Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
James Garner Ptaszynski, Ph.D. – Senior Director, World Wide Higher Education Strategy jimp@microsoft.com Microsoft Priorities for Higher Education – Creating the University of the Future – Today (stop waiting for tommorrow’s …
Anthony Salcito, VP World Wide Education, Microsoft – tonysa@micorosoft.com 617-877-2780 Technology in Education – Expect More Today’s Challenges attract and retain students, researchers and academics in an increasingly competitive en…
Time is running out to submit your Innovative Event Processing entry to the Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) Awards Program. There are two contests:
Innovative Event Processing Principles Contest. The contest is open to private persons from …
The Open Group Conference, San Diego: I’ve found these conferences over the past five years an invaluable venue for meeting and collaborating with CIOs, enterprise architects, standards stewards and thought leaders on enterprise issues. It’s one of the few times when the mix of technology, governance and business interests mingle well for mutual benefit. Continue reading →
Unicom has released a limited number of places on my Organizational Intelligence workshop next week, at a special price of £195 plus VAT. To apply for one of these places, please contact Unicom as soon as possible, quoting code OI-9211-W5. This off…
The CEO was referred to as ‘the architect of the enterprise’ long before ‘Enterprise Architecture’ was coined. The ‘architect’ metaphor was used in 60s and 70s and became quite present in the strategy management literature of the early 80s. And really, big part of the job of C-level executives is to manage (different domains of) […]
I seem to be on a roll writing about my impressions of Forrester Research articles recently. I meant to dig into a blog post by Forrester Research analyst Henry Peyret from December, 2010 earlier. Henry explains the approach taken to gather informati…
Rob Koplowitz of Forrester recently posted, Why Tibbr Matters. He provided some examples of where an activity stream across a network like Tibbr could add value, and some examples where it couldn’t. I responded with a comment and I wanted to elaborate on my comments here. Activity streams tied to your company that are available […]
I have taken a break of couple of weeks and currently traveling through India. This does not mean that I take a break from my Social Media activities though and I will continue to blog, twitt, poke and link as much as my travels allow. Besides travels …
I’ve come to some interesting conclusions regarding Roadmaps that I thought might be interesting to others. About two years ago, I was given responsibility on behalf of the Enterprise Architecture team to provide Roadmaps on behalf of MSFT’…
We really can’t explore the theme of people in enterprise-architecture without addressing the theme – and problem – of power.
In principle, power should be straightforward. The physics definition – roughly speaking – is that power is the ability to do work. Wherever there’s work to be done – in whatever form that that ‘work’ might […]
Print PDF Is your company planting seeds in countries that have the most fertile ground for innovation? That’s an important question for CIOs who are thinking strategically about technology’s impact on the business. In a global business ecosystem, a nimble competitor can leapfrog you with an unanticipated technology advance. Or you can tap into these ideas first. But if your innovation portfolio doesn’t extend outside the U.S., you’re probably missing something. I’ve written before about […]
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