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In Data We Trust: Smart Data Management in Enterprise Architecture
In today's fast-paced business landscape, data reigns supreme. Good data is an invaluable asset for driving organizations to succeed. Leveraging data and the insights it provides is not just a choice but a necessity for informed business planning and decision-making. …
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Tech Debt is Forever: Get it under control with enterprise architecture (EA) and strategic portfolio management (SPM)
Pre-2020, when we were still in the office and visiting each other’s desks, I frequented Susan in Product Documentation to exchange the latest personal, work-related, and topical news. My eyes would invariably be drawn to the bright orange sticky note… -
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Enterprise Transformation: Why success lies in your approach to strategic portfolio management
If you're leading transformation, chances are you've been here: business has a bold vision to drive strategic change — which, instead, results in havoc. Done right, enterprise transformation can help companies become more efficient, pivot to new products or markets,… -
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Catch a tiger by the tail: Strengthen your IT backbone with Technology Portfolio Management
The COVID pandemic accelerated the upgrade of digital engagement for organizations already providing multi-channel digital experience. At the same time, long-established brick-and-mortar businesses have been forced to venture into digital offerings for the first time. Almost overnight, customers expect platform-independent,… -
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You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: A Retrospective of APM
The advent of software applications can be traced to the very first memory-held software program, the Manchester Baby created at the University of Manchester in 1948. The following years saw the development of various programming languages that spurred the age… -
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Sustainability and its tradeoffs: how your IT is key to finding the right balance
Tradeoffs have been a part of life for all of history. But in the age of sustainability, as we race to prevent climate catastrophe, we're confronted with more of them than ever. Consider the case of my friend, Christopher, whose… -
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All Together Now: How OKRs and strategic portfolio management help make the right IT investments
“One, two, three, four, can I have a little more?” So begins The Beatles’ All Together Now, a lighthearted number that appears on the group’s tenth studio album, Yellow Submarine. Sung by Paul McCartney atop a grainy acoustic guitar, the… -
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Keep your eye on the prize: Align your IT investments with business strategy
For one of the greatest mountaineers in history, Reinhold Messner is an unassuming figure: a slight man, now in his late 70s, whose gentle demeanor and inviting blue eyes conceal a lifetime of adventure. When I met him this spring,… -
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It’s NOT the end of the world as we know it
Hopefully 2022 started off well for you. In reading the Forrester report, “Predictions 2022: Tech Leadership and Innovation,” it looks like we’re in for continued – and some new – challenges. Of course, the pandemic persists in confusing and confounding the best-laid… -
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Enterprise architecture: Less is more… still
In summer 2021, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) was reopened after six years of renovation. The building was originally architected in the late 1960’s by German-American Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) and is the epitome of his modernist architecture style. The refurbishment… -
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The digital North Star for utilities
Planning for technology adoption in utilities involves never-ending cycles of regulation and change, moving as inexorably as constellations do around the North Star. I recently had the opportunity and privilege to support a field service webinar: “Lessons Learned from Technology…