The final quadrant of the Digital Architecture framework is the one which I believe poses most challenge to traditional models of management of technology (and maybe even management of people) in businesses today. The external-facing supporting activities that, for the most part, boil down to how we communicate with other people. For many years, this … Continue reading Digital Architecture: Comms services
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Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Samar at http://www.definingfactors.com - Mark at CIO Magazine... - ... resulting in accepting an offer to become one of their columnists - a good early test for the Digital Architecture framework - and a resolution (new year's or otherwise) to initiate Plan B Next week: Plan B
Continuing the tour around the quadrants, we come to the external-facing, core product-related activities that a business conducts. This is the area in which there has probably been the greatest change in the past decade as a result of digital technologies - first with the Web, and latterly with smartphones, tablets and the world of … Continue reading Digital Architecture: Product services
One of the things that I was told in my two years of working in the software supplier world was that "there are only two sorts of people; those who make products and those who sell products". As on the day I heard it, I still believe that there is a one word, Anglo-Saxon retort … Continue reading Digital architecture: Production services
In my last post I introduce a simple 2x2 matrix that can help to classify services within an organisation to help make sense of how digital technologies impact and can be managed effectively. We'll now look at each of the four quadrants in turn, starting with the Support services. These internal business functions, processes, departments … Continue reading Digital Architecture: Support Services
The two-by-two matrix is the stock-in-trade of the management consulting industry. There's a reason for that - they are generally pretty useful, and help to put a bit of classification onto things that helps conversations about what to do next. As mentioned in my previous post, there are a number of technology architecture frameworks that … Continue reading A framework for Digital Architecture
Update - November 2015 - I've recently revised the Digital Architecture model Just before the Christmas break I wrote an article that explained why I think we are entering a new phase for technology where everyone needs to be able to understand something of the architecture of technology within the businesses they operate to make … Continue reading Becoming a digital architect
Every day it seems I can barely move in the world of the Internet without another big blurb about how software and developers are changing the world. Can you humour me for a moment so that we can lance that particular boil? For every Facebook or Twitter or whatever other clever doo-dad, there's a BBC … Continue reading We are all architects now
Well, that was quite a year. This time last year I was musing on a previous 12 months of quite substantial change - but it's been nothing in comparison to 2013. Leaping from the Corporate employee world into setting up stamp London, it's been quite a journey. Whilst the new business is certainly taking longer … Continue reading Yearnote 2013
Achievements this week included: - great conversations with @ChrisHoskin - @theLinkedInMan - and @blooders - at last getting some time to look at MailChimp to set up proper mailing lists for #socialCEO - and also this blog - some time spent defining a change management approach for agencies - and a play around with 123Dapp.com … Continue reading Weeknote 177: the fog
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