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What is more important? Enterprise Architecture or Architect

Future of CIO

It spurs an interesting debate: What is more important, enterprise architecture or enterprise architect? The framework is one of the tools in the EA kitbag, but the entire process of being an EA involves understanding the enterprise. A good architecture with poor implementation gives poor results. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu.

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Overcome Barriers to Accelerate Transformative Changes

Future of CIO

Cutting out waste such as shrinking the gap between different business functions could make a significant contribution to accelerating changes and the sooner it starts the better it will be for all involved. Communication gaps decrease productivity, stifle change, cause mistrust, and decelerate the business speed.

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Three “Soft” IT Management Disciplines to Drive Digital Transformation

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Machines, tools, and environments that IT professionals use will become more powerful, easy-to-use and knowledge-base. Build the people advantage in IT : As businesses become so dynamic, how to develop and manage their people is often the most challenging soft discipline.

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The Systematic Effort Behind IT Magic

Future of CIO

Information management is not just about IT, but about the business across the enterprise scope. Whether a CIO should and can take the lead in strategic initiatives is dependent on whether they are a trusted source of cross-discipline information flow and gap minders of silo functions and business processes.

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What is Business Exchange - Social, Agile, and Transformation

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. What is Business Exchange. Startups and Enterprises.

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EA & Five-Dimensional Business Capability Map

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Modern EA needs to shift from technology-focus to business focus, to help business blueprint capability map, then base on such sets of business capabilities & unique competency, EA need help further craft capability-driven strategy planning and create a vision for the enterprise, and provide the guide to execute it seamlessly.