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The economy of the last hundred years was driven by growth and a young generation with lots of needs helped to fuel that growth. Unless you life in Africa this is going to change as the demographics are changing. This means that latest in eight years (usually earlier) the economics will change and as such … Continue reading Too old →
Services serve: they serve the needs of someone, or, in a broader ecosystem, the needs of something. Services serve – that’s why they’re called ‘services’. Yet what do we call something that purports to serve some need, but doesn’t? I’d suggest…
By The Open Group Cyber threats are becoming an increasingly critical issue for both companies and governments. The recent disclosure that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management had been hacked is proof that it’s not just private industry that is … Continue reading →
“Never expect someone to get it if their income, job or status depend on not getting it” – that’s a challenge that enterprise-architects and others face every single day… Within the enterprise, we’re tasked with finding ways to implement and support…
Do you remember Inquire? Properly not and I definitely not. It was the Database System in the early 70s and Infonaut who produced it had nearly a monopoly on the database market, 10 years before Oracle and Sybase entered. And it was a non SQL big table implementation. So funny enough non SQL systems are … Continue reading The company that nearly destroyed non-SQL DBMS →
Sharing knowledge and good practices is one of the core values of BiZZdesign. We regularly organize and contribute to online and offline seminars, conferences and round tables sessions. Recently there was a very successful seminar on Enterprise Risk and Security Architecture for Dutch financial institutions. After a presentation on “Security is not an IT problem”, the lacking relations between policies and measures was discussed. Then we had a World Café on various topics to learn from each other. Please share your good and worst practices by reacting to this blog.
Where to start with this one? Where the heck do I start? How do I get it to stay still long enough that I can start? Threads. Words. Sort-of. Except that as soon as I start to write, it’s gone anyway.…
While a digital strategy is now a mandatory requirement for corporations the world over, there are varying perspectives of what a digital strategy should comprise, often reflecting the authorship of the strategy within the offices […]
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Architects, Analysts, Modelers, and Managers are busy people, any time-saving methods are always welcome. Here are ten essential BiZZdesign Architect shortcuts that you may not know about, but could end up saving you precious time.
Design Thinking is more than thinking differently; it is working with, and for, people from the very beginning in order to create better outcomes. The key is engaging your executive sponsor and demonstrating enough value […]
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“Nobody plans to fail, they only fail to plan.” These tend to be the first words you hear after missing some obvious element in an otherwise brilliant solution. A good friend of mine once had to call the police to open the locked trunk of his car. Se…
"Nobody plans to fail, they only fail to plan." These tend to be the first words you hear after missing some obvious element in an otherwise brilliant solution. A good friend of mine once had to call the police to open the locked trunk of his car. Seems the last thing he did before shutting the lid was to place his keys on his coat, which was in the trunk. He had a back-up key, which was in