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I cannot take credit for that aphorism… credit goes to Jan Van Til. He coined the term after reading Tom Graves’ excellent post on the architecture of responsibility. Tom’s post details the philosophical challenges of a responsibility…
I’ve been blogging at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara today. My posts are at elemental cloud computing:
@ Cloud Connect 2011: Colin Clark introduces Cloud Event Processing
@ Cloud Connect: Design Patterns in the Cloud: A Love Story
@ Clo…
You can look at the world around us as categorized into three kinds of relationships – Explicit, Implicit, and Inferred. Using Rational System Architect, you can automatically visualize all of these relationships on any diagram type.
What do you want to achieve by using business process management (BPM) software? Address compliance and risk management issues? Improve your customer service? Integrate data across existing applications? To achieve these goals, some organizations look to leverage a robust BPM suite, while others are simply trying to improve their processes using BPM. Regardless of intentions […]
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Yesterday, I attended the first of the three-day Open Group Conference held at Chennai, India. It was a pleasure to meet like-minded fellow enterprise architects and discuss the challenges that we face and opportunities ahead of us. Continue reading &#…
I have been enriched by this experience on two counts: By sharing my thoughts with the distinguished audience I have gained deeper appreciation of my topic; and by listening to the great presentations I’ve heard at The Open Group India Conference. Cont…
Alex Cullen of Forrester posted an interesting blog regarding the “inevitable trend” of business empowerment. At the recent Forrester EA Forum, they invited attendees to rate on a 1-5 scale, whether or not “the EA function has close ties with business management” and whether or not the “technology strategy and standards allow for rapidly changing […]
I’m finalizing my presentation for Business Ecology Initiative’s Optimization for Innovation conference slated for March 22nd in Washington DC. Initially, I was approaching it as a humorous rejoinder on how to cope with taking the reigns of an or…
Following on from the previous post on ‘Possessed by possession‘, if it’s true that there is no way to make a possession-based economy sustainable, then it seems worthwhile to take a look at some of the implications.
First, though, a story, and a warning, from history.
I’ll admit I’m no true scholar of Australian Aboriginal history or […]
I’m finalizing my presentation for Business Ecology Initiative’s Optimization for Innovation conference slated for March 22nd in Washington DC. Initially, I was approaching it as a humorous rejoinder on how to cope with taking the reigns of an or…
I’m finalizing my presentation for Business Ecology Initiative’s Optimization for Innovation conference slated for March 22nd in Washington DC. Initially, I was approaching it as a humorous rejoinder on how to cope with taking the reigns of an or…