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Wanted: corporate chiropractors

Internet/marketing guru (there’s not many other words that will do) Seth Godin wrote a post on an idea that’s dear to my heart a few days ago: Hire an architect. For me, the killer lines are I’m talking about intentionally building a structure and a strategy and a position, not focusing your energy on the [...]

Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by

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Getting the right focus for IT governance

I’ve long been a fan of Nick Malik’s blog – and indeed it was his blog that led me to ask him if he’d be happy to be interviewed for our book on IT-business alignment. In this post Nick nails quite a few aspects of IT governance, and explains how they fit in the context [...]

Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 by

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Zachman Framework != Enterprise Architecture

Just thought it would be worth linking to this post I just made over at the Technology Garden blog, the companion site for our new book on IT-business alignment. See you over there!

Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 by

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CIO podcast

Over here is the first of what we hope will be a series of podcasts with CIOs who’ve instigated work to improve IT-business alignment in their organisations. The interview is with New Zealand-resident Peter Burggraaff, until recently the CIO of NZ retail chain Farmers Trading Company. It follows on from the work we did last [...]

Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 by

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Sustainable SOA and "closed loop" thinking

Todd Biske of Momentum has a great blog on SOA and EA, and one of his recent posts chimed particularly with something we’ve been talking about for quite a while now – sustainability. This is a theme that NeilM and I and Jon (and also Dale, our partner at Freeform Dynamics and book co-author) – [...]

Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 by