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A blog site about the book The Technology Garden, to be published by Wiley.
Real-world Enterprise Architecture trends
This comes from Leo de Sousa, an EA in Australian Higher Education who asked the Shared Insights EA Network to provide ideas about what EA trends they were seeing.
My take: leading organisations get EA and are figuring out how to link it to...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 15th February '08
On not being subservient, part 2
Via Steve Jones, here's another story that perfectly encapsulates the power of realising that a partnership approach between IT and business can drive real improvements in the return that you get from IT investment.
In short: Steve's...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 23rd January '08
On not being subservient
One of the the themes that came up time and time again in our interviews for the book was the importance of getting out of the mindset that the IT organisation is in existence to blindly serve requests from the business.
Neil M dealt with...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 20th December '07
On IT architecture and gardening
James Tarbell has this great post, responding to one of the people we’ve interviewed in our research, James McGovern. James T calls out some very insightful similarities between architects and gardeners.
My favourite: “You can get hung...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 28th August '07
Two UK retailers decide to do without IT Directors
Just saw this story, courtesy of my colleague Martin Atherton (co-worker of book authors Jon Collins and Dale Vile).
Martin asks: are these companies’ IT departments moving from being “suppliers” to “slaves”, or from...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 24th August '07
Getting the right focus for IT Governance
I’ve long been a fan of Nick Malik’s blog—and indeed it was his blog that led me to ask him if he’d be happy to be interviewed for the book.
In this post Nick nails quite a few aspects of IT governance, and explains how they...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 13th July '07
Does IT matter
In this post Andrew McAfee at Harvard Business School has a detailed discussion about the impact of IT. He concludes with the following question:
What’s the correct way to think about IT’s effects going forward: diminished competitive...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 16th May '07
Healthy signs for IT-Business alignment
McKinsey has just published the results of a survey of 72 senior IT executives in the US (free subscription required for the full article) which investigated IT strategy maturity. The majority of respondents believe that they are successfully...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 9th May '07
Zachman Framework != Enterprise Architecture
I was talking earlier on to one of the people we interviewed for the book, outlining the main findings and getting some feedback. One of the main topics we focused on was the nature of Enterprise Architecture, and what characterises EA work...
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 13th April '07
What characterises a service?
A couple of weeks ago I was party to another event, this time hosted by IBM. At short notice I was asked to facilitate a session on defining services, which was interesting in the extreme as it very quickly became clear in the earlier sessions that...
Jon Collins, Freeform Dynamics | 29th March '07