Strategic advice to leverage new technologies

A few weeks back, I wrote an EA Advisor in which I suggested that IT architects and engineers ought to have differing roles: architects should deal with high-level design and engineers with the detail technology ("

Make no mistake (no pun intended). I realize there are hundreds of mistakes waiting out there for project managers to make, and I've probably made many of them somewhere along the way in my 25-year IT career.

We have to strip away the myths and misunderstandings about collaboration if we are going to find strategies to overcome them. And overcoming these obstacles to collaboration, while difficult, is very possible.

Architectural principles are a common part of most EA programs, but as with anything, some principles are better defined than others and some EA programs better understand the role of principles and how to use them.

For the majority of end-user organizations, analyzing unstructured data for BI and other decision-support needs is still a fairly new practice; it's of serious interest but, at this stage, primarily in the investigation and experimentation stages.

Business process modeling lies at the core of all attempts to visualize and manage business processes.

The phenomenal growth of digital data over the past several decades, known today as Big Data, has created a range of issues and opportunities. In the earliest days, accessible data consisted of alphanumeric records and simple text. These could be organized, managed, and stored with relative ease.