What’s Your Learning Style?

By Danielle Requa

Have you ever wondered why you do better in some classes than others? Why is it that others absorb information more quickly than you and retain it longer? It may depend on your individual learning style. Your learning style influences…

Investment vs. Cost

by Scott Whitmire

When times get tough, revenues have a way of disappearing. Expenses, however, tend to stick around without deliberate and often painful action. The mantra is to “cut costs” or “drive costs out of the system” (these are not the same thing). During…

10 Ways to Support Your Business Strategy and Get Recognized

by Paul T Preiss

The most common issue that enterprise and technology architects face is lack of value perception in business AND technology arenas. The team is often considered overhead by both…

Avoiding Platform Rot

by Gene Hughson

Is your OS the latest version? How about your web server? Database server? If not now, when?

A “no” answer to the first three questions is likely not that big a deal. There can be advantages to staying off the bleeding…

The Failure of the Modern Project and How We Fix It

We know how to deliver technology and business projects.

Success rates quoted in industry vary from 50 to 75% when measured by the ‘big three’; time, cost and requirements. And while we bemoan those statistics…

Ethical question–who owns my blog?

by Scott Andersen

So last week I posted another blog on the concept of Ethics and Architects. It was a dilemma from a reader. Monday as I checked my email I had gotten another suggestion for a topic/dilemma for architects in the field of…

ICS and IASA — Information Management with MIKE 2.0

by: Declan O’Brien

When Will Business Take Architecture Seriously

By Paul Preiss

“We are not a technology company. We sell hammers”. Those are the words of yet another company who has recently exposed their customers to major theft, inconvenience and potential identity fraud. When will…