About Author: Chris

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Chris Lockhart has more than nine years of experience in architecting, implementing, and testing technical solutions for large multi-line corporations representing several different industries. Chris has provided technical advice and thorough implementation strategies for highly complex integrated systems comprising security, middle-tier Web application components, messaging, collaborative middleware, and back-end data sources. He has focused on providing solutions that take advantage of portal technologies and service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to solve real-world problems for clients.

Posts by Chris

  • I was thinking about the role expertise plays in the effectiveness of our businesses, programs, projects and other enterprise efforts. It often strikes me that too many people are involved, saying too many words, for too much time. Why is this so? It detracts from our ability to execute or at the very least makes successful execution more difficult. Why do we put up with it then?

    The Unguru

    Posted on June 29, 2020 | No Comments
    I was thinking about the role expertise plays in the effectiveness of our businesses, programs, projects and other enterprise efforts. It often strikes me that too many people are involved, saying too many words, for too much time. Why is this so? It detracts from our ability to execute or at the very least makes successful execution more difficult. Why do we put up with it then?

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  • If the word 'digital' summons images of calculator watches from the late 80s, then you understand my angst. We should be discussing how analog solutions, those with high levels of fidelity and granularity can be leveraged to better understand, predict and enable our customers and our businesses.

    Being Anti-Digital (aka Going Analog)

    Posted on June 11, 2020 | No Comments
    If the word 'digital' summons images of calculator watches from the late 80s, then you understand my angst. We should be discussing how analog solutions, those with high levels of fidelity and granularity can be leveraged to better understand, predict and enable our customers and our businesses.

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  • You are under pressure to cut cost. Your consultants are gone. You're on your own. Leadership is banging on the door. How do you make justifiable decisions on these reductions?

    Barbarians at the Gates

    Posted on April 23, 2020 | No Comments
    You are under pressure to cut cost. Your consultants are gone. You're on your own. Leadership is banging on the door. How do you make justifiable decisions on these reductions?

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  • Don't worry. Don't panic. Use the crisis as a pretext for taking bold, dramatic action to improve your business and set your capabilities on new, improved footing. Emerge from the crisis stronger than you were when it began.

    Don’t Stop the World

    Posted on April 20, 2020 | No Comments
    Don't worry. Don't panic. Use the crisis as a pretext for taking bold, dramatic action to improve your business and set your capabilities on new, improved footing. Emerge from the crisis stronger than you were when it began.

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  • I created a list of books I would give someone if they told me they wanted to be a good EA. Read all of these and you will be a guru (or more likely an unguru).

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (about Enterprise Architecture)

    Posted on May 10, 2018 | No Comments
    I created a list of books I would give someone if they told me they wanted to be a good EA. Read all of these and you will be a guru (or more likely an unguru).

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