How Does IT Impact Business Productivity?

Print PDF Guest post by Nalneesh Gaur Nick Carr’s controversial article on "IT doesn’t matter" published in 2003 noted that infrastructure technology is easily copied thus providing no competitive advantage. Yet, savvy businesses continue to pursue technology innovations to gain competitive advantages or improve business productivity in order to provide greater shareholder value, growth, and stability. Businesses that drive consistent productivity improvements have recognized the linkage between the need to drive innovation and discretionary spend […]

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National Public Radio (NPR) seems to wake my imagination.  This morning they had a story about IBM’s Watson. Watson is IBM’s computer that is squaring off against two Jeopardy champions – the shows air for the next 3 days. I wonder how many people will begin to believe that Watson actually thinks? I’m sure it […]

Towards Business-IT Confluence

Information technology has traditionally been seen as mere “cost of doing business” that is “aligned” with business at best. As IT infrastructure has commoditized at operational levels and the business environment has become increasingly complex, howev…

Weekly Finds – Link Post

Column 2 : SAP Analytics Update
I was on this call. Nice of Sandy to document it for all of us. I’m interested in the Event Processing ties. Will get more info from SAP on Event Insight closer to the Feb 23 launch.
“A group of bloggers had an update…

A week in Tweets: 06-12 February 2011

Another week – a busy one, this time. There were all the Tweets from the Open Group San Diego conference (previously posted here); but beyond that, two great back-and-forth conversations, on top of all the usual Tweets and links. Usual categories, of course: read more?

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and other ‘business’-type themes:

CreatvEmergence: “create without possessing, […]

TOGAF Architecture Development Method

The TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) provides complete guidance for implementing and executing an organization’s enterprise architecture. The process consists of multiple, consecutive phases enclosed in a closed loop
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Journal of Enterprise Architecture February 2011

Journal of Enterprise Architecture
February 2011 – Volume 7, Number 2
Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze
Architect in the Spotlight: Philip Allega
Articles
A conceptual framework for architecture principles
Erik Proper and Danny Greefhorst
A Process Driven Approach to Modelling Leadership
David Tuffley […]

Belonging

A great conversation yesterday with Australian facilitator Helena Read, around the word ‘belonging’, and how it links with vision and enterprise-vision.
In the enterprise, vision is the anchor for everything: the quality-system, the business-purpose, the enterprise itself. It’s a very human focus, literally emotive: “that which gets me out of bed in the morning”, and so […]