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On Thursday, August 16 at 8:00 a.m. PT/ 4:00 p.m. BST/5:00 p.m. CET, identity management experts will host a webinar to discuss the key concepts in identity management today. Continue reading →
#entarch #bizarch #viewpoints In a previous post, I looked at the five viewpoints of business architecture according to the OMG. In this post, I shall look at the architectural modelling viewpoints indicated in TOGAF 9.1. (Section 8.2). In TOGAF, these…
IT costs were always a worry, but only an occasional one. Cloud computing has changed that. One of the essential characteristics of cloud computing is “measured service.” Resource usage is measured by the byte transmitted, the byte stored, and the mill…
I attended the summer school dealing with enterprise architecture that took place at IT University of Copenhagen in week 31 of 2012. A lot of interesting presentations and debates took place. I found quite a few interesting topics to think about and one of them dealt with the philosophy of enterprise architecture, which is the […]
One of the core tasks in enterprise-architecture is sensemaking – making sense of what’s going on within some context. And one of the key methods we can use for this is to make some kind of mental-map of what seems to…
By Henry Franken, BIZZdesign Models have played an important role in business for a long time. Process models, information- and data models, application landscapes, strategic models, operational models – you name it, organizations have tried it. …
In this fourth “Entities and Entitlement” video, we explain the bigger picture – why identity is not just about people. It’s about all things – we call them “entities” – that we want to identify in our digital world. An identity ecosystem d…
A few days ago Pradeep (I don’t know his surname, unfortunately) wrote a comment to one of my previous posts, asking for advice on learning enterprise-architecture: I aspire to become a enterprise architect. Not sure if you have written on a…
#bizarch #entarch Most enterprise architecture frameworks put LOCATION into the business architecture domain. So am I merely being contrarian when I ask whether it really belongs there?
My first point is that some IT people may regard the business arc…
Skills That Will Remain in Demand In a Computer-Rich World
“How do we win the “man-vs.-machine” battle?
The key is not to compete, but to partner — to develop new ways of combining human skills with ever-more-powerful technology to create value.
Another key, on a more personal level, is to work on skills that help you couple the best of human creativity with computer power. These kinds of jobs are where many of the best future opportunities will lie.”
Skills needed according to Brynjolfsson and McAfee: Applied math & stats, negotiation and group dynamics, good writing, framing problems and solving open-ended problems, persuasion, human interaction and nurturing.
Life’s Work: Sally Ride – Harvard Business Review
“Sally Ride thought she’d grow up to be a physics professor, and she did. But before that, she became the first American woman in space. She went on to found Sally Ride Science, a company focused on improving science education for kids, which she called a “business imperative for the country.” She died in July, at age 61, just weeks after talking with HBR. Interviewed by Alison Beard”
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The second video of the five-video series from the Jericho Forum on identity management, discussing “Operating with Personas.” Continue reading →
The number of individuals certified in the TOGAF® 9 certification program as of July 1st 2012 is 14,851. This represents a doubling of the number of individuals certified in the last 12 months with 7,640 new certifications during that period. The late…