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Skills gap and employees of the future

An article in Computerworld recently talked about the gap between what is taught in universities and what is needed to be valuable in the workplace. The article lists: 1) Inadequate grip on business realities 2) A narrow worldview 3) Social networking...

Published 09-29-2009 3:01 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Youth, Change management

Enterprise Architectures role in combating cloud sprawl

In a recent article in Computerworld there was a discussion of the phenomenon of cloud computing expanding uncontrollably in an enterprise. Cloud was compared to the client/server and departmental computing shift that took place in the late 80s and 90s...

Published 09-17-2009 7:25 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Utility computing, Architecture, Change management

Windows 7 - Make sure you have a plan

It's clear that we're going to be in for a crescendo of wailing and praise around Windows 7 over the next few weeks. Articles are coming out in the Wall Street Journal - by the time it gets to that stage, the release is imminent and your access...

Published 07-23-2009 6:08 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Consumerization , Emerging technologies , Technology adoption, Change management

A CTO for all seasons

Following on from Charlie Bess' article about the different definitions of Enterprise Architecture , I thought I would expand the discussion a bit and look at the different types of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) roles as illustrated in the following...

Published 07-20-2009 2:11 PM by mateen greenway

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Architecture, Change management

Case Management: The Missing Link in BPM

At its June meeting, the Object Management Group has considered the issue of a draft RFP of case management modeling. The pending vote sparked considerable discussions and proposals of changes to the draft RFP resullting in postponement of action until...

Published 07-07-2009 8:30 PM by Fred Cummins

Filed under: Applications, Change management, BPM

Enterprise Architecture is not the same for everyone

One of the concerns that organizations have about defining their enterprise architecture (EA) is that it takes foundational understanding of the business and its objectives. The Infromation Technology Enterprise Architecture team may take as much investment...

Published 07-05-2009 3:34 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Architecture, Change management

Risk, Processes and Leadership

I was recently in a discussion with a number of people who were updating a process that had been in use for a number of years. Like most organizations the leadership of today is different from a few years back and the business had changed as well. The...

Published 06-24-2009 11:18 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Change management

Constantly changing role of the CIO

A while back, Jeff Wacker wrote an article on the changing role of the CIO . One of the things that was clear from that article is that the CIO is turning into much more of a non-technical role. Some people would say it wasn't technical in the first...

Published 03-27-2007 10:03 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , CIO, Technology adoption, Change management

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