As Cloud becomes part of the everyday conversation in the technology world, offering genuine on-demand benefits, the big question is how do you realise these benefits from where you are today? You have outlined your business case and now need to define a plan and […]
Nirvana is never reached. That is true in technology decision making because designing and implementing technical architecture is a balance of art and science. I have developed a list of seven key considerations where […]
Security and risk management leaders must address eight top trends to enable rapid reinvention in their organization, as COVID-19 accelerates digital business transformation and challenges traditional cybersecurity practices, according to Gartner, Inc. In the opening keynote at […]
Stripe established that developers spend a whopping 33 percent of their time dealing with technical debt. Yet so many CIOs lack a clear framework for managing technical debt. I spoke to more than 300 engineering leaders from fast-growing companies like Airbnb, […]
Latest predictions state that if we continue As-Is, our planet will have heated up by 1C-2C at the time we reach the turn of this century. In its fifth assessment report (2013) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated […]
The remarkable Herbert Simon won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 and the Turing Medal in 1975. Reading about his life gives me a panic attack when I consider how little I have achieved […]
“Success is a by-product of excellence” – Deepack Chopra Organizational excellence can be associated with sustained prosperity. If it is possible to evaluate any business against a set of characteristics found in sustainably prosperous organizations, it would […]
An integral part of organizational data comprises of customer and employee data. This data is often used for crucial decision making – for instance improving sales, budget planning & allocation, resource utilization etc. At the same time, this data potentially contains sensitive customer and employee data. Therefore, while using this data for decision making, it becomes imperative to: protect data from […]
We need to professionalize technology architecture. This is something I touched on recently at the Business Innovation Leadership and Technology (BILT) Conference, which was themed Architecting for Good. I have this radical belief, and have […]
As a key developer of ArchiMate, a modelling language for enterprise architecture, and author of numerous books on EA, Marc Lankhorst is highly respected in the technology community. But surprisingly, there’s not a lot written on the personal journey of the Dutch computer scientist and chief […]