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Architecture for Digital Business: An Interview with Mike Rosen
Mike Rosen’s webinar “Architecture for Digital Business” explored how to support your business transformation by taking an architectural approach to strategy. Here are four questions we asked Mike at the end of the webinar that you may also be considering.
Statistical Project Management, Part XI: The Nature of Project Completion
Here in Part XI, we discuss how completion time estimates are determined and the biases that affect those estimates.
To Start a Fire, An Architect Needs Matchsticks (and Paper)
How does an architect see things that may be dark otherwise? There are many examples where seeing things differently make things different, sometimes with extraordinary, decades-long impact.
Practical Enterprise Data Architecture for the Digital Era
In this article, Sagar Gole and Vidyasagar Uddagiri help you understand which fundamental concepts — specifically, the six elements of an enterprise-wide data architecture — you should address today in order to “overcome challenges and leverage the opportunities and benefits of digital transformation.” They describe the “secret sauce” that prepares your organization to thrive during a digital transformation journey.
A Logical Information Architecture That Works for All Your Vs
So how do you put context-setting information at the center of your data architecture? Adrian Jones illustrates how to do this by putting Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Barry Devlin’s architecture into practice. He stresses the importance of context-setting information by pointing out the increased vulnerability to which we are exposing ourselves. We produce and use more and more data. In the backs of our minds, we know that data governance is of growing importance, but we don’t act in the right way on this knowledge. The problem with data governance is that it is never part of a data architecture but rather addressed as a separate process. If our data architectures are not aware of the vulnerability being introduced, accidents are just waiting to happen. Jones hands you the recipe for avoiding these accidents.
Data Architecture Is Really About People — Opening Statement
This issue of CBTJ will help you understand that a data architecture should be much more than merely a technology roadmap. To be of any value to people in an organization, the architecture should guide the people in an organization to an understanding of how to organize for ever-changing information requirements.
Closing the Business-IT Gap with a Model-Driven Architecture
Christian Kaul and Lars Rönnbäck explore what it means to adopt a data-centric paradigm. It certainly isn’t enough to have a data-centric data architecture; the implications are much more fundamental. The ultimate consequence is that you need to create a model-driven organization. By doing so, data architecture determines the shape of the organization, not the other way around. It’s a thought-provoking article, and best appreciated when keeping the context of the two previous articles in mind.
Personal and Organizational Context for Digital Business Decisions
Barry Devlin takes us on a journey to help us understand how context plays a big role in using data. Known for creating the first data warehouse architecture, he proposed a new standard for data architecture for today’s world in 2013. Devlin puts context-setting information at the heart of all data architectures, and for good reason. In the drive to digitize more business processes, the intricacies of how all stakeholders interact with data have been underexposed. Though it is understandable that getting a grip on technology and reorganizing your business is hard enough, it is precisely this interaction that will determine your success. If you turn your perspective around, as he argues, your data architecture will be of more value.