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There must be a certain amount of schadenfreude in the oil industry at the continued hammering UK energy giant BP PLC is receiving in the international press. BP, which is the second largest oil company in the world behind ExxonMobil, has over the past several years touted itself as the environment-friendly, socially conscious oil company as opposed to its rivals, especially ExxonMobil. However, a series of events over the past 18 months have tarnished BP's once sterling reputation.
There must be a certain amount of schadenfreude in the oil industry at the continued hammering UK energy giant BP PLC is receiving in the international press. BP, which is the second largest oil company in the world behind ExxonMobil, has over the past several years touted itself as the environment-friendly, socially conscious oil company as opposed to its rivals, especially ExxonMobil. However, a series of events over the past 18 months have tarnished BP's once sterling reputation.
Consultants hit in the early 1990s on the fact that building into a corporate culture the capacity to learn and enhance skills would prove an important organizational characteristic for the 21st century. This is no less true in business process offshoring.
In part one of this series published in July (see "Evaluating the External Technological Environment," 26 July 2006), I suggested that there are three aspects to the external technological environment that IT should track and consider:
In the field of enterprise architecture, many architects are very critical of John Zachman's well-known framework. A number of extensions have been proposed for the framework (see, for example, the work of Cutter Senior Consultant Ken Orr, including his Executive Report "Business Enterprise Architecture Modeling").
A year or so ago, I got some water on the keyboard of my laptop. Immediately thereafter, the delete key on my laptop stopped working. When you hit the delete key, it no longer sent a signal, or worse, it would begin to send a stream of delete signals to the computer like it was being depressed repeatedly. This happened only at certain points, such as when I opened Microsoft Outlook.
Agile Integration -- Governance
With this Advisor, I return to my series on agile integration (see sidebar). This is the sixth in the series and considers governance.