Protected: Coloured Thinking – Case Studies
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Book of the Month – Corporate Explorer by A. Binns, C. O’Reilly and M. Tushman
Popular perception is that the large companies are typically blindsided by disruptive innovation that changes the market they operate in, effectively becoming the victims of the disruption. This book argues that it is nothing more than one of the great myths of business as in reality the disrupted firms see the disruption coming and, moreover,…
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Enterprise Architects Must Master Both Core and Explore
As enterprise architects, we are always facing a two-logics situation. On one hand, we want to and need to understand, and as best we can, manage, the core of our enterprise. As our friend John Zachman famously said: “Someday, you’re going to wish you had all those models, enterprise-wide, horizontally and vertically integrated, at an…
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Enterprise Architects Need to Understand Business Architecture
When I talk to aspiring as well as seasoned enterprise architects it often strikes me how little focus they have on understanding the business they work in and with. Recently, I met an architect in a large government agency who explained that his enterprise might as well produce canned tomatoes – the architecting he did…
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Book of the Month – Business Architecture by Roger Burlton
Roger Burlton’s new book ‘Business Architecture: Collecting, Connecting and Correcting the Dots’ is a landmark publication in the BPM and business architecture field. Burlton presents ways to design a business so that it can get better at continuous enterprise level change. Today, organizations must never stop adapting to outside influences and see themselves outside-in rather…
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Fremtidens it-ledere
Rollerne i toppen af it-organistionen har forandret sig markant i de seneste ti år. John Gøtze ser muligheder for at udvikle rollen som CIO og CTO til en bred vifte af funktioner, hvis it-organisationen skal møde fremtidens behov for endnu større forretningsforståelse. CTO, Chief Technology Officer, er en cheftitel som bruges i mange forskellige sammenhænge. Jeg…
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Bedre offentlig IT
Mange steder i det offentlige system er man faktisk godt klar over, at anvendelsen af IT kunne være mere hensigtsmæssig, og i den seneste tid har hele 3 rapporter om digitalisering set dagens lys, alle initieret af det offentlige Danmark: Finansministeriets IT udredning om statslige it-projekter OECD rapporten: Denmark – efficient e-government for smarter public…
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Strategisk IT anvendelse
Når man leder og udvikler en moderne virksomhed, er man afhængig af IT hver dag. Men ofte giver IT anvendelsen ikke de ønskede resultater, fordi afgørende forudsætninger ikke holder, eller uforudsete komplikationer støder til. Det kan være udfordrende at styre virksomhedens IT anvendelse, fordi sammenhængen mellem ny teknologi og forretningsmæssige fordele er svær at gennemskue…
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EA for Innovation
Det er ofte hævdet, at begreber som strategisk planlægning og overordnet arkitektur står i direkte modsætning til innovativ udvikling. Påstanden bygger som regel på en misforstået opfattelse af, at strategisk tænkning altid er en topstyret proces, der skal resultere i et ensartet og forudsigeligt resultat. Men sådan behøver det slet ikke at være. EA som…
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Standardisering eller arkitektur? Begge dele, tak!
Efter sommerens høringskonference om de kommende ESDH standarder var deltagerne – og andre interessenter – inviteret til at indsende skriftlige kommentarer til de 5 specifikationer af forretningsservices, som skal supplere – og med tiden afløse – de eksisterende FESD standarder. De indkomne høringssvar er nu publiceret her. Der er grund til at bemærke høringssvaret fra Region Midtjylland, som stiller…
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