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FIELD NOTE: Purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Field Note, tagged , on February 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »

During a recent conversation, a colleague asked what the purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is? Here are the three points that seem to make sense: >> Enterprise architecture is the architecture of business capabilities >> Enterprise architecture provides a common basis for understanding and communicating how systems are structured to meet strategic objectives >> Instead [...]

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FIELD NOTE: Personal Operational Readiness Plan for Enterprise Migration

Posted in Field Note, Modernization, Strategy, tagged , on October 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The risk of human failure is possible in any endeavor, not with standing the work that I am doing to help a client plan for the migration of an enterprise claims management system. As part of developing an operational readiness plan, which spans two and a half years, we are developing a wide variety of [...]

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FIELD NOTE: The Enterprise Social Media Adoption Path – The Missing Phase

Posted in Field Note, Social Media, Social Networking, tagged on April 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Just reviewing John Bells article “The Enterprise Social Media Adoption Path” with a client. While mostly correct (Phase 1 -4), I noted that he was missing the last, possibly most important phase. That phase is the Optimization Phase. While I will be writing on this, and the other phases, in more detail over the next [...]

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Make Money With It!

Posted in Field Note, tagged , on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A client recently asked what they should do with the vast amounts of social and consumer-oriented data that had been collected over the years. My immediate reply, “Make money with it.”  But while they had collected this data, very little was immediately accessible to them through some form or API or services (aka SOA). The [...]

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FIELD NOTE: Aligning Operational Requirements with Storage Services

Posted in Field Note, tagged , , , , on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Enterprise systems fails for a lot of reasons, but most failure can be anticipated and often prevented. The principal driver of failure is complexity; at the operating system, application, and operational level. Product development life cycles are notorious for not including operational requirements and cross developmental team members when building out systems. As such, the [...]

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So Why Field Notes?

Posted in Field Note on February 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Those that know me will contest that I tend to take a lot of notes. I do so because I truly believe that to remember is to record. This quote, “I’m not writing it down to remember it later. I’m writing it down to remember it now” really put this practice into perspective for me. [...]

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FIELD NOTE: Technology Roadmapping

Posted in Field Note, tagged , on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

FIELD NOTE: A collection of ideas and concerns passed along to insight the senses.   I spend a lot of time helping clients work through product and services strategy, specific trying to figure out what needs to go, stay, and be created. It is all part of a comprehensive portfolio management process that is drive [...]

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