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Ever thought about viewing the world differently..? This thread on cool maps is here to blow your mind
1. All roads lead to Rome🚨#BREAKING: Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has announced ANOTHER $725 million for Ukraine…
…while Western North Carolina looks like this TODAY.I would just like to remind everyone that CNN has yet to send a single reporter down to #WNC to cover the fact that people are living in tents, in the bitter cold.
Not a single one.
Let that sink in.
Consultants Saying Things- E76-01: Be Empathetic to Win Business
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- Episode 75: The One About Existential Angst
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- E73-01: Phil talks good questions
- Episode 74: The One About Finding and Landing Clients
- Episode 73: The One About Asking Good Questions
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- Episode 71: The One About The Buggy Whip Moment
Business vs IT Archive
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A Goat, A Rope and a Gonkulator
Posted on September 21, 2010 | No CommentsThe people who like to create solutions are typically not the best equipped to fully understand the context of the problem. They are structured by nature to take action, to find a way around the obstacle. Their gaze is fixed on the end result, the grand design of what will be in the future state. With this horizon-centric, forward looking perspective, the original purpose for the effort is usually sidelined. -
Is Enterprise Architecture Left or Right Brained?
Posted on September 1, 2010 | No CommentsLogic and the ability to think analytically are central to work in technology. That is the minimum requirement, the common denominator. But there are aspects of technology that require right brain thinking in order to be performed well. Intuition, free association, expression and risk taking are traits that are required for doing IT architecture well. -
Who Needs a Vision?
Posted on August 24, 2010 | No CommentsThe vision is important. The purpose of the organization and its mission are critical to get right. Without it, how do you know what your objectives are? How do you know what you're doing? How do you measure your activities? How do you know you're being successful? How do you know you won't be reorg'd into the unemployment line? -
Responding to Change: EA & Agility
Posted on July 23, 2010 | No CommentsEA doesn't institute agility. When adopted and executed properly, it helps structure an enterprise so that it can move with agility if it chooses to do so. The practice of Enterprise Architecture enables a company to respond to change. -
Developers vs Architects: Cage Match
Posted on July 16, 2010 | No CommentsWhy on earth would an enterprise place it's architects in the AppDev organization? There they'll be suffocated by groupthink geared to see solutions as the first step in addressing business problems. They'll slowly begin to lose the context, the big picture. The discipline of architecture simply requires a different view of the world that vanishes from sight when the architect is mired in the muck and the lost in the weeds.
