By Adrian Grigoriu In 12 'best practices' IT should avoid at all costs, Bob Lewis, CIO columnist, says that "industry best practices are sure to sink your chances of IT success"...
"What makes IT organizations fail? Often, it’s the adoption of what’s described as “... Aug. 12, 2017 02:42 AM EDT |
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When 'collaboration' slows down your work Aug. 11, 2017 01:00 AM EDT |
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When 'collaboration' slows down your work
Deep versus Shallow work
Aug. 10, 2017 03:48 AM EDT |
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When 'collaboration' slows down your work
Deep versus Shallow work
The problem is that, in the enterprise, the Deep and Shallow work compete for the same r Aug. 9, 2017 02:10 AM EDT |
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When 'collaboration' slows down your work
In the 'Want to Create Things That Matter? Be Lazy', Cal Newport defines the concepts of Deep and Sh Aug. 8, 2017 04:01 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu Deep work is what produces the things that matter in the world. Shallow work is just a glue. Aug. 4, 2017 01:27 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu Julie Goran, Laura LaBerge and Ramesh Srinivasan of McKInsey Quarterly, published in July 2017 Culture for a digital age in which they state that "in a digital world, solving these cultural problems - Risk aversion, weak customer focus, and siloed mind-sets - is no longe... Aug. 3, 2017 02:09 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu Culture, a barrier to Aug. 2, 2017 02:00 AM EDT |
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On digital maturity, research from Sloan MIT and Deloitte
- 4. “Becoming talent magnets.”
Sure we have that in every recruitment newsletter and strategy discussion. But not quite implemented in practice. Does Digital add anything new though... Jul. 18, 2017 01:14 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu The "findings from the 2017 digital business global executive study and research project", a Deloitte collaboration with MIT Sloan Management Review, "based on a global survey of more than 3,500 managers and executives and 15 interviews with executives and thought leaders",&n... Jul. 16, 2017 02:32 AM EDT |
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Why are neither the customers of EA nor the architects happy
In the absence of a clear EA deliverable, no stakeholder in the enterprise really understands what the architects are doing.
The architect then feels obliged to repeatedly prove the EA case to the ... Jul. 10, 2017 04:28 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu EA makes all stakeholders unhappy today...
Customers are unhappy because EA deliverables, when any, are not helping them do their jobs better, that is, speak the same language, coordinate their work, align their strategies, lighten decision making, invest more wisely, evalu... Jul. 9, 2017 01:27 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu Enterprise Architecture is the integrated, consistent and navigable diagrammatic description of the enterprise. An EA method should offer an Enterprise Modelling framework at least, a development process and the architecture principles that guide the coherent enterprise change and stra... Jul. 6, 2017 06:12 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu The idea of Business Process Architecture (BPA) was mentioned quite a few times in the year past. Often though, in the subsequent paragraphs, it was shortened to Business Architecture.
The concept, typically, comes from the process Business Process Management (BPM) comm... Jul. 5, 2017 01:11 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu In “Lessons from the Field: The Adaptable LeBusiness Architect” Dean Heltemes, the Business Architecture leader at Cargill, addresses the Business Architect role in the enterprise.
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Jul. 4, 2017 02:14 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu In “Lessons from the Field: The Adaptable LeBusiness Architect” Dean Heltemes, the Business Architecture leader at Cargill, addresses the Business Architect role in the enterprise.
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What a Business Architect is and is not Jul. 3, 2017 12:31 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu In “Lessons from the Field: The Adaptable LeBusiness Architect” Dean Heltemes, the Business Architecture leader at Cargill, addresses the Business Architect role in the enterprise.
Jul. 2, 2017 02:08 AM EDT |
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The CIO in the Cloud era
The IT issue and the Cloud solution (i)
The transition to Shadow IT and the Cloud (ii)
Jun. 30, 2017 04:25 AM EDT |
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The CIO in the Cloud era
The IT issue and the Cloud solution (i)
The transition to Shadow IT and the Cloud (ii)
Jun. 15, 2017 03:26 AM EDT |
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The CIO in the Cloud era
The IT issue and the Cloud solution (i)
The transition to Shadow IT and the Cloud (ii)
Jun. 13, 2017 10:39 PM EDT |
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The CIO in the Cloud era
The IT issue and the Cloud solution (i)
The revolution started with the shadow IT. Business felt satiated with the perpetual IT excuses and delays of the type "can't", "not now", "we are so busy...", "it Jun. 13, 2017 12:01 AM EDT |
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The CIO in the Cloud era
Yet, business is not too happy with the IT department. I cannot imagine why, you may say. Well, IT costs a big deal in comparison with rest of a business. Consider the numbing operationa expenditure on servers, applications, licences, mai... Jun. 12, 2017 11:37 PM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu There are plenty of articles floating around about the role of the CIO today. Clearly, something is on people's mind. What is the problem though? The questions appear to be about the CIO’s relationship to CMO (Marketing) and CFO (Finance) chief officers and&nb... Jun. 12, 2017 12:16 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu Would you like a concise and highly visual guide to your Enterprise Modelling and Strategy Planning?
