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You may encounter people who say: “I’m an architect.” I usually respond with: “Everyone’s an architect.” Why? An architect is not a label for a specific kind of person. Well in practice it is, but it should not be. What kind of person is associated with “architect”? Well, it depends. Usually it is “expensive”, or […]
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Did you know you can schedule an appointment with me to obtain research surrounding an issue you are facing right now? Inquiry is a subscription benefit that goes largely unexploited at many Gartner clients. Follow these tips and you’ll get your money’s worth. Some of you already know me but for those that don’t here are […]
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Welcome to my new Gartner Blog! It’s me, the Enterprise Architect formally know as “Mike The Architect” (a.k.a. Mike Walker) is back on the blogging scene. While I will not be blogging on Mike The Architect any longer you can find my latest travels here. I feel like I must be honest with you though. […]
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Welcome to my new Gartner Blog! It’s me, the Enterprise Architect formally know as “Mike The Architect” (a.k.a. Mike Walker) is back on the blogging scene. While I will not be blogging on Mike The Architect any longer you can find my latest travels here. I feel like I must be honest with you though. […]
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There are days when you just know you are right. It may not happen often, and certainly not with every topic, but it happens – and there is nothing more frustrating than knowing to the depths of your knowing-place that the path upon which others have…
Do you sometimes feel like an Enterprise Archaeologist instead of Enterprise Architect? :-)Please indulge me as I talk IT for a second. Age old legacy systems, thousands of shadow applications, complex dependencies and inability to respond to changing …
What would you get if you put a drop of sewage in a barrel of wine?
Pretty much the same thing you’d have if you put a drop of wine in a barrel of sewage. i.e. sewage. Personally, I wouldn’t drink from either barrel. There is something to…
We all know that Google lost a landmark legal case recently. As of now, a citizen of Europe has the “right to be forgotten” on the Internet. As of now, a citizen of Europe can ask Google to “forget” them, so that a search of their identity will not return embarrassing information from the past. …
A few days ago I had posted some thoughts about relationship between an Architect role and an Engineer role. I had referred to the Zachman Framework to explain the trade-off and dependencies in these two important role profiles. The…
Companies usually have installed an executive hierarchy. This hierarchy is one that has been evolved and tested over a long period of time. We have reasonably clear ideas about what it should establish. People have one boss, who more or less decides about their roles, assesses their performance, and decides what to do when the […]
… often follows what Freud called “kettle logic“.
“The problem doesn’t exist, and anyway it isn’t a problem for us, and anyway we’re already dealing with it.”
Imagine we ask a manager whether her organization experiences any of the Symptoms of Organizational Stupidity. Suppose she denies it, or says it doesn’t matter. Guess what – defensive denial is one of the symptoms on the list.
In 2008, Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes expressed some bewilderment at his competitor’s success.
“I’ve been frankly confused by this fascination that everybody has with Netflix. … Netflix doesn’t really have or do anything that we can’t or don’t already do ourselves.”
Denial is a key phase in the hype curve for new ideas (especially but not exclusively technological ones). A concept is rejected as meaningless, dangerous and/or unnecessary, while simultaneously being bundled together with earlier concepts.
“That concept doesn’t make sense, and even if it did it wouldn’t be technologically feasible, and anyway we already have a perfectly good word for it and lots of people are already doing it so we don’t need a new word.”
Brian Klapper, When Corporations Cannot Adapt (aka Fear the Kid in the Black t-shirt) (January 2013)
Related Posts: The Dynamics of Hype (Feb 2013)