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The Value of Business Architecture

Future of CIO

Business Architecture (BA) contains the organizational context and is strategic in that it gives direction to the business design and transformation. To recognize the transformation before it’s too late: Daily business change may be mechanical, but the business transformation is more radical.

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Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and Innovation.

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What transformational leaders too often overlook

CIO Business Intelligence

But for all the emphasis on cutting-edge technology for business transformation, IT infrastructure too often gets short shrift. But sometime after the dotcom meltdown, it became common practice for IT professionals to try to hide IT complexity from the general business community.

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A Dynamic EA

Future of CIO

Enterprise Architecture is a living thing. High mature enterprises are on the journey to pursue business agility in order to adapt to the accelerated changes and hyper-competition or complexity as well. Can Enterprise Architecture evolve and match such business dynamics? Any framework has predefined constraints.

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Openness and Collaboration: Final Takeaways from TM Forum

TM Forum

Open digital architectures and application programming interfaces (APIs) will be at the heart of these initiatives, not only because they can help simplify legacy CSP technology, but also enable more rapid co-development of cutting-edge products and services. They’re bolder, leaner, and more agile.

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Three Tips for CIO as Chief Innovation Officer

Future of CIO

The issue many IT departments have is they think innovation is implementing the latest and greatest technology rather than using advances in technology or existing technology differently to provide innovative solutions for business now and in the future. Make the effort a "lessons learned" exercise to share.

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Ten Reasons Software Developers Need the Cloud - Social, Agile.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, October 06, 2009.