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Published in Outsource Magazine As the media never tires of pointing out, the axis of world economic power is speedily shifting to the East, both in terms of working-age population and GDP. As many of our SME-sized IT service provider clients … Continue reading →
Published in ComputerWeekly The UK government’s recently announced cyber security threat information sharing partnership serves to underline the level of cyber risk organisations are facing. For those responsible for public and private sector IT services, it is of further concern … Continue reading →
Interview with ComputerWeekly In this video, Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran speaks to Navin Anand, executive consultant at ImprovIT about where outsourcing is heading. He says: “From an enterprise perspective, I would like to see outsourcers take an active role in … Continue reading →
At The Open Group Shanghai 2016 summit, we invited Dr. Giovanni Traverso, Chief Business Architect of HUAWEI Service Strategy and Architecture Practice, to give a keynote speech “New Open Business Architecture (O-BA) to Support the Construction of Digital Business and Smart Government”. … Continue reading →
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a stringent EU Regulation on privacy protection, which will go into effect in May 2018. Enterprise architects can play an important role in helping their organization be GDPR-compliant. Are y…
People have a complicated relationship with the concept of cause and effect. In spite of the old saying about the insanity of doing the same old thing looking for a different result, we hope against hope that this time it will work. Sometimes we inject unnecessary complexity into what should be very simple tasks, other […]
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Since the matched filter is close to its 50 birthday I wanted to post about this method that far to few are aware of. The matched filter is a method in signal processing to detect the presence of a given template. You may have actually encountered it in the detection of malware where it is … Continue reading Matched filters in architecture →
This post is not an episode of the ACME E&L story – that’ll continue soon. Last week, The Economist published “Siemens and General Electric gear up for the internet of things” with the tagline: “The American industrial giant is sprinting towards it…
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The architect has to gently let the stakeholders know that there is really no enterprise wide blueprint today, there never was and that the
One of the side effects of illness and injury (in my case a slipped disk) can be that your world becomes smaller. You don’t travel for your work. Your chance of being somewhere new is small. You move more slowly and aren’t up to long trips. It’s not feasible to go to all those special places, where […]
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Unfortunately, there is so much misunderstanding of EA in the enterprise and elsewhere. And misunderstanding comes indeed at the cost of false expectations. Various and bewildering deman…