Check any of the global job boards for Architecture-related positions (e.g. Enterprise, Solutions, Business, Information, technology, etc.) and you will quickly see the obvious: Only a very small percentage of all Architecture jobs are non-technical. The majority of the demand is for architects who come with, both, deep technical skills and broad business & IT […]
Consider Letting Architecture Own Service Management
Service Management, performed correctly, is an enterprise-wide cross-discipline function that spans, both, the Business and IT. Yet, more often than not, Service Management is buried deep within IT Infrastructure and Operations Organizations, where only a handful of services that are only important to those organizations get any any real attention. As a result, Business Services […]
Best Practice: Blueprint for Information & Technology Management (ITM)
One of the biggest challenges many IT professionals and their businesses face is understanding everything an IT organization does (or needs to do). This leads to many different problems such as poor business expectation setting, acquