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Is ‘manager’ the same as ‘leader’? Are leaders always managers? And are hierarchies – and, in particular, classic management-hierarchies – always a natural, necessary and unavoidable fact of (larger) enterprises? These questions came up for me whilst reading three articles…
It didn’t look like much. Not worth much, certainly. It had been a gift from a friend, a former colleague: I’d had it for years, kept it reasonably safe in an old battered ring-case, until finally it was lost somewhere.…
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a webinar for the Project Management Bookstoreabout our book delivering EA with TOGAF and ArchiMate. In this webinar I gave a brief introduction to the field of Enterprise Architecture with an emphasis on TOG…
This all started when I first touched base with software architecture back in the 90’s, since then I’ve been drawn to the shaping of concepts to produce some sort of thing, be that business, software or technology. During the last four years I’ve been directing my inquiry into the field of enterprise architecture using the […]
Post co-authored by Rob Shelton, PwC’s Global Innovation Strategy Leader Last year if you asked a CEO what he or she is doing to achieve growth, the answer would have been investing in China. This year the answer is innovation. Business executives are banking on bold innovation to meet aggressive growth targets, so they are taking innovation more seriously than ever before. In the spirit of Peter Drucker who said, “innovation is work,” business executives […]
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As you may have read on my blog or even when you hear me present, I talk about how crucial soft-skills are to Enterprise Architects. In my personal opinion I think the majority of our success hinges on our ability…
What is it?The Brainstorm technique is focused on generating as many ideas as possible in a group of people. At this time quantity and diversity are more important then the quality of ideas. Participants achieve this by first coming up with ideas indi…
Chess Grandmasters master the application of concepts and apply them to situations.
I study chess and learn move sequences for Openings, Middle Game, Endings, etc and witness many people get caught up in debates around mov…
Chess Grandmasters master the application of concepts and apply them to situations. I study chess and learn move sequences for Openings, Middle Game, Endings, etc and witness many people get caught up in debates around move sequences. There seem to be endless debates which opening is the best defense for specific offense openings….
The OCIO of GNB Announces an Ambitious EA Roadmap using TOGAF® and Capability-Based Thinking On Wednesday September 25th, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) for the Government of New Brunswick (GNB) held an Enterprise Architecture (EA) Symposium for … Continue reading →
What are the differences between them and when to use each technique? If we think about maps the most familiar to us is possibly the road map. Then if we put multiple maps together we can create a road atlas. These are great for allowing us to see where we are and where we might […]
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