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The Internet of Things (IoT) came into sharper focus for me at a PADNUG meetup during a presentation from Jeremy Foster, a Microsoft developer evangelist. Jeremy connected a battery-operated toy
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‘Going to the cloud’ seems to be a hype amongst CxO’s. Since its potential is so widely acknowledged and advertised and its opportunities seem endless, digitization of the organization is the New Normal. But what exactly does this digitization comprise? And, more importantly, can we exploit all this potential? Answering those questions seems far more difficult than following the hype and ‘just doing it because everybody else is’.
What’s a quick way to keep reminding ourselves about effectiveness in the enterprise, and that tagline of “things work better when they work together, on-purpose”? My suggestion for this is the somewhat-contrived acronym LEARN: eLegant – clarity, simplicity, consistency, ‘feel’, self-adapting…
As with any activity in the enterprise, there must somebody in charge of the
– work definition and planning
– work repartition, delegation and coordination
– decision making
– general team and financial management
– budget planning and spending
-…
I write this post as part of a fond farewell to the University of Bristol as I have now concluded my very enjoyable 4 years as Enterprise Architect there and I have just moved on to the role of Senior Enterprise Architect at the University down the road – UWE! UWE are building quite a […]
This post is part of a fond farewell to the University of Bristol as I have now finished a very enjoyable 4 years as Enterprise Architect there and I have just moved on to the role of Senior Enterprise Architect at the University down the road – UWE! UWE are building quite a significant EA […]
What’s a simple tagline that we can use to help guide conversations about enhancing of enterprise-effectiveness? My own preference is this: things work better when they work together, on purpose. Okay, I’ll admit that that doesn’t quite give us the full…
Have we reached a period of capitalist decadence where for some, Business has become an Art form?
How does this happen?
Is this what happens when you are free to move beyond profit?
1) Subsistance-> 2) Profit-> 3) Beyond Profit = Art
Maybe this is just the logical next step towards decadence, as over time the focus on value for organisations has shifted like so:
1) Value to customers -> 2) Value to business owner -> 3) Value to Shareholders -> 4) Decadence
As the point of focus moves further away from the point of real value creation to a place place of decadent abstraction, so the decisions that are made can become freer and artful.
it enables you to, for example, acquire a loss making organisation with a hockey stick growth curve but no plan for monetising user adoption and no hope of profit.
It enables you to forget about a return on an acquisition (Most of them degrade value anyway, so lets just stop pretending and buy).
I’m not saying this concept applies across the board, just as there are still subsistance farmers (and always will be), but it does appear to me that certain organisations in certain sectors have achieved a level of abstraction (from value creation) and therefore decadence to start to build business as Art.
Maybe this post doesn’t make any sense at all, How can business be art> how can it achieve decadence when every organisation has to go through the same (but maybe accelerated) growth phases?
Maybe its because, actually, depending upon the business model of the organisation, it doesn’t really matter what you do inside the organisation. The vague direction of triumph or plight is already set, like a behemoth supertanker, in a direction dictated by the business model and its market context at a point in time, the pilots of the supertanker are merely trying to steer it by flapping their arms.
In writing this post i’m not saying this is a positive or negative phenomenon, it just is. It also makes me wonder what sort of organisation a Silicon Valley dwelling Salvador Dali would have built?
Heres to the new surrealism, decadent capitalist art!
Just came across an interesting post by Colin Bannon, CTO BT this morning. The infographic which he has shared compares and contrasts the Old or a more traditional operating model of IT with a new, evolving operating model of IT. While I have…
Just came across an interesting post by Colin Bannon, CTO BT this morning. The infographic which he has shared compares and contrasts the Old or a more traditional operating model of IT with a new, evolving operating model of IT. While I have…
Once you move past your junior positions in our trade you quickly encounter the strange being of the senior business sponsor/owner/executive. He is usually only interested in two things. The one thing are options to move ahead (usually prefers clean cut ones that are easy but not too easy to understand) and story boards. This … Continue reading On Stupidity – Storytelling →
Looking into the future is something that we as humans always will due as our brain is designed around predictions to stay sane, at least as long as we are healthy we block certain possibilities out of our mind and we have the tendency to fantasise about some great things. Most architects will usually have … Continue reading On Stupidity – Roadmaps →