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		<title>On The CIO&#8217;s Top Challenges</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/09/09/on-the-cios-top-challenges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture is Not: A White Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/08/18/architecture-is-not-a-white-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An architecture that is merely a PDF with a couple of generic line-box-arrow diagrams coupled with a few colorful "pancake" pictures isn't really an architecture. It's a marketing glossy. A white paper is too generic to be passed off as a real solution to a real problem. ]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud in a Box</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/08/15/cloud-in-a-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrisonea.com/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>10 Signs You&#8217;re Not REALLY a Director of IT</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/05/19/10-signs-yourre-not-really-a-director-of-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 19:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrisonea.com/?p=388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Title inflation/mis-direction is vermicious. Like a Knid.]]></description>
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		<title>A Capabilities-based Architecture</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/05/18/a-capabilities-based-architecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As technology architecture professionals, we can only be successful and valuable to those who pay us if we frame our work in terms of capabilities at the outset. If we start with details, we'll ultimately fail.]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture is Not: A Proof of Concept</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/05/05/architecture-is-not-a-proof-of-concept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 19:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrisonea.com/?p=293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An architecture for a solution requires understanding the problem at hand well enough that solving it can be described in terms that everyone understands. The architect speaks in terms of capabilities, not products.]]></description>
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		<title>IT Made Simple</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/05/03/it-made-simple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrisonea.com/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What would it take for your business to view IT as a valuable, essential partner instead of an annoying cost-center that they're forced to deal with? Wouldn't that be better for you and better for them?]]></description>
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		<title>Nogility</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/04/12/nogility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrisonea.com/?p=270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Large technology organizations don't simply become agile. They're either agile or not. If they're not, the path to being so is via change, often radical change at that. ]]></description>
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		<title>Is The CIO Necessary?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/03/31/is-the-cio-necessary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrisonea.com/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of a company is to make money and to make that money while somehow imparting a positive effect to its customers. Can IT enable the business without a clearly laid out Vision? Without that sense of purpose, doesn't IT typically make a mosh of things? ]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture is Not: a Vendor Product</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisonea.com/2011/03/24/architecture-is-not-a-vendor-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Architecture is about holistically describing the system of people, process and technology. It can be abstract and conceptual, or it can be concrete and detailed. But it is never merely a specific product set from a specific vendor. ]]></description>
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