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Nurturing the Marriage of Cloud Computing and SOAs
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Developing a New “Service-Centric IT Value Chain”
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Adopting Critical Thinking in Information Technology
The scenario is a data center, late on a Saturday evening. A telecom distribution system fails, and operations staff are called in from their weekend to quickly find the problem and restore operations...
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Putting Enterprise Architecture Principles to Work
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Risk Management Strategies for IT Systems
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The Trouble with IT Disintermediation
I have a client who is concerned with some of their departments bypassing the organization’s traditional IT process, and going directly to cloud vendors for their IT resource needs. Not really unique,...
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Putting Enterprise Architecture Principles to Work
This week brought another great consulting gig, working with old friends and respected colleagues. The challenge driving the consultation was brainstorming a new service for their company, and how...
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Risk Management Strategies for IT Systems
Risk management has been around for a long time. Financial managers run risk assessments for nearly all business models, and the idea of risk carries nearly as many definitions as the Internet....
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