Interesting stuff from February 24th through April 2nd

by | April 6, 2013

The periodic round up: Every Employee Should Work From Home – David Heinemeier Hansson: “[Face time is] far less important as a tool of getting things done. Managers vastly overestimate it’s efficiency because it’s their job to interrupt people. But everyone...

Interesting stuff from January 7th through February 18th

by | February 12, 2013

The periodic round up: IT as Manufacturing – Commoditisation, modularisation and small bets … this is a long way from “IT as we know it”, but right where it should be (even if it DOES upset a few large vendors 🙂 ) How is social business like urban...

EA Metamodel Update (Number three and counting!)

by | January 8, 2013

Well, I think it has improved – I prefer the treatment of governance now, and packaging a multiplicity of business capabilities into a business system (more in the “systems thinking” meaning than in the “IT system” sense) gives a clearer picture of how they...

helicopters and metamodels take 2

by | October 16, 2012

As I threatened, I’ve had another attempt at the enterprise architecture metamodel (model of models) that I started earlier. I think it’s an improvement, but I’m still not satisfied – I’m not completely happy with the way I’ve...

Interesting stuff from September 25th through October 16th

by | October 16, 2012

The periodic round up: The Paradox of Preparing for Change – Given that we will live through many changes in the course of our life, Hagel posits that the best preparation for those changes is to determine what WON’T change – what are our core...

a helicopter view of enterprise architecture

by | October 10, 2012

Over the last couple of years, I’ve read a number of posts by Nick Malik around his Enterprise Business Motivation Model. I’ve also had a look at the Osterwalder and Pigneur Business Model Generation effort. Nick tried to reconcile Osterwalder’s...