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I recently moderated a roundtable to discuss the Enterprise Architect / Complexity Event Processing (CEP) survey that I worked on with StreamBase.
The roundtable featured Nigel Green of 5Di Limited and Jennifer Kennedy of Linden Lab, along with Richard Tibbetts of StreamBase Systems. We discussed the report results, and then some. Check out the webcast replay.
[Disclosure: StreamBase is a client of Elemental Links]
Zachman Framework 3.0 Announced Tues, Aug. 23 … Quick Notes — Ron Ross on Business Rules
“Here’s a zipped pdf of the new 3.0 version of the Zachman Framework (with permission): ZF3.0.zip [approx 1.5M]…
…Our Editor for BRCommunity.com, Keri Anderson Healy, attended the announcement event – she reports an excellent turnout. The following are some quick first-look notes from Keri (my own comments appear in brackets)…”
tags: zachman
Change This – The Art of Hassle Map Thinking
“Yet we’ve found that organizations that excel at demand creation do exactly that. They examine the lives of customers through the lens of what we call a Hassle Map-a detailed study of the problems, large and small, that people experience whenever they use their products.”
tags: hassle map thinking innovation
Change This – The Six Rules Women Must Break in Order to Succeed
I like: “Proceed until apprehended”
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“We all have thoughts that limit our potential. Some of these beliefs come from our individual experiences; they take hold over the years. “I’m not good at taking credit. I’m much better working behind the scenes. I’m lucky to have this job.” Other beliefs are a result of the gender stereotypes that are all around us. They creep into our heads over time. “It’s my job to nurture everyone else before I take care of my own needs. I am selfish and self-centered if I choose to indulge my ambition.” Still others are simply erroneous conventional wisdom. “I can have it all without compromise. I’m a failure if I can’t make it look easy.”
We get in our own way when we buy-into these limiting beliefs. But it does not have to be that way. We can nurture the beliefs that will sustain us and help us grow. To rise to the highest ranks in business, women need to unwind some of the traditional thinking that holds us back. We need to rethink the conversations we are having in our heads and tell ourselves a new story. We need to break our own rules.”
Readers here at Elemental Links know that I’m an idea collector. I’m constantly on the look out for interesting articles in business, news and trade journals that either relate to my current work, or more likely, provide fodder for future work.
Lately, I’ve been highlighting these discoveries over on Active Information. This week, I discuss an intriguing piece in the Economist’s Technology Quarterly on Game Theory in Practice. Check out the Active Information post.
This week on Active Information I highlight an article on IT Failure from the September Issue of Harvard Business Review that is focused on Managing Complexity.
The authors describe what they learned by taking a radically different approach to the study of IT Failures. Ignoring averages and general trends, they worked from the Black Swan principle that “rare events can be more significant than average ones — and may occur more often than we think”.
Their findings were quite enlightening. Standish, et al, take notice. Even better, they offer new investment guidelines that every CxO should be aware of.
Read my Active Information post.
