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During this two-day workshop at your organization, Cutter Senior Consultant Mike Rosen will explore the requirements for the new digital economy and describe the new “Digital Business Platform” necessary to meet those requirements and sustain success. …
As enterprise-architecture expands outward (see video) to a much broader scope and scale (see video), we’ll need a different kind of anchor for the architecture itself: less on means such as IT or money, more on aims, ends and purpose. In short, a…
The advent of public cloud services has enabled smaller companies to compete more effectively against larger enterprises. This article discusses phenomenon and using DevOps and agile thinking to help large companies compete with small organizations. Co…
An enterprise architect friend of mine recently posed an interesting question: “I lead a relatively mature EA practice that delivers good value to our organization. We are digitally transforming the organization and adopting agile ways of working acros…
What exactly is ‘the enterprise’ in enterprise-architecture? To what extent is that enterprise a shared-enterprise? And how does this affect enterprise-architecture itself? These questions have come up a lot in the past few weeks, in back-and-forth conversations on LinkedIn and elsewhere. The…
I get models and diagrams presented to me in many different forms and levels of quality. In this blog I want to look at talk at improving ArchiMate Model Quality by telling a story with your Archimate views, and covering some other basics. Continue re…
@rachelcoldicutt notes that “Google Docs new grammar suggestion tool doesn’t like the word ‘funding’ and prefers ‘investment’ “.Many business people have an accounting mindset, in which all expenditure must be justified in terms of benefit to the organ…
Creating a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) requires thought and planning. This blog explores what a BCP is, a high level approach to defining a BCP and how it differs from a Disaster Recover Plan (DRP). Continue reading →
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The Professional Petroleum Data Expo was held April in Houston by the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM). This conference is one of several events this spring where The Open Group Open Subsurface Data Universe™ (OSDU) Forum unveiled a new standard in development that will facilitate movement of oil and gas company exploration, production, and wells data from in-house IT systems to cloud services.
The Open Group was a sponsor of the event, and had a presence in the exhibition hall. There was a steady stream of attendees with questions about the Open Subsurface Data Universe Forum, and about the emerging standard.
Are algorithms trustworthy, asks @NizanGP.”Many of us routinely – and even blindly – rely on the advice of algorithms in all aspects of our lives, from choosing the fastest route to the airport to deciding how to invest our retirement savings. But shou…
What does #TechnologyEthics look like from the viewpoint of your average ethics professor? Not surprisingly, many ethics professors believe strongly in the value of ethics education, and advocate ethics awareness training for business managers and eng…
If you want to understand what our enterprise-architecture disciplines really need to be able to address, take a good long look at the healthcare context. Complexity of every possible kind: whole-of-system interactions, interweaving lifecycles, the urgent mixed in with the long-term –…