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Does the Money Tree exist in ICT?

October 7, 2010

“show me the money…”. One of the best films ever made. But what does it have to do with IT? Or with Business and IT alignment? To be completely frank, everything. One of the main things that grasp me every day in my line of job is the total neglect of Business Case value in [...]

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Is Enterprise Architecture the Solution to Business / IT Misfits?

September 10, 2010

If you believe a lot of marketing around Enterprise Architecture it is. But in the practice the overkill of EA strategies and implementation really brings a lot to mind when it comes to solutions on Business and IT misfits. IT doesn’t support Business as much as it should. IT doesn’t push Business as hard as [...]

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The Ambiguity of Large Scale Projects

September 10, 2010

Although most of us realize that projects need to get smaller. Actual small IT projects barely exist. When we look at integration and migration projects. Designing new Business processes and aligning technological solutions to mach those, we open a large number of organizational challenges. Especially integration projects can contain a lot of misconceptions in the [...]

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Is Business Architecture really the Basis of it All?

August 10, 2010

In most Enterprise Architecture frameworks the Business Architecture drives the Information Architecture. But is this completely accurate? Didn’t we gain some new insights over the past few years. Information, and especially technology (or IT) Architecture can drive the Business Architecture, creating new and previously unimagined possibilities for organizations. Modern IT isn’t anymore about offering the [...]

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Business and IT, Everything is Entangled

July 22, 2010

Opening up all cliches on Business and IT alignment. Yesterday, I had a discussion on how IT really could solve business problems. One of the statements that came by was that we simply needed to listen to the business in order to understand what IT has to do. This is, in my opinion, a bit [...]

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Why IT and Business should work together

March 12, 2010

IT and Business have, in the practise, different objectives, which is strange: Business and IT both are there to make an organization work as one whole, one objective and one mindset should be the main criteria. In the real-world a lot of organizations don’t have this luxury, they work separately, and therefore they work as [...]

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