Mobile Enterprise – Beyond the Fundamentals

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Guest post by Dan Eckert In my last post about going mobile in the enterprise I talked about some fundamentals for going mobile in your business. In brief, I said there were three things you should know about mobile in the enterprise as you move forward: Things are moving so fast that choosing a software platform is more critical than which hardware you should buy. Mobile innovation is no longer being driven by the enterprise; […]

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Scientific Management 2.0

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I would normally just ignore stuff like Adam Deane’s blog on last week’s IRM conferences, but couldn’t help tweeting a reaction, and then another. I don’t really want to start a flame war, but just got offended by his personal attacks.
Having said that, I would like some comments on my “BPM = […]

Innovation in an Enterprise Architecture Context: Innovating the Business Processes, Technological Services and Corporate Strategies.

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Innovation This blog post deals with innovation in regards to the Enterprise Architecture program. I’ve been able to identify two different approaches to innovation. The first approach to innovation is what I define as incremental innovation. The second approach to … Continue reading →

Matching the method to the proper structure

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The organization of businesses is nothing like the organization of the other wealth distributing organization type. Where some highly successful governments relinquish more and more of the control the further down the hierarchy it gets, businesses usually tend to do the opposite. If we look to Sweden and most other western countries as examples we […]

A week in Tweets: 22-28 May 2011

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The delay. The list. The Tweets. The links. That set of categories. All as usual. All preceded by the possibly-exciting ‘Read more…’ link. ‘Nuff said, probably?

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, strategy and suchlike stuff:

joemckendrick: RT @raesmaa Enterprise app stores arrive; IT departments nonplussed | ZDNet http://zd.net/jRI7aX /by @dhinchcliffe >v.useful analysis by Dion Hinchcliffe – impact especially on IT […]

June 12 Link Collection

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  • VMware: Rethink IT: The future of cloud and NYSE Euronext’s capital markets community platform

    “NYSE Technologies (a unit of NYSE Euronext) announced their new “community platform” cloud computing service today, running on vSphere and vCloud Director from VMware. The target customers for the service are capital markets organizations such as hedge funds and the trading departments of banks, with initial customers including a unit of Goldman Sachs and the hedge fund Millenium Partners.

    …

    NYSE’s service is innovative in several ways. NYSE Euronext is primarily known for being a financial exchange as well as a provider of market data, rather than as a cloud provider. So why start offering cloud computing? NYSE saw how it could significantly simplify and improve its customers’ competitiveness in capital markets by providing an integrated service that combined on-demand computing with access to the market (the exchanges), a low-latency secure network and instant access to data feeds. In a reversal of traditional approaches to IT, computing capacity is literally coming to the market and the data — rather than the data and market being piped to the computers.”

    tags: nyse cloudcomputing capitalmarkets

  • 5 Technologies That Will Shape the Web – IEEE Spectrum

    “Today the Web is going through another reinvention, morphing into a place where our social interactions are ever more important. And the main force behind this phenomenon is, of course, Facebook, led by Zuckerberg, now a 27-year-old billionaire.

    So where will the Web go next? We asked two dozen analysts, engineers, and executives to describe what technologies they think will shape our online experiences in the next several years. Their predictions could easily fill this entire issue, but we distilled their wisdom into a more palatable list of five key technologies that our sources mentioned most frequently.

    We also asked six of the experts to tell us what these technologies mean for today’s dueling titans, Google and Facebook. What challenges do they face? Who’s got an advantage?”

    tags: tech trends

  • EA: To infinity and beyond! « Adam Deane

    Adam Deane employs the Toy Story characters as Enterprise Architect and (requisite) cast of doubters:

    “Buzz: All this is going to change. I am Buzz Lightyear; I am the new generation of Enterprise Architects. No longer IT oriented. I’m business oriented. I come in peace.

    Woody: How are you going to make a difference?

