in industrialising science and technology in many ways. Well-deserved position.
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| 6 | 35.59 |
Not an IT company but part of staple for our teams for many decades past and I am sure future decades to come.
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| 7 | 35.21 |
Another true pioneer of the PC era, well-deserved position no doubt. However need to innovate and fast to catch tablet and smarphone bandwagon.
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| 8 | 33.49 |
Innovator’s Innovator. Jumped from 17th position in 2010 to 8th in 2011. Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone – changed our world, our media and content consumption patterns and re-shaped entire ecosystem. The Ultimate Cool!
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| 9 | 29.01 |
Catch them young….and in what a beautiful way! We love this brand and from early years if I may add…
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| 10 | 28.47 |
Let recent upheavals not fool you….along with IBM a true cornerstone for the IT industry for many decades. Does need a new identity in fast evolving industry though to make top 10 in next years.
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Oh well. The past couple of posts on a ‘thought-experiment‘ in using enterprise-architecture methods to guide a fundamental rethink of economics both seem to have gone down like the proverbial lead-balloon. Fair enough. But I guess I’ll do one more try before going back to more conventional enterprise-architecture themes. (If anyone is interested in this, we can […]
In the October 2011 Wired, Steven Levy writes about how the scroll bar has disappeared in Apple’s latest desktop operating system, code-named Lion. Instead of using a mouse to point and drag to move the page up and down, Lion changes the metaphor into a two-fingered multi-touch movement, similar to the move used on your smartphone or tablet. Is this the beginning of a fundamental change in the way we interact with office based computers? […]
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