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It's already 12 days since the New Year began. The need for managing change and demand for quick response to the ongoing challenges are mounting pressure on time and resource utilization. Though some of the disciplines like “management” (invented by Peter Drucker nearly 70 years back) and “enterprise architecture” (invented by John Zachman nearly 34 years) are handy, people around us make it difficult sometime ;-). Architecture.png

Time is one of the commodities which seem ...

Updated 3 Weeks Ago at 09:37 AM by sunil

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An idea for the Architecture Excellence Awards – part II

I know this is an exciting news to have an award associated with the legendary John Zachman. Actually, the idea came from the co-chair of the jury, Manoj. During last week of March when I was having coffee with John, I couldn't stop asking him if we could institute an award with his name. It was definitely a moment of elation and delight when John agreed to the request.

So friends, starting this year, "Zachman ...

Updated 2nd February 2011 at 07:31 PM by megan

Tags: award, enterprise architect, enterprise architecture, icmg, john zachman

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Architecture Awards , Enterprise Architecture , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture events

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Every quarter, iCMG consultants travel across 12-13 countries, which provides them opportunities to interact and learn from what's happening in the chaotic world of systems and enterprises. Sometimes you get to hear and see things which you would love to share with others as it forms a basis for good learning experience. In this process, we also realize that there several interesting and remarkable works being done across the world without being brought to notice of to the global audience. Though ...

Updated 2nd February 2011 at 07:33 PM by megan

Tags: architecture awards, icmg architecture world

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Mapping financial perspective to the Zachman framework cells


Translating the “strategies� to “operation� – bridging the gap

This is very critical. Very often, strategy models and the operational instances of the enterprise and enterprise models are completely out of sync. It is an ongoing effort to ensure their exist alignment between the various models at the strategy level with respect to the various models at the operational level. Some of the quick ...

Updated 30th March 2010 at 06:57 PM by sunil

Tags: financial dashboard, financial indicators, strategy, zachman framework

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Enterprise Architecture , BPM & BPMS , Balance Score Card , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

Here, is a list of indicators from financial perspective which could be good starting point as we move away from doing lip service to IT-Business alignment issue to actually working towards it. There are 10 indicators to start with.

It would be good to have your feedback if you have already used some of them or if you plan to pick few of them this year. How about coming back and reviewing them in Jan 2011?
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To downlaod the kit ( ppt ...

Updated 20th February 2010 at 01:38 AM by sunil

Tags: financial perspective, it-business alignment

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Software Architecture , Enterprise Architecture , Business Intelligence , Balance Score Card , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

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