Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
This past Thursday my colleague Kirk Knoernschild pointed out a blog post by Alistair Cockburn about Taylorism creeping into the world of agile. Alistair’s post ignited a discussion within Gartner’s IT1 team reflecting on how it applied to our own agile work practices. What follows are some of my insights about the dangers of Tayloristic […]
@Cybersal complains about Amazon. “Yet again Amazon ships a tiny book with an unreliable courier that my postman could have shoved through my letterbox.” and explains “Post office 10 min walk. Courier depot 30 min drive. Courier not a good option fo…
I’ve just been reading Geoffrey Moore’s new white paper Systems of Engagement and The Future of Enterprise IT : A Sea Change in Enterprise IT (AIIM 2011). He calls out a major shift of emphasis in IT, from what he calls Systems of Record (focused on tr…
What data do we use to make decisions? Do we rely on the most up to date information possible? Do we use rough approximations? How do we reason about our decision thinking. Taking a concrete example first, I will then look for further insights and, of …
What data do we use to make decisions? Do we rely on the most up to date information possible? Do we use rough approximations? How do we reason about our decision thinking. Taking a concrete example first, I will then look for further insights and, of …
More enterprise-architecture stuff, this time about the relationship between trust, value and money.
This starts from a Tweet by Swedish consultant Oscar Berg, which triggered off a back-and-forth flurry:
oscarberg: The main currencies of business have always been information & trust. They let us exchange favors, goods/money […]
So many things in our life are governed by the idea that we can control the outcome. Take strategy as as an example. For years strategists have operated under the false notion that strategies were conceived, plans created and execution of the plan happened. This resulted in an elite view of conducting strategy and the […]
“There is nothing more horrible than to walk to fault line between new and old, seeing what the future holds, screaming about it in your art and writing, and finding only mute incomprehension or dismissal in your audience.” – Joshua Cooper Ramos, T…
“There is nothing more horrible than to walk to fault line between new and old, seeing what the future holds, screaming about it in your art and writing, and finding only mute incomprehension or dismissal in your audience.” – Joshua Cooper Ramos, T…