Service-design: How long is a service?
It was my grandmother’s 80th birthday. My parents wanted to make it a special occasion for her and for the family, so they booked us in for a meal at a place called Le Talbooth – then, as now, a decidedly…
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McKinsey’s nine questions for the digital transformation (iv)
continuing
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“Is your IT operating at two speeds?”
As much that sounds weird today, when Gartner talks about a “two mode IT”,
McKinsey’s nine questions for the digital transformation (iv)
continuing
Comments on McKinsey’s article on “Nine questions to help you get your digital transformation right”
“Is your IT operating at two speeds?”
As much that sounds weird today, when Gartner talks about a “two mode IT”,
Stay away from large groups of architects
Have you seen that large groups of people (especially men) can often make really bad decision or behave badly, while each single member of the group will never do anything so stupid? I think we have all seen this and if not just go back in history where you will see many example of this … Continue reading Stay away from large groups of architects →
Premises and principles for business system modelling (Part 2)
From the Editor: Graham Berrisford from Avancier Ltd has provided…
Premises and principles for business system modelling (Part 1)
From the Editor: Graham Berrisford from Avancier Ltd has provided…
The Enterprise Architect is no Project Manager though it can be
It is said that Enterprise Architecture is a tool for transformation. it is among other things. Without an EA, a transformation is blind. It does not see the objects around and in its path. Thus, the transformation bumps into them or it fails to see th…
UNIX®: Allowing Engineers to Engineer
By Darrell May, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle® Oracle® Solaris innovation is due in part to the UNIX® standard,[1] the test suites,[2] and the certification.[3] By conforming to the standard, using the test suites[4] and driving to certification, Oracle® Solaris … Continue reading →
Open Group on business-capabilities – a quick review
You might perhaps describe this piece as “praising with faint damns” – but oh, it’s so nice to be able to say something nice for once about The Open Group! Okay, yeah, maybe a bit unkind to start this that…
McKinsey’s nine questions for the digital transformation (iii)
“Do you have mechanisms to challenge ideas?”
“Are your people empowered to act?”
McKinsey’s nine questions for the digital transformation (iii)
“Do you have mechanisms to challenge ideas?”
“Are your people empowered to act?”
Laying the Foundation for Digital Business Transformation
The market is moving quickly, and we are constantly being tasked with improving on performance to drive better results and justify our positions. To do this we need to bring in digital technologies to facilitate every aspect of the business, and gather data for analysing performance and finding areas to improve. This goes for everything…