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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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Enterprise Architecture as Part of Business Strategy

March 19, 2010

We have discussed the must of Business and IT working together, enabling instead of passively facilitating. We have talked about Enterprise Architecture and an approach where it goes wrong and just becomes an documentation obstacle and a way to ´hedging´ for the IT department and why we need to set a measurable Agility parameter inside [...]

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Develop as fast as you can

March 12, 2010

Software Development takes time. At least, that is what we hear all the time (or do we tell our end users this?). Software Development frameworks however, are getting more and more time efficient in the last few days. Even ‘old’ development frameworks like Oracle Designer can be extremely fast, if you know what you are [...]

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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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Why it is a sad thing when projects are in the IT domain

March 9, 2010

IT projects are in the IT domain, just like Marketing projects are in the Marketing domain. Makes sense right? No, it doesn’t. When we take a look at IT projects, we need to understand the fact that the only right of existence is the fact that we support business processes. This means that we need [...]

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Business Process Improvement: Inspiration

August 6, 2009

When an organization is working on improving their Business Processes there is always one fundamental component that a lot of books don’t write about, inspiration. Because we need the vision and ‘plain guts’ to dare and make large changes (changes are always there, stop try and fight them) we need to have the inspiration to [...]

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