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AI Kills the Functional Organisation2025 6 posts
Best AI article with ManageWithoutThem themes
Substack: Linking Business Architecture, Strategic Management, and Scenario Planning
Old Digital Twin Presentation (2021)
AI Video Generation TestsBring Your Robot to Work DayTesting Synthesia video generation2024 1 post
Organisational Reasoning2022 2 posts
ChatGPT: Write a blog post about Austrian economics and managementFive steps to become customer oriented (draft)2021 8 posts
The Fallacy Of Business Versus Technical MetadataNot Data Owners
Operating model design: Context Canvas
Monty Hall Problem - another guy who thinks he’s solved it…Beyond agile: Why Awareness will be the next frontier of digital transformationNotes on The Analytics EnterpriseFacebook is right...?
Data Governance - across IT, data teams, and data governance roles2020 13 posts
Burger place
Why is a Enterprise Information Model important?The Fallacy of the Business Value of DataEmotion and Rational RealmsThe Concurrent Evolution of Mind and SocietyThe Emotional and the Rational Might be the Same ThingData Governance (argh!)Strategy Deployment
Old MWT PostersNavigating Trends and Fads at Aware Services22 years later… without managers?
Aware Services Core Themes
The Awkward Universal Org Chart2019 57 posts
Business Information ModelBusiness Meaning, Measures, and MetricsCommon / Logical Information ModelsContractsContractsContractsCore, Shared Data StrategyEIM Component Implementation GuidelinesExample Information Ownership Register with a Hierarchy of Data DomainsExample Information Ownership Register with Project Line ColumnInformation CapabilitiesInformation Mastering ModelsInformation Ownership RegisterInformation to Application MappingsInformation to Data Warehouse, Lake, and Swamp MappingsInformation to Interface MappingsInformation to Service MappingsInformation Use Case ModelsContracts - Individual LifeContracts - Group Life
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Can technology help you meet regulatory obligations? Of courseBanks prepare to issue myGov compatible digital identities - Finance - Networking - Security - Software - iTnews
Aware Services (no longer exists)
Blending the best of what humans can do with the best of what robots can do
Journal of Social-Cyber Organisation"Adequate level of data protection"Selected GDPRTools for working
Data DemocratizationData privacy and the challenge of "risk empathy"
Business Glossary as Low Maturity
Enterprise Information Model BlueprintThe Beginning and The End of Information ManagementWork That MattersFunctional Battles
Data privacy and the challenge of "risk empathy"Corporate Innovation and Digital Labs
Data Governance Subway DiagramMissing Lesson from the Banking Royal CommissionRoyal Commission into Banking
British Airways faces record $330 million fine for customer data breach
Capability EngineeringPrivacy Law & GDPR BreachesAustralia's data breech notification processIdentity-as-a-Service
Approaches for Managing Data RiskHandling of Data RiskAmanda's Backyard Zoology
Limited, by Critical Role of Data Governance in Strategy Deployment
Risk Type Master ListData Governance Gallery
Data Governance Internal ContextData Governance QuickcheckExample - Data Governance Checklist
Matthew De George's Public Pages"Nonsense which you now hold quite firmly"2018 14 posts
Aware CardsTBATEOIM: The 30 Year DriftTBATEOIM: Point to the data peopleTrying to Implement the Functional OrganisationTBATEOIM: Introduction (draft)My famous wife on TV!Is it anti-Digital to be pro-Digital?
Shifting to a Data-enabled Organisation – from I.T.’s Perspective
Ayn Rand on Love and HappinessMore capability-based planning goodness
Jordon Peterson - 12 Rules
The Real Data Governance Options
Real Data Governance Options - Topdown
The Power Broker2017 15 posts
Is this the future of the CIO?
