From Wickipedia, A business architecture is a part of an enterprise architecture related to corporate business, and the documents and diagrams that describe that architectural structure of business. People who build business architecture are known as Business Architects. Business architecture bridges between...
Three DIYs at Future of Enterprise
Sunday, August 12, 2012 | comments
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo EmersonContemporary business becomes more complex than ever, due to the velocity and variety of changes and interdependent business eco-system, there's often a gap between what leadership says it wants and the types of behaviors...
Five Criterias How CIOs Evaluate Vendors
Thursday, August 9, 2012 | comments
Customer-vendor relationship at modern business is both art and science, complex also critical, but it’s worth the effort to craft such a good long term relationship, especially for IT vendors, how to delight customers takes both aptitude and attitude, how modern CIOs evaluate vendors also takes fair judgement and deep knowledge, here are some collective...
CIO as Producer, API as Lego Blocks
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 | comments
Today’s CIO has many roles, from business strategist to innovative intrepreneur, from technology visionary to talent master, now, we may need add a new one: a producer, not for TV show, but for digital business services, as IT turns to be a platform for co-creation and digital engagement via an agile IT architecture with speed. A recent released API...
Long Live Curiosity: Three Lessons from The Olympic Champion on Mars
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 | comments
Nasa reported the Curiosity had landed on Mars “wheels down” at 10:31 PST August 5, 2012, it’s not only the leapfrog progress for Rocket Science, but also a celebrated advancement for humanity, as some declared, is era of imagination really coming?What can we learn from curiosity’s landing and her adventure on Mars: 1. “The Seven...
Three Big Insights from Big Data
Sunday, August 5, 2012 | comments
Modern businesses all need learn how to swim at the sea of big data, to ride the wave, or avoid obstacles, after being through 5 Ws + 1H Big Data Navigation, some Olympic level data champions may gain the insights others can not perceive: 1. Customer InsightKnow What Customers Need Before They know ThemselvesBig Data allows businesses...
Insourcing vs. Outsourcing: Five Principles to Define IT Sourcing Strategy
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 | comments (23)
One of LinkedIn CIO discussions about the survey: "outsourcing takes big turn back in last two years and insourcing increased 35%. What are you seeing?” spur many quality comments about IT sourcing strategy, the other IT survey also shows: now most of customers, large or small, prefer to have more flexibility, do not like to tie into multi-year...
Three Trends of Future of Leadership
Saturday, July 28, 2012 | comments
Leadership is both art and science, there’re numerous great books and articles every year to decode it, but nobody can completely solve leadership puzzle yet, though we brainstorm the seven ingredients for future of leadership, it seems always have some missing ingredients there, as leadership is also dynamic, some prestigious management gurus...
DevOps: The New Muscles in Business’s Agile Wings
Saturday, July 28, 2012 | comments
Modern business now embraces Big 4 technologies: cloud, mobile, social and big data, like winds at full-blow mode, business need grow agile wings to balance wind power, to become more flexible and elastic. Agile software development practices iterative & incremental methodology, where requirement and solutions are based on collaboration...
Five Reasons CIO Falls into Scapegoat
Thursday, July 26, 2012 | comments
Enterprise CIOs, like shepherds, take care of their business’s technology/information assets, however, many pitfalls ahead may make a dedicated, responsible CIO a falling scapegoat. There are many WHYs need be asked, many Hows need be experimented, in order for enterprise to focus on problem solving, than finger-pointing; to make fair judgment in leadership...
