The Open Group Conference, London: An open environment for challenging times

As the IT media is dominated by stories on Cloud and cyber-security, it will be refreshing to debate these in an open environment at The Open Group Conference, London, and discuss the many challenges we all face in navigating an increasingly complex IT…

Constitutional Change

This post is about the proposed change to the British electoral system, from “First Past The Post” (FPTP) to “Alternative Vote”. British electors will have the opportunity to make a choice between these two (and no other) options in next week’s referen…

Thoughts from Gartner BPM Summit

Gartner Business Process Management Summit is in full swing and after a jam-packed day of keynotes, sessions, roundtables and one-on-one conversations with BPM users, vendors and industry experts, we are seeing three major themes driving  BPM interest and adoption today – Visibility, Change and Results. Collaboration between business and IT Bringing together business and IT […]

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Fact and propaganda: war and real-time social-media

Right now I should be writing a formal paper on enterprise-architecture and social-media. Instead I’ve been tracking one small yet deeply fascinating (literally…) aspect of the rebellion in Libya: the social-media ‘war’ that’s happening on the LiveBlog pages (e.g. April 27, April 28) of the Al Jazeera English-language website.
I’m a complete outsider, of course, relative […]

Iteration #5 of a new Business Model for MTB Stage Races

Writing the Pitch! In the fifth iteration I’ve written a pitch to present the business idea as it would be presented to potential participants. The pitch answers the basic set of questions: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. The Pitch Welcome to Masters of the Trail 2012: For this nine-day event we are working […]

Enterprise Architecture and LEGO

When you do illustrations of enterprise architecture using Lego there are a couple of rules of thumb that may make the whole experience and the end result more pleasurable. draw a sketch of the design where you focus on capturing the essence of the architecture. use the LEGO Digital Designer to model the design. remember […]

BPMN vs. EPC revisited, part 2

The previous part focused on areas such as expressive power, readability and enterprise architecture. This one, written jointly with Roland Woldt, dwells on a few more aspects such as semi-structured processes, exceptions, loops and data handling. Some of them could be sorted well under the ‘expressive power’ heading but as stated in the previous post, […]

EA and Portfolio Management

In her IT Business Edge blog titled Enterprise Architecture Paying off at Del Monte, Loraine Lawson writes: Enterprise architecture (EA) befuddles me. As far as I can ascertain, it began as an IT function, but at some point, it was decided that EA is bigger than IT and really needs to work with the business […]

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