A week in Tweets: 12-18 June 2011

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Another somewhat-delayed collection of Tweets and links: make of it what you will. Usual categories, usual ‘Read more…’ link. Need you ask for more?

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and the business big-picture:

vernaallee: Fractals, complexity, simplicity and more RT @timkastelle: By @Digitaltonto: The Simple Dilemma http://bit.ly/iLX0I5 #entarch
tetradian: [post] Respect as an architectural issue (slidedeck from IRM-EAC 2011 conf) […]

When things need to go up the wall

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Mots of us run workshops to gather information and build awareness. If you like me use the Business Model Canvas then maybe you have felt that sometimes it would come in handy if the sticky notes would be encoded accordingly to the BMC. Now you can have that by printing these Business Model Canvas Sticky Notes […]

Extending Our Leadership

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We’ve got some great news! Last week, IDC MarketScape announced that Metastorm has is a Leader in Business Process Platforms – citing our consistent ROI, product innovation, cost management strategy, planning capabilities, and portfolio strategy, including our technical platform and vision around integration with content management.   So what does this mean for us and our […]

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The Battle of Our Times: Capabilities vs. Process

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Photo by Tim Hipps, FMWRC Public Affairs I’m a little ashamed to admit I’ve spent far too much of my career debating colleagues on the merits of capability versus process. In the worst example, I engaged in an intense debate … Continue reading →

An extended principles template

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Most of the time principles is viewed as the highest form of governance. From random principles to actual governance entities there is sometimes a long road to travel. I use various templates to ease the pain of crafting the principles such that they can be considered expertly constructed, expressed in the finest of language and […]

What Squash can teach us about learning environments (Part 2)

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Continued from Part 1 (This blog post does not read very well if you haven’t already read Part 1). The full article is also available as a PDF document. Closed and forgiving environments breed bad habits Closed environments are those where the efforts of individuals within it are subject to little or no peer interactions. Forgiving environments are those […]

What Squash can teach us about learning environments (Part 1)

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Could the sport of Squash also teach us some useful organizational lessons? While the analogies between learning Squash and developing professional skills aren’t exact, both involve similar processes. Competitive sports mean game players become serious about having fun. The same spirit of having serious fun is sometimes absent from compartmentalized workplaces, where work seems to […]

June 26 Link Collection

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  • Obama IT Czar Leaves D.C. for Harvard – Technorati IT

    Setting direction is easy. Executing transformation is hard.

    “A massive task and challenge awaited Mr. Kundra as he sought to change the direction of the government’s $80 billion annual Information Technology budget. In December 2010 the changes in direction were outlined in his 25 point plan to reform government IT.

    Reports of his success levels vary, but no doubt Kundra stirred the pot and set a direction. Changing the direction of anything at the Federal government is not for the faint or impatient heart.”

    tags: execution transformation IT government

  • High Scalability – High Scalability – 35+ Use Cases for Choosing Your Next NoSQL Database

    “We’ve asked What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?. We’ve asked 101 Questions To Ask When Considering A NoSQL Database. We’ve even had a webinar What Should I Do? Choosing SQL, NoSQL or Both for Scalable Web Applications.

    Now we get to the point of considering use cases and which systems might be appropriate for those use cases.”

    tags: scalability nosql

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