Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field. It’s no secret: innovation is difficult for well-established companies. By and large, they are better executors than innovators, and most succeed less through game-changing creativity than by optimizing their existing businesses. Yet hard as it is for such organizations to Read More…

Enterprise Architecture vs. Business Architecture                                                                        Understanding the Differences   When diving into the deep end of digital business transformation, it Read More…

Enterprise Architecture (EA) as an enterprise planning framework has its place and merits, yet it often falls short of real-world IT expectations. The traditional EA approach defines the to-be state architecture that may exist for a while but does not last long. In most cases, an enterprise architect starts from existing architecture and makes improvements. Read More…

Most new business architecture teams jump right into defining business architecture models and frameworks. They spend incredibly little time defining the practice itself, what they want it to be, and how they are going to drive results. Yet this is where the challenge is. I rarely see an enterprise or business architecture team that can’t Read More…

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined, unified system that combines all the elements of a traditional data center: storage, compute, networking, and management. It is a combination of servers and storage into a distributed infrastructure platform with intelligent software to create flexible building blocks that replace legacy infrastructure consisting of separate servers, Read More…

Information security and cybersecurity are closely related disciplines that focus on protecting digital assets, systems, and data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, or destruction. It’s easy to confuse information security and cybersecurity, as the two areas overlap in many ways. However, there are subtle differences between information security and cybersecurity. What Is Information Security? Read More…

  Published: February 15, 2019 Contributor: Laurence Goasduff CIOs must shape their digital innovation through a fundamental shift to a product-centric organization. Redesigning the organization as a digital business should be on every CIO’s mind. However, digital business designs often do not scale because the organization fails to modify both its business and operating models to Read More…

Gartner, Inc. announced its list of 10 top strategic technology trends that organizations need to explore in 2023. Analysts presented their findings during Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™. “To enhance their organization’s financial position during times of economic turbulence, CIOs and IT executives must look beyond cost savings to new forms of operational excellence while continuing to accelerate digital Read More…

This article discussed about a framework and guidelines for Architecture Governance. Levels of Governance within the Enterprise Architecture Governance is the practice and orientation by which Enterprise Architectures and other architectures are managed and controlled at an enterprise-wide level. Architecture Governance typically does not operate in isolation, but within a hierarchy of governance structures, which, particularly Read More…

I read an article/Podcast on McKinsey about Generative AI and the future of HR.  The headline says “A chatbot may not take your job—but it will almost certainly change it. Here’s how to start thinking about putting gen AI to work for you”.  Here is the summary based on my understanding. The article discusses the Read More…