Unconventional Archive

  • If the word 'digital' summons images of calculator watches from the late 80s, then you understand my angst.  We should be discussing how analog solutions, those with high levels of fidelity and granularity can be leveraged to better understand, predict and enable our customers and our businesses.

    Being Anti-Digital (aka Going Analog)

    If the word 'digital' summons images of calculator watches from the late 80s, then you understand my angst. We should be discussing how analog solutions, those with high levels of fidelity and granularity can be leveraged to better understand, predict and enable our customers and our businesses.

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  • Don't worry. Don't panic. Use the crisis as a pretext for taking bold, dramatic action to improve your business and set your capabilities on  new, improved footing. Emerge from the crisis stronger than you were when it began.

    Don’t Stop the World

    Don't worry. Don't panic. Use the crisis as a pretext for taking bold, dramatic action to improve your business and set your capabilities on new, improved footing. Emerge from the crisis stronger than you were when it began.

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  • Next to the perennial favorite "What Enterprise Architecture is and/or is not," I'm inclined to believe debates over frameworks are the hottest debates going right now. Why is that?

    Frankenframeworks

    Next to the perennial favorite "What Enterprise Architecture is and/or is not," I'm inclined to believe debates over frameworks are the hottest debates going right now. Why is that?

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  • There are many challenges that CIO's are facing in today's cloudy, jargony, swirling maelstrom of Information Technology. But isn't there something missing in the conversation that totally supersedes these challenges?

    On The CIO’s Top Challenges

    There are many challenges that CIO's are facing in today's cloudy, jargony, swirling maelstrom of Information Technology. But isn't there something missing in the conversation that totally supersedes these challenges?

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  • There is much to recommend about changing how we create, deploy and offer our services and products to customers. Yet there is an entire consulting industry built around avoiding the pitfalls of cloud.

    Cloud in a Box

    There is much to recommend about changing how we create, deploy and offer our services and products to customers. Yet there is an entire consulting industry built around avoiding the pitfalls of cloud.

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