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What are the characteristics of pseudo-science? Here is Beyerstein's list of characteristics of pseudoscience as exposed in Patrick’s Lambe’s post on “ Is KM a pseudoscience? “: Isolation – failure to connect with prior and parallel disciplines Non-falsifiability – no means to invalidate hypotheses Misuse of data – leveraging data out of context or beyond validity No self-correction, evolution of thought – often centred round a single ‘thought-leader’ Special-pleading – the claim that this is...
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"...Our natural inclination is to reduce matter first to molecules and then to atoms... But this approach...does not always work. In other words, the whole can often be more than the sum of the parts. Just consider the beautiful patterns created by large flocks of birds flying in the sky, which cannot be explained by understanding in ever greater detail the physiology of those birds. It is the interactions between the birds that are the key: the patterns form if each individual simply keeps...
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I choose to chat again about Enterprise Architecture and EA frameworks. "If you have ever watched a house being built, or if you have ever had an addition put onto an existing house, you know that the standard method of communication is a big piece of paper called a blueprint. Blueprinting is the standard method used to copy large architectural and construction drawings. A blueprint used to consist of white lines on a blue background. A more recent process uses blue lines on a white background...
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"Despite SOA adoption being the highest in Europe (nearly 70% of European organizations), few companies master the art of building SOA, and the more difficult art of using it to a company's advantage. In times when it is absolutely vital to prove the value of every initiative, this session will introduce the content of the conference and start unveiling how SOA can contain costs, get more out of your existing assets, exploit discontinuities in the market, and simply ride a disruptive innovation...
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How do we employ our Business Process Framework, eTOM, to align, improve, implement... our processes? Here are a couple of interesting articles from BPTrends that may help us, about processes, re-use and why not practices and culture. Also, for the architect a reference to SOA Consortium's business architecture. “What happens when well-designed processes do not align with the practices of the supervisors who perform them? ... Even with well designed processes, the behavioural practices of groups...
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I'll continue my Frameworks and Enterprise Architecture series for a short while. The framework importance is de-emphasized deliberatelysometimes. But without a framework though, it is impossible to have foreseeable, repeatableand integrated outcomes. Same development would have a different path and differentoutcomes at different times. Every development might link the same parts in differentways. Two teams may come at very different results for the same development. A framework describes the...
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What is EA? I promise a down to earth definition. We have all these plans for the CRM, data warehouse, portal, printing and floor maps, networks, manufacturing bands, buildings, locations... EA is supposed to integrate all plans or blueprints in a whole, the parts of which can be related. Not that we don’t have these designs, we do. But they are devised with different components, diagramming techniques, symbols, tools... A plan is typically useful only to a small community which has its own vocabulary...
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Having seen Gartner's IT forecast, I said, at first, that there is nothing new under the sun. Still, how would that affect us, assuming things happen? After all, we provide for these industries. The Cloud and overseas outsourcing seem to have a large impact in this estimation. The mobile penetration in accessing the Internet and the mobile e-commerce and banking transactions take centre stage. I found particularly interesting this section: " The most powerful position in the context business...
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SOA, from an IT perspective, is an Enterprise Integration technology consisting of service definition, orchestration (BPMS/BPEL), description (WSDL), registration, discovery (UDDI) and distribution (ESB) technologies. Nevertheless, SOA is more than IT although its origins are in IT. From a business viewpoint, it is a way of structuring a business as clusters of loosely coupled services. SOA, apart from agility and reusability, enables: • The Business to specify processes as orchestrations of reusable...
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Piggybacking on Martin's Four Transformation Myths blog. Well, I do that too often. After all, why do we need to transform our business? The world is revolving faster and faster. Too fast perhaps. And it’s becoming ever more complex and organically so but not like the food, more like an organism; hard to tell how it really works. There is another reason for transformation. The fear of becoming the infamous "pipe". There is neither prestige nor yield in that. Who wants to become an utility...
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