Controls and Trust

I am appalled as I look at systems in various companies with whom I have consulted, or who have employed me at the lack of system controls in key places. If you are in the data delivery business and you have agreements with your customers, wouldn’t you…

“To Be” Enterprise Architecture 2010-07-04 07:48:00

It is not my intent in writing to this Enterprise Architecture blog to spend any time getting caught in the old-school EA mentality of thinking in an Enterprise Architecture-centric way. I share Mike Rolling’s of Burton Group’s perspective in this re…

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This is Landmark: Google's entry in a vertical industry ecosystem

Folks,In case you have not heard or read about it yet…please do take a note of this. It is a landmark development. It is an event which marks Google’s entry into an industry vertical ecosystem. On July 1, 2010, Google announced an agreement to acquir…

Programme Portfolio Optimisation

Enterprise Architecture provides an engine to identify where tweaks & amendments need to be made in order to provide valid and coherent IT systems, process and infrastructure that supports business operations.One of the difficulties facing Program…

Programme Portfolio Optimisation

Enterprise Architecture provides an engine to identify where tweaks & amendments need to be made in order to provide valid and coherent IT systems, process and infrastructure that supports business operations.One of the difficulties facing Program…

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Observations on Silos

In this posting Richard Veryard  examines the value of silos and silo thinking in organizations. In some ways silos are necessary organizational mechanisms because they place boundaries on functional activities. However they are also creature…