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When writing about IT from the perspective of one's personal experience in consulting and managing, I have found it helpful to refer to references and frameworks. This allows me to compare my thoughts with others', and to frame those thoughts within some common reference points.

This Update explores the enterprise's need to go beyond the firewall to enhance customer satisfaction, increase revenue, and maintain a competitive edge.

Business craftsmanship is concerned with organizational transformation and enlightenment. It can loosely be thought of as a framework -- and certainly utilizes one -- but "framework" is not quite the right term to describe this approach as the term implies stability, and usually a clearly defined set of rules. Scrum is a good example of an organizational framework. It has well-defined components, namely roles, meetings, artifacts, and values.

This year, 2013, may finally be the long-predicted "year of collaboration." In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series,1 I discussed five predictions related to increasing collaboration: collaborative tools for HR, 3D printing changing

Here in Part II, we introduce a business-IT architecture transformation framework. The framework provides a comprehensive approach to addressing business-IT misalignment.

The "consumerization of IT" is a catchy term for a sneaky trend that has been going on for at least 10 years, in which consumer devices and applications are increasingly incorporated into the workplace.

If anything, the pace of change in technology is speeding up. So how will 2013 be different than 2012? Will 2013 actually be the "year of collaboration" -- something people have been predicting every year for the last 20 years?

There has been a lot of noise in the application development area around what are being called "systems of engagement." In this Executive Update series, we will explore this newfound principle and what architects must contemplate in order to foster improved enterprise efficiency and innovation.