Hillsborough documentaryEscalations and AutomationThe Battle Continues
Quick thoughts on: Agile, Same as Waterfall?Another Example of Operationalised Brands: Burn Your Rule Book and Unlock the Power of PrinciplesLeading and Reversible SimplificationIntensionally incomprehensible Why do we keep evaluating “IT Projects”?Yet another function trying to leverage it’s data and get c-suite attentionRe: A Pattern is no Best Practice Yet!The IT Department of the Future… doesn’t exist Data quality analogy – Prove you own your houseYou can’t become a magician!? What will our friends think!?Work isn’t frustrating, Disappointment is2016 22 posts
Whale watching Thoughts on The End of Information Management: Everbody’s ResponsibiltyWestpac Launches DatabankAvoiding the B.A.I.T. view of Business CapabilitiesManagement is a TechnologyThe Management MythThe Management MythIs there a "cultural stasis"?Mega Projects Redux: Projects, Programmes, and Work streams (Part 1 & 2)The No ICT Strategy OrganisationThe path from academic to mainstream – Cognitive biasIs government really this broken?Good examples of the “funnel” patternFree Henry Mintzberg!Is Velocity Killing Agile?Capability-based Governance and business architecture
Getting closer to the future of the IT functionMillennials and Marketing
Capitalism Epochs and Pendulum ArgumentsMcKinsey on DigitalGoodbye old MDG.com, I'll miss youKarl Ove and Blogging2015 14 posts
Amazon opens its first real bookstore — at U-Village | The Seattle TimesNine of world’s biggest banks join to form blockchain partnershipBest Google / Alphabet coverage I’ve read
Now that’s what I call a pivot!
Simple rules to direct your mobility spendWhat is the minimal thinking about strategy you should do before execution?
Diet versus resource use
Exponential OrganizationsWSJ: Data Is the New Middle Manager
Customer-focused?Boardroom Seminar – The Information Side of the Enterprise Design Equation
PwC and “The Faux-Agile Enterprise”“Intersection” by Milan Guenther
Types of Transformational Change – How to decide?2014 41 posts
Labour curation
Strategy Breaks HereBusiness Architecture as Foundation for Transformation
Sketching Information-enabled Business Transformation PatternsAre ERP implementations really business transformation?Artificial intelligence meets the C-suiteThe Lightbulb ConspiracyWhy We Need to Outsmart Our Smart DevicesBeyond the BrainstormThe Integration of DigitalInteresting Times at Westpac – Dave Curran, CIOCloud-First Policies vs. The Real Impact of Cloud
Another example of Market-based Management: Kanban As an Economic Bargaining System for Portfolio Management
Industrialised Adhocracy and The Future of WorkRats participating the marketsMarket StereotypesThe Post-Productive EconomyWe’ve been Weird Al’edTelstra Whitepaper: Analyse This, Predict That
Comparative advantage10 tips for successful business intelligence deliveryTop-down regulation:Advocating better managersCRN : 10 technologies you need to understand nowWhat if Quality Journalism Isn’t? (by @baekdal) #insightsDefinition of a business capability
Innovate or Legislate? (Spoiler: it’s the first one)Thought of the dayYour Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds
“Innovation appetite” at the board levelAAN Weekly Q&A. Business Architecture and the cloudTechnology can change what it means to manageMan who introduced serious ‘Heartbleed’ security flaw denies he inserted it deliberatelyInternet of Things to revolutionise industry: GE – city, Internet of Things, cisco, ge, Rockwell Automation, internet of everything, Sense-T, mining – ComputerworldAnalytic teams need their own IT… but should they?Full Stack Startups… Re-intermediation(!)
