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Becoming a digital architect
Just before the Christmas break I wrote an article that explained why I think we are entering a new phase for technology where everyone needs to be able to understand something of the architecture of...
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A framework for Digital Architecture
The two-by-two matrix is the stock-in-trade of the management consulting industry. There’s a reason for that – they are generally pretty useful, and help to put a bit of classification onto things...
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Digital Architecture: Support Services
In my last post I introduce a simple 2×2 matrix that can help to classify services within an organisation to help make sense of how digital technologies impact and can be managed effectively. We’ll...
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Digital architecture: Production services
One of the things that I was told in my two years of working in the software supplier world was that “there are only two sorts of people; those who make products and those who sell products”. As on...
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Digital Architecture: Product services
Continuing the tour around the quadrants, we come to the external-facing, core product-related activities that a business conducts. This is the area in which there has probably been the greatest...
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Digital Architecture: Comms services
The final quadrant of the Digital Architecture framework is the one which I believe poses most challenge to traditional models of management of technology (and maybe even management of people) in...
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Digital Architecture: the rows and columns
To finish off this short series about the Digital Architecture framework, let’s take a look at what we can learn and infer by looking across, and up and down, the quadrants. The functions and...
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Digital Architecture revisited
Back at the beginning of 2014 I wrote a handful of articles exploring a simple model for making decisions about where to put effort and investment into things digital that I termed “Digital...
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Curiouser and curiouser
I had the pleasure of spending yesterday at the Leading Edge Forum event in London, listening to some of my research peers, leading figures from the world of technology, and others, about the need for...
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IT vs Digital
“So what’s the difference between IT and Digital?” That’s a heck of a googly to receive at the end of a 90 minutes workshop. (For American readers, a googly in cricket is what a curveball is in...
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