Once started, an IT transformation is hard to stop. Such huge efforts – often involving investments of hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars […]
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A prediction: many companies will start shedding IT architects in the next six to eighteen months
Business is intensely competitive these days. Under such intense pressure strategy usually breaks down into two things: do more of whatever is creating value, and […]
Continue readingHaving too much SOA is a bad thing (and what we might do about it)
SOA enablement projects (like a lot of IT projects) have a bad name. An initiative that starts as a good idea to create a bit […]
Continue readingThe IT department we have today is not the IT department we’ll need tomorrow
The IT departments many of us work in today (either as an employee or consultant) are often the result of thirty or more years of […]
Continue readingWith cloud computing, the world is not flat
Does location matter? Or, put another way, is the world no longer flat? Many cloud and SaaS providers work under the assumption that where we […]
Continue readingReducing costs is not the only benefit of cloud computing & SaaS
The wisdom of the crowd seems to have decided that both cloud computing and its sibling SaaS are cost plays. You engage a cloud or […]
Continue readingThe price of regret
I learnt a new term at lunch the other day: regret cost. Apparently this is the cost incurred to re-platform or replace a tactical solution when […]
Continue readingExtreme Competition
I’ve uploaded another presentation to SlideShare. (Still trying to work through the backlog.) This is something that I had been doing for banks and insurance […]
Continue readingWhat we’re doing today is not what we did yesterday
The business of IT has changed radically in the last few years. Take Walmart for example. In the 80s Walmart laid the foundations for its […]
Continue readingWe’re making our lives too complicated
Has SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) finally jumped the shark? After years of hype and failed promises, SOA seems to be in trouble. In a few […]
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