Posted in Architecture, Delivery, Innovation on September 25th, 2008 No Comments »
One of the books I managed to read over the summer holiday was Lean Thinking. I will cover more in my future posts, but for the starter I wanted to write about the Lean Thinking approach to business change. Although this change approach was developed with the purpose of introducing ‘lean’ into manufacturing organisations, I […]
Posted in Architecture, Innovation, People on April 19th, 2007 No Comments »
There’s a great interview with Ray Ozzie of Groove and Lotus fame on a range of subjects related to Microsoft as a corporate and its strategic direction. His responses on innovation and architecture governance questions are below.
On achieving long-term vision via other peopleKnowledge@Wharton: […] How do you balance that architectural vision with the day-to-day responsibilities […]
Posted in Architecture, Innovation, Technology on March 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Vinnie Mirchandani:
Virtualization. Data Center consolidation. IP connectivity. ITIL process standardization. Shared IT Services. Global Labor Pools. More opex, less capex. SLAs. All building blocks for a utility computing model.Been helping clients look at the delivery model for relatively mature IT areas. Message to vendors - so long as you meet our security, privacy and compliance […]