by Jim Phelps

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Brick Diagrams and related planning tools
[7 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 1,167 views]

Brick diagrams are a strategic planning tool that I mentioned in passing in my ITANA talk at EDUCAUSE. Since then, I’ve had several people ask for more information. So here it is… more information.

Brick Diagrams are used by NIH in their Enterprise Architecture planning process. You can see the NIH brick diagrams and their taxonomy [...]

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SOA from the Registrar’s Perspective
[30 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 58 views]

Just had a hallway (okay, exhibit floor conversation) with Tom Black of Stanford University. They have ideas on embedded enrollment functions in several places: inside their LMS, available via iPhone applications and elsewhere. They would expose those enrollment functions as services then write to those services. Interesting. We also talked about orchestrating a flow, click [...]

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CG Leaders Meeting @ EDUCAUSE 2008
[28 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 31 views]

Introductions of people. A lot of interesting constituent groups that I didn’t realize existed: I.T. Metrics, Learning Space Design. http://www.educause.edu/groups
Cynthia Golden – VP for EDUCAUSE is doing the EDUCAUSE update.
There was a new President last year. They have been doing a lot of change management over the past year. There is a [...]

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Gartner Webinar: Selling Key Stakeholders on Enterprise Architecture
[15 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 239 views]

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 [...]

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Advanced CAMP – Part 3
[20 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 17 views]

Merri Beth Lavagnino – Privacy and Policy
Policy and privacy are really consideration of the human aspects and impacts of technology. Policies are: strategic direction and operating philosophy (which are usually informal and cultural), Public and Institutional policies (these are both documented and usually legal documents).
Institutional policy – a statement that reflect the philosophies and [...]