This kindle book supplies an end to end method to achieve just that. It is also a reference and aide memoire for your daily work.
It exhibits
- an one page generic... Jun. 8, 2017 02:44 AM EDT |
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Yet another definition for Business Architecture (i)
Yet another definition for Business Architecture
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By Adrian Grigoriu “Business Architecture represents holistic, multidimensional business views of: capabilities, end-to- end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders.... Jun. 4, 2017 02:43 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu “Business Architecture represents holistic, multidimensional business views of: capabilities, end-to- end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders.... Jun. 3, 2017 12:04 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu In The Evolving Role of a Cloud Architect Gunnar Menzel, Vice President & Chief Architect @ Cloud Infra, Cap Gemini Global states that "a cloud architect is responsible for making sure a cloud solution is structurally sound and fit for purpose"
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By Adrian Grigoriu In The Evolving Role of a Cloud Architect Gunnar Menzel, Vice President & Chief Architect @ Cloud Infra, Cap Gemini Global states that "a cloud architect is responsible for making sure a cloud solution is structurally sound and fit for purpose"
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By Adrian Grigoriu The Cloud Architect May. 19, 2017 01:51 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu Martin Owen, Vice President of Product Management at ERwin, posts on LinkedIn that
"Enterprise Architecture is arguably one of those jobs that isn't ever finished. But I'd argue that over analysis is just as damaging to a business as the opposite. Speed is key in ac... May. 11, 2017 03:54 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu Martin Owen, Vice President of Product Management at ERwin, posts on LinkedIn that
"Enterprise Architecture is arguably one of those jobs that isn't ever finished. But I'd argue that over analysis is just as damaging to a business as the opposite. Speed is key in ac... May. 9, 2017 12:44 AM EDT |
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The Value of Architecture, Reference Architecture and Architecture Framework
Any system has an architecture. An enterprise does as well. For instance there are Bus and Star styles of architectures. One of these architecture patterns must be chosen beforehand.
To optim... May. 6, 2017 02:08 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu There are many common sense reasons, such as predictability, repeatability, consistency, standardization etc., for the use of models, templates, standards, paterns, frameworks, reference or/and generic architectures. A class in OO (Object Oriented) is a template, for ins... May. 5, 2017 02:08 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu In "Design thinking vs the lean startup: which one should you use?" Graham van der Made, editor of Ventureburn, the "Start up news for investment markets", discusses the design thinking and the lean startup methods.
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May. 4, 2017 01:03 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu Lean Start-up or Design May. 3, 2017 03:10 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu In "Architecture is Dying – Why EA and Agile isn’t enough to stop Shadow IT", Barry O'Reilly writes for IASA, "an association for all IT architects", that "architecture is dying"...
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Enterprise Architecture and Agile do muddy the waters of Digital Transformation
In "Architecture is Dying – Why EA and Agile isn’t enough to stop Shadow IT Apr. 24, 2017 01:47 AM EDT |
By Adrian Grigoriu In "Architecture is Dying – Why EA and Agile isn’t enough to stop Shadow IT", Barry O'Reilly writes for IASA, "an association for all IT architects", that "architecture is dying"...
Barry expects though a backlash for saying this "horrible "truth".
Yet, I agree Apr. 23, 2017 02:08 AM EDT |
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Gartner predicts that Enterprise Architecture will focus on Digital platforms
Gartner says that by 2 Apr. 8, 2017 12:44 AM EDT |
Adrian is an executive consultant in enterprise architecture, former Head of enterprise architecture at Ofcom, the spectrum and broadcasting U.K. regulatory agency and Chief Architect at TM Forum, an organization providing a reference integrated business architecture framework, best practices and standards for the telecommunications and digital media industries. He also was a high technology, enterprise architecture and strategy Senior Manager at Accenture and Vodafone, and a principal consultant and lead architect at Qantas, Logica, Lucent Bell Labs and Nokia. He is the author of a few books on enterprise architecture development available on Kindle and published articles with BPTrends,the Microsoft Architecture Journal and the EI magazine. Shortlisted by Computer Weekly for the IT Industry blogger of the year 2011.
Publications: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adrian-Grigoriu/e/B007NGB1XY
