Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Managing to keep up to date at present, so here’s the list of Tweets and links for the week (and year) just past. Usual categories, of course.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business strategy and suchlike:
tetradian: [post] Where is the information when we need it? http://bit.ly/hPBME3 #entarch #itarch #orgarch #systems
jdevoo: MIT SMR Analytics: New Path to Value http://bit.ly/g0ExUs – […]
Yes, it’s that time of year again, when it’s worthwhile reflecting on the old adage that we overestimate what we can do in a week, or a month, but underestimate what we can do in a whole year.
Right now I’m in one of those dreaded between-project spaces where nothing much seems to be happening. On […]
Every week I read / react to lot of tweets / posts dealing with a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content to be found on the web that can be of interest to many of my kinds. My only regrets is that I hardly keep memories of these interesting thoughts / information. This blog […]
The architects who are first in the field and awaits the coming of the problem, will be fresh for the task; the architects who are second in the field and has to react to the problem will be worn out by the task. Therefore the clever architect imposes his will on the problem, but does […]
Information World published the Enterprise Architecture Awards for 2010 today. Kudos to InfoWorld and Forrester. It is great to see this kind of socialization of EA successes. We often talk about the programs that haven’t worked instead of showcasing all…
This post follows on from the introduction to thinking about time posted here.
In the previous post, I introduced a few of the nuanaces of time. It isn’t about the obvious things like format, timezone, precision, calendar, etc. Those are important and…
This post follows on from the introduction to thinking about time posted here.In the previous post, I introduced a few of the nuanaces of time. It isn’t about the obvious things like format, timezone, precision, calendar, etc. Those are important and c…
Why do EA initiatives fail to deliver on their promise? (PA#1.1) Why did Spock fail to be logical? (PA#1.2) We only ask people and projects to be compliant never committed to the vision presented by EA. (PA#1.3) EA is envisioned, built and executed as a static structure but sold as the generator of dynamic behavior. […]
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” said Alan Kay, one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces, back in 1971 as quoted in SmallTalk.org. That’s sage advice for the CIO trying to determine where technology is headed, and what it means for the company. Seventy percent of the senior business and IT executives in PwC’s Diamond Advisory Services’ 2010 Digital IQ study said that […]
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