gerold kathan

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November 6, 2009 • 06:25 1

Hej out there !

I just created this blog with the intention to gradually shift from my old blog under http://www.kathan.at to this platform. Unfortunately my old blogging tool (snipsnap) is no longer maintained and therefore i want to jump on a more stable foundation.

see ya,

cactus.

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  • Architecture standards: Terminology (2/7)
    This is a crosspost from the BiZZdesign blog. If you have any comments, please leave them there! In the previous posting we have explained the benefits of having a good standards practice in place, especially in the context of enterprise architecture. In this posting we set the scene for our framework on standards management by introducing terminology that w […]
  • Architecture standards: intro and overview (1/7)
    This is a crosspost from the BiZZdesign blog. If you have any comments, plesae leave them there! Standards management plays an important role in many aspects of organizations. It is frequently seen as a way to improve costing structures, governance, IT-efficiency et cetera. Setting up a good standards practice is by no means simple and straight forward, thou […]
  • Insuperordination
    In designing management-structures, why is it so often assumed that responsibility-relationships only go one way? Our organisations often place enormous attention on insubordination, a refusal or failure to follow ‘orders from above’; yet why don’t they place the same level of attention on insuperordination, the refusal or failure to respect the the same rel […]
  • Alex Osterwalder "From Business Plan to Business Model"
    Alex Osterwalder author of Business Model Generation (My review) giving a lecture about business models at Summer of Startups 2011 a summer entrepreneurship program for students and researchers with an early-stage business idea from all around the Baltic Sea and the world.See the table of contents for more videos
  • Fractally, breathing optical illusion
    Trippy or nauseating? You decide! Hit the permalink to amplify the sensation. (via @coseyfannitutti and @bengoldacre)
  • Lack of Enterprise View a Hindrance? Good Solution Architecture is Not Enough
    We are consistently being exposed to ENTERPRISE architecture teams without an enterprise perspective in the deliverables and activities in which they are engaged.  Sometimes this is due to a cyclical shift in the priorities between defining enterprise architecture and applying enterprise architecture via solution architecture.  This is a normal, healthy shif […]
  • Strategy Planning and Enterprise Architecture – dealing with the devil in the detail
    Enterprise Architecture is all about supporting strategic planning and business transformation activities, although many organisations seem to almost wilfully forget that this is one of the main purposes of Enterprise Architecture if not the most important one. A business strategy is a long-term plan of changes for the whole enterprise which will address thi […]
  • Make Your Business Model Clear with Vivid Thinking. Guest Post by Dan Roam
    Visual Thinking is central to designing, testing, and building business models. So I was really excited when Dan Roam accepted to write a guest post on the Business Model Alchemist. His brand new book “Blah Blah Blah: What to Do When Words Don’t Work.” is THE reference book to have better conversations and effective meetings. At the heart of a business. At t […]
  • Sense-making through conversation
    TweetOne of our clients referred me to a post by Nick Milton on another great Boston square that pulls “apart the KM world on dimensions of Knowledge Push and Knowledge Pull (which you might call “Sharing” and “seeking”), and the dimensions of Explicit and Tacit. We get 4 quadrants, which we could call Ask, Tell, Search, Share.” The similarity to PKM with it […]
  • A common misconception in SOA
    I think it is very necessary to think about this statement: It is not possible to map behavior. Assume there is a given system landscape of different business systems each fulfilling a part of the business processes. Now assume the goal is to model a common layer of services around these systems, a SOA layer, and to map this layer back to the different busin […]

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  • pace layered application strategy - different approaches for systems of innovation, differentiation and record #gartnerEA 1 day ago
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  • you have to reach out the 4 walls of your organization - extended enterprise includes e.g communities #gartnerEA 1 day ago
  • enterprise datawarehouse is dead - federated predictive and prescriptive analytics as future trend - #bigdata #gartnerEA 1 day ago
  • 'intelligent business operations' - leverage business architecture and process management to enable real time decision support #gartnerEA 1 day ago
  • visual top-level business capability map - essential anchor model to describe who, when and where change occurs - good morning - #gartnerEA 1 day ago

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