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Consultants Saying Things- Episode 71: The One About The Buggy Whip Moment
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- Episode 70: The One About Deliberate Career Planning
- Episode 69: The One About Un-Learning
- Episode 68: The 2023 Christmas Special
- Episode 67: The One About Community
- Episode 66: The One About Disillusionment
- Episode 65: The One About Corporate IT
- Episode 64: The One About Workshop Must-Haves
- Episode 63: The One About Driving Real World Outcomes
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Rational Rationalization
Posted on June 18, 2013 | No CommentsWith the upheaval of the economic downturn came a spate of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, splits and buy-outs. The ensuing chaos of the resulting technology portfolios cannot really be overstated. Many surviving companies are just a mess. In normal times this may not be a big deal. But these aren't normal times. -
Cloud in a Box
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsThere 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. -
Architecture is Not: A Proof of Concept
Posted on May 5, 2011 | No CommentsAn 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. -
The Canonical WSDL Portal
Posted on March 3, 2011 | No CommentsHow does one sell something that doesn't really exist in the physical world? Well you attach some sort of value to the thing. You establish a scenario under which, when used properly, the IT service will produce a cost savings or avoidance, or open a new line of revenue for your business. The IT service has to have dollars associated with it in order for the sell to even be possible. Hopefully they're not red numbers. That makes it even harder. -
Social Media is Just Jazz Hands (and other heretical thoughts)
Posted on October 27, 2010 | No CommentsYou might be wondering what social media has to do with enterprise architecture. Apart from my argument that EA must include social as a functional area as well as a technical layer (as it is indisputably part of the business of business), the two areas share a common culture of obfuscation and jazz hands.
