7 years, 6 months ago
Enterprise Architecture Change is Coming. Are You Ready?
There is an impending change coming. In many ways this change is being driven by the move into The Cloud, (the commoditization of IT) and the move to Bring Your […]
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8 years, 10 months ago
The Zen of EA
Study existing business practices to create an understanding of the business model of your organization and its high-level business processes Engage with senior management to unlock the meaning of strategic intent Connect internal with middle management and external with the business community to uncover urgent needs and trends Build a panoramic understanding of the existing […]
8 years, 11 months ago
Visual Cliché in Architectural Discourse
@JohnCleese has made some great management training films, published by his company Video Arts. In the one I remember most vividly, he mocked the compulsive need for visual aids in corporate presentations by imagining what Hamlet’s soliloquy would be l…
8 years, 11 months ago
Enterprise Structure
#entarch There are some critical structural issues for business organizations, which have critical implications for IT architecture, including generating new requirements for management information systems and collaboration platforms. However, these st…
9 years, 4 days ago
The Google Car: Another piece in Google Ecosystem
I just love the folks at Google! I really do. You know why? Because they never stop reinventing what the company stands for. If it was a typical tech start-up company then they would be satisfied after reinventing search and then controll…
9 years, 23 days ago
Behold! The Gonkulator!
Pardon the Phineas and Ferb reference, but when I read this post from Chris Lockhart, I couldn’t help but think of Professor Doofenschmirtz and his inventions. I really liked this post from Chris and how it emphasizes understanding the nature of the problem at hand. I’ve had first hand experience at more than one company […]
9 years, 1 month ago
Is a MBA good for an EA?
A couple of weeks ago, I asked a simple question on Twitter: Should Enterprise Architects have/get an MBA? That meme made its way to InfoQ, so I figured I should actually post my own thoughts on the subject. First, a full disclaimer: I don’t have an MBA. I do have a MS in Computer Science […]
9 years, 2 months ago
Moore's Law, Air Travel Tech and PAYG
Jim Peters, CTO at SITA wrote an interesting blog a few days back – though it started off with an Intel announcement, Jim was really commenting on increasing demand for computing power. I posted the following comment to his blog post.In a sense the bus…
9 years, 2 months ago
Gartner 2010 Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture
Recently Gartner released the 2010 Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture (EA). It’s an interesting report. I’m not sure if there are really any surprises here but it worth looking at the macro themes of the report. You can find additional…
9 years, 2 months ago
Summer full of Clouds…..or?
The Cloud offering space is getting rather busy as we expected this summer. Capgemini annoucement of “Immediate” and its pilot with Royal Mail, closely follows other major developments such as IBM’s acquisition of Cast Iron. While IBM claims to get bet…
9 years, 5 months ago
An unusual blog post – obituary to C.K. Prahalad
Usually i restrict posts in this blog to the topics of strategic IT management and current technology topics. But this was not a usual man anyway. The legend who shaped thinking of modern managers is no more..I was introduced to his work during my MBA….
9 years, 8 months ago
Socially enabled BPM
All content written by and copyrighted by Todd Biske. If you are reading this on a site other than my “Outside the Box” blog, it’s probably being republished without my permission. Please consider reading it at the source. A succession of tweets between Forrester’s Gene Leganza and Clay Richardson along with Brenda Michelson of Elemental […]