The year 2020 has presented significant challenges to businesses worldwide. Leaders in those businesses have had their lives turned upside down personally and professionally. Business plans have been blown apart. In some cases, the fundamental assumptions about […]
A new study suggests some hackers aren’t just in it for the money but instead are motivated by their disappointment in a company’s attempts to fake social responsibility. “There is emerging evidence that the hacking community is […]
Editor’s Note : What follows is an excerpt of Enterprise Architecture at Work – Modelling, Communication and Analysis © 2017 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, a book written by Marc Lankhorst, a managing consultant and chief technology evangelist […]
Building an efficient business glossary on the strong foundation of standardized business terms and well-defined naming conventions Introduction With collocation of teams becoming a thing of the past, the concept of distributed teams is becoming […]
Jeanne Ross made a career of empathizing deeply with organizations undergoing IT-driven change. Here she shares her expert advice and a vision for the future. Over the course of three decades, Jeanne Ross built a […]
Ensuring data translates into meaningful information is what matters at the end of the day, as ultimately information is what is used to make decisions by the businesses. To make things further interesting, businesses prefer flexibility and options in the way […]
In “Business Capability Modeling: Theory and Practice,”I explained how an organization could model its business capabilities using simple, low-cost tools. Since then I have used the techniques from that article to help organizations make a […]
By now, most business leaders will identify information technology as a strategic function. No longer relegated to the background as a cost-center or necessary part of doing business, IT is taking its rightful place at […]
Too many business leaders dismiss architectures because they’re too complicated and/or appear too focused on information technology. Our challenge is to create understandable architectures with the right balance of business and technology focused on delivering […]
Every IT professional who has been in the industry loves new technology and new capabilities. IT professionals enjoy examining a way that a problem has been solved and find new and even better ways of […]