IT Budget Reform

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Guest post by Raf Burde and Niket Desai Nearly all companies do some kind of annual budget at both the business unit and corporate levels. While many find the process unsatisfying and frustrating, little has been done to challenge this outdated approach. One source of frustration comes from a long planning process that doesn’t match our rapidly evolving business environment. Today’s companies require heightened financial flexibility, visibility, and precision from both their business and IT […]

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Embedding Intelligence into a Business Capability

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In some recent posts, I have talked about embedding different forms of intelligence in a business process. Intelligence may make the process more powerful, or it may merely make it more internally efficient. But in the examples I’ve looked at so far, t…

A week in Tweets: 14-20 November 2010

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Still somewhat in catch-up, so here’s another somewhat-late collection of Tweets and links – usual categories, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and all manner of business-related stuff:

oscarberg: RT @dcarli: Investors Don’t Care About Sustainability… Yet Accenture’s recent study w/ the U.N. confirms that CEOs do http://www.bit.ly/aH5dfg <important for #entarch – another side […]

Cybersecurity in a boundaryless world

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The core dilemma in public cybersecurity: Balancing boundarylessness and data security. The solution isn’t easy, but long-term, it lies in not relying on the security of the pipes or the perimeter, but improving the trust and security of the data itself. Security needs to be associated with data and people; not the connections and routers that carry it. Continue reading →

Unpacking business-architecture

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Just posted on Slideshare my slidedeck ‘Unpacking Business-Architecture‘, from the Biner/OpenGroup enterprise-architecture conference in Stockholm earlier this week.
It also represented the first fully public outing for the Enterprise Canvas model, and, in effect, the launch for my latest book, Mapping the Enterprise, which focusses on the Enterprise Canvas.
Unpacking business-architecture
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Many thanks […]

A week in Tweets: 7-13 November 2010

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Running way late on the weeklies – apologies. Usual categories, anyway, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, all that kind of stuff:

SAlhir: innovation is less abt product & more about culture RT @jorgebarba @ovoinnovation real product of #innovation http://ow.ly/1rqENf
oscarberg: RT @raesmaa: HBR: Stress-Test Your Strategy http://bit.ly/aFst5a <recommend #bmgen #bizarch #entarch #collab
CreatvEmergence: The Meaningful Organization: […]

Lost posts

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Courtesy of a screw-up shared somewhere between myself and my web-hosting provider, an old back-up was overlaid onto the whole of my websites. At least two posts were lost – the announcement of my new book ‘Mapping the Enterprise’ (describing the Enterprise Canvas), and “How not to integrate your IT-systems” (about a real doozy of […]

The IGIA-Framework

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During the summer of 2010 I worked with a literature review that basically dealt with how Enterprise Architecture (through Coherency Management) could be addressing the issue of rewiring the form of leadership which exists in the enterprise. The IGIA-Framework is a form of synthesis of various theories within the field of corporate governance, IT strategy, […]