    Buzz: I will create business growth instead of trying to find ways to save money. I will generate revenue. I will speed up business cycles. I will make myself indispensable to the organisation.”

    tags: entarch humor

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Demand and Supply

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Further to my last post, it occurred to me that another major difference between a Business Architect and a Business Analyst is that the Business Architect is a role on the demand side and the Business Analyst is on the supply side. The Business Architect identifies the future demand for changes to the enterprise business model and associated business […]

Respect as an architectural issue (IRM-EAC 2011)

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I had an excellent time at the IRM-EAC 2011 conference in London this past week. Part of that was because Sally Bean and Roger Burlton had had the courage to bring their previously-separate EA (architecture) and BPM (process) conferences together, creating an immensely valuable mix across the whole business-change space. For me, the conference started […]

The State of CIO: Evolution of the CIO Mandate and Role

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These days I am presenting the analysis of the State of CIO in this blog. So far I have summarised insights from a successful CIO in my 50 Things to Know Becoming CIO post, followed by analysis of the Priorities and Focus for 2012 and beyond based on the Harvey Nash CIO Survey.  In this post I will be analysing and summarising another influential industry survey from IBM. 

The 2011 Global CIO Study – Essential CIO is a comprehensive survey of 3000+ CIOs across Public and Private sector enterprises. More importantly is spans 70+ countries and 18 industries. So this is well rounded view of the CIO function in its true sense and any regional, industry biases and variations are essentially balanced by sheer volume of variety of insights in this influential piece of data collection and data analysis.


The key question which this survey is focusing on is, “How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive and economic landscape?” The headline finding of this survey is “CIOs increasingly help their public and private sector organizations cope with complexity by simplifying operations, business processes, products and services. To increase competitiveness, 83 percent of CIOs have visionary plans that include business intelligence and analytics, followed by mobility solutions (74 percent) and virtualization (68 percent).“

Lonely Tree by Evgeni Dinev

The key takeaway for me from this insight is that the CIO and the IT function is no longer isolated or lonely in the evolving business and operational world. Rather the IT function and CIO role is stepping up to the challenge and evolving at similar or greater pace. The study classifies all the responses it has received in four distinct patterns called as “CIO Mandates”, namely Expand, Leverage, Transform and Pioneer. The editors of the report state, “These mandates were derived from iterative analysis, including state-of-the-art statistical and textual analysis of the thousands of CIO responses. It revealed typical response patterns associated with each mandate. Each pattern indicated a distinct approach to IT leadership derived from specific organizational needs.“


The Leverage Mandate is about demand from organisations for high-performance IT which needs CIOs to focus on managing essential IT activities and getting information to decision makers faster and more accurately. 52% of the focus of CIOs with this mandate is to provide fundamental services while 28% is to manage and boost the organisational process efficiency.

The Expand Mandate asks CIOs to focus on cross-enterprise growth while continuously tune business processes and internal collaboration to gain tighter integration. An overwhelming 98 percent of those CIOs said they would lead or support efforts to simplify internal key processes. A full 95 percent said they would lead or support efforts to drive better real-time decisions and take advantage of analytics.

The CIOs with Transform Mandate look beyond the boundaries of the enterprise to simplify business processes and generate real-time insights up and down the value chain. Organizations that operate with a Transform mandate expect IT, more than anything else, to be a provider of industry-wide solutions to support business. The survey reports that CIOs with this mandate are expected to spend more than 33% of their time and budget on this focus.

With a Pioneer Mandate, CIOs are seen as critical enablers of the organization’s vision and typically spend less than one-quarter of their time or budget on delivering fundamental IT services or business process efficiency. This group of CIOs ranked product/service profitability analysis and product/service utilization analysis as their top two priorities for turning data into usable intelligence.



The report concludes by stating that, “Whether an organization requires an emphasis on delivery of essential IT services or challenges the CIO to pioneer new opportunities, CIOs need to innovate. With ongoing technological shifts, the seemingly endless onslaught of data and the increasingly frenetic pace of change, making incremental improvements to operations may no longer be sufficient.” 

The message is loud and clear, The Role of CIO is Evolving. Innovative approaches to advance the business forward is IN. Efficiency improvements and “keep the lights on” are expected as “Business As Usual” and no longer enough to secure the seat at the Board. Modern CIO needs to be a true business leader who owns and manages to Technology to deliver true business value and advance the business forward.


CIO Insights is part of IBM Executive Exchange which can be accessed here.


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