Blue Sky to Ground part 1
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, Featured, JimPhelps, Work on 23 January 2009

 
 
I’ve been working with our CIO on the I.T. strategic planning initiative.  At the same time, I’ve been working with the Technical Directors and Operational Directors on planning at the technology level.  They have been creating a map of what technologies are used to support our services.  I’ve had my head in the blue sky [...]

Gartner Webinar: Selling Key Stakeholders on Enterprise Architecture
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, Work on 15 October 2008

Robert Handler of Gartner is presenting.
This is one of seven Key Initiatives for Enterprise Architecture.
“Failure to… change the behavior of others leads to failure itself”.  You must understand the people aspects and you must sell EA to succeed.
They had 600+ clients take a maturity survey to see where they are at in the area of [...]

Digital Neighborhoods – Guiding design
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Headline, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work, software on 18 April 2008

Digital neighborhoods seem like a powerful tool for discussing technology and its impact on users (students, staff, researchers, etc) and the concept adds interesting new requirements to projects. Getting a good understanding of your users’ digital neighborhoods can guide design and deployment of new technologies and help predict impacts on the users themselves. [...]