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Short and Sweet Archive
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On The CIO’s Top Challenges
Posted on September 9, 2011 | No CommentsThere are many challenges that CIO's are facing in today's cloudy, jargony, swirling maelstrom of Information Technology. But isn't there something missing in the conversation that totally supersedes these challenges? -
Architecture is Not: A White Paper
Posted on August 18, 2011 | No CommentsAn architecture that is merely a PDF with a couple of generic line-box-arrow diagrams coupled with a few colorful "pancake" pictures isn't really an architecture. It's a marketing glossy. A white paper is too generic to be passed off as a real solution to a real problem. -
10 Signs You’re Not REALLY a Director of IT
Posted on May 19, 2011 | No CommentsTitle inflation/mis-direction is vermicious. Like a Knid. -
Architecture is Not: A Proof of Concept
Posted on May 5, 2011 | No CommentsAn architecture for a solution requires understanding the problem at hand well enough that solving it can be described in terms that everyone understands. The architect speaks in terms of capabilities, not products. -
Is The CIO Necessary?
Posted on March 31, 2011 | No CommentsThe purpose of a company is to make money and to make that money while somehow imparting a positive effect to its customers. Can IT enable the business without a clearly laid out Vision? Without that sense of purpose, doesn't IT typically make a mosh of things?
