21 days ago
From the Editor: We’re not alone – Interdisciplinary collaboration
I was recently asked to speak at a Lunch &…
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24 days ago
Should you derive your IT Strategy from your Business Strategy? Probably not too much.
It is generally accepted that IT Strategy must follow Business Strategy. It seems a no-brainer. But is it? There are reasons to look at it differently, reasons that become more pressing as organisations become more digital.
25 days ago
How Architects Can Break Down Silos by ‘Thinking Digital’
In the first article in this series, I explained how architects can become ‘change experts’ in their organizations by working together to resolve technology silos. As per Conway’s Law, organizational silos will follow suit. This cross-organizational requirement to break down silos is a fundamental mandate of digital transformation, as organizations seek to build change itself…
26 days ago
Business Architecture Grid
In some of my posts, I have used the terms vertical and horizontal in relation to Business Architecture. The purpose of this post is to analyse what these terms actually mean.Firstly, the word vertical is often associated with value chain thinking. Typ…
1 month, 4 days ago
From the Editor: We’re not alone – Collaborating with other disciplines
Recently, I was invited to run a “lunch and learn”…
1 month, 9 days ago
Yes, 2-speed IT is real, but not like you think
The idea of 2-speed IT has been doing the round…
1 month, 13 days ago
The Techno-Singularity is Coming
Recent movies including The Matrix Series, The Hunger Games series, The Net, Spectre, and several others in the recent “James Bond” series, The Terminator Series, and hundreds of others, plus books like George Orwell’s 1984, Isaac Asimov’s The Fo…
1 month, 13 days ago
Yes, 2-speed IT is real, but not like you think
The idea of 2-speed IT has been doing the rounds for a while. It is now dying. But in a different way, it is actually a really important aspect of IT.
1 month, 14 days ago
Metadata as a Process
Data sharing and collaboration between different specialist areas requires agreement and transparency about the structure and meaning of the data. This is one of the functions of metadata.I’ve been reading a paper (by Professor Paul Edwards and others)…
1 month, 14 days ago
Right, Left, and the Singularity
Have you noticed that when you look for something on the web, almost immediately, you are inundated with the advertising of like products on YouTube or one of the weather websites? Sometimes when you are messaging a friend about a pest control s…
1 month, 16 days ago
Mapping the BIZBOK® Metamodel to the ArchiMate® Language
Since the foundation of the Business Architecture Guild a little over a decade ago, its Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK®), as expressed in the BIZBOK® Guide, has become a popular set of guidelines and techniques for practicing business architects. More recently, it has also defined its own metamodel, which you can read about in this whitepaper (published August…
1 month, 17 days ago
Does Google’s ‘Quantum Supremacy’ means QM Computing has arrived? Not so fast.
Follow-up to the earlier explanatory and critical post on Quantum Computing which addresses Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ achievement.