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Business Technology Management (BTM) is not a methodology but I would say a concept, or eventually the aggregation of several guidelines and techniques. It is also described as a management science which aims to unify business and technology business s…
The Platform as a Service (PaaS)Whether a Private or Public Cloud is built internally, or contracted for, to support SOA, its the “Platform as a Service (PaaS)” layer will be required to have certain functions essential for the supp…
Why is it that attempts to decentralize often seem to result in an accumulation of power at the centre? There are several possible explanations.
1. In some instances, the decentralization agenda may be completely fraudulent. Popular leaders may spout …
Why is it that attempts to decentralize often seem to result in an accumulation of power at the centre? There are several possible explanations.
1. In some instances, the decentralization agenda may be completely fraudulent. Popular leaders may spout …
Work is Organized as a Holarchy of Viable Systems In his excellent book “Making Work Systems Better”, Luc Hoebeke (1994) develops a work systems framework that provides an alternative to monolithic, hierarchic models of organizations. Arguing that the …
It’s been a few weeks that while discussing with people at conferences, meetings or even lunch… “Social Network” topic come up on the table quite often. Is it because of me, raising the topic or not? That I cannot say. Anyhow, due to these discussions I decided to share this article with you, even if, […]
@jamesallworth and @claychristensen believe that Steve Jobs solved the innovator’s dilemma (HBR October 2011).
Allworth’s simplified version of the Innovator’s Dilemma (as explained with greater precision in Christensen’s book) is that successful inno…
@jamesallworth and @claychristensen believe that Steve Jobs solved the innovator’s dilemma (HBR October 2011).
Allworth’s simplified version of the Innovator’s Dilemma (as explained with greater precision in Christensen’s book) is that successful inno…
You’re an experienced enterprise-architect, having spent most your working life in one industry. You now have a new job, in a new company, in an industry that’s entirely new to you. And the company at present has no architecture at all: you’re ‘it’. Where on earth do you start? That’s the situation my friend Alan […]
Those notions of ‘whole-enterprise architecture’ that I’ve been describing in the ‘no-plan Plan‘ series of posts make solid sense to a fair few people – particularly those who’ve some experience of systems-thinking, design-thinking and the like. But it’s painfully clear that it doesn’t seem to make much sense to anyone else: and I must admit […]
Return On InvestmentAccording to Investopedia (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnoninvestment.asp#ixzz1bcKSKpx9)::”A performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of different…
The IDEF0 Pattern and the Organization’s Value EngineIn my book, Organizational Economics: the Formation of Wealth, I use the IDEF0 pattern to model the organization. This pattern has three internal components, Control, Process, and Mechanisms (t…