The Enterprise Information Management (EIM) CommodityEvent: Using Business Architecture to Enable Customer Experience and Value Strategies
Information-enabled business transformation: Moving Beyond Information ManagementCustomer centricity – solved
Operating Model versus Data Governance Models2013 19 posts
Capabilities-driven strategy
10 linchpin business performance improvement initiatives you should be running right nowThe future is getting closerPhotos: The 10 moods of Stephen Conroy – Photo Galleries – iTnews.com.auInformation Management in a Process-based Management ParadigmThe CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us – Jim Stikeleather – Harvard Business ReviewThought of the day
Singularity – of sorts
▶ Preparing for the “Pricing Revolution” – YouTubeNSW Govt blames IT systems for caseworker shortfall – Software – Technology – News – iTnews.com.au
FlexProduct isn’t static; Anything that gets customers is marketingProgressThe year of capability engineering keeps on givingThe end of IT alignment
Business Capability Maturity Model – Simplified“Perhaps the flight of a single bird”Who gets to decide when to outsource?
2013 – the year of “Capability Engineering”2012 20 posts
A lesson in non-interventionismBlast from the past: “Organisational Usability”Thought of the day: English BreakfastThought of the day: Stand-up Meetings
It’s not big data! (it’s complex events)A “comic” of collective nounsDon’t manage your data warehouseThe Resource Allocation Collaboration ArchitectureIs Your Management Team a Cartel?Your Organisation – Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thoughts on the MWT Competency CentreCulture Change is overrated, of course
Thinking about “capabilities”Wastes of intellectual energy and / or time #23345
12 years laterGovernance is politics in the same room
The customer isn’t at the centre of everything you do!2011 13 posts
iCloud and the death of document-centric computing
Nice graphic, and sentimentCorporations – thought of the dayWhat a difference a decade makesThought of the day: Information management is managementManagement as a service, againInteresting approach to securityPoor IT and the boss that hates themMcKinsey notices that management models can be impacted by technology!
Managing without general management at AppleArchitecture Versus Management?Draft article: Building an Effective Business Architecture and Metrics CapabilityHealthy information eating2010 23 posts
Chief Detail OfficerBusiness Architecture in the never-ending standardisation process of EAOne-Way Risk and Robustness of IT ProjectsNote to self: do ERP vendors benefit from the sunk cost fallacy and asset specificity?Ideal Realised Strategies and Enterprise ArchitectureGame Dynamics and Internal Market MakingDan Pink: Management is a television set (i.e. technology)
What, if anything, is a business architect?David Heinemeier’s ‘Unlearn Your MBA’ talk at StanfordMotivationNote to self – innovation
Mobile video conferencing as a safe optionWhy can’t BI tools help develop effective KPIs and measures
InfrastructuresWe should probably all read “The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur” by Peter G. KleinAgile Manager on the risk of a Lean IT Financial CrisisThought of the day‘New’ to MWT – ‘business intelligence’ is bunkIT as business process standardisationBreaking down innovation accountabilitiesExplicit collaborationProject Managers Should Not Fear the Baseline | CIO – Blogs and DiscussionEaaS in Australia2009 24 posts
The Professional MessConfessions of an aeroholicIT Outsourcing – How to avoid it or make it work for you“We glorified finance, we privileged finance, we even subsidised finance”Bad maths, accounting, and risk managementCory Doctorow’s ‘Makers’Technocracy and PoliticisationDes Moore on Central BanksManager veto and the management team cartelNo wrong way to slice the pie? (and do you even know?)Thought of the dayAgain, what is MWT?Thought of the dayNot what, howManagement is (and should be) boring!
Comical Economics
What would a healthy banker say about the the economic crisis?The financial system vs. financial institutionsGetting closer to Michael CostaMerlin Mann discovers Christopher Alexander, stops procrastinating, and fumbles a littleTRIZ as a pattern language for problem solvingDoes the enterprise architecture really ‘contain’ the organisation?
Update to Enterprise Architecture WorksheetTraceability in enterprise architecture2008 11 posts
What’s good for Obama is good for General MotorsThe Enterprise Architecture Network Google GroupBailout readerEnterprise Architecture: ‘New’ to MWTMultisourcing disipline: ‘New’ to MWT‘Fit to govern’ in Australian politics
Architecture as StrategyROI Challenge for Operationalising Brands
Structure of the MWT Model
Context of the MWT ModelTesting…2007 1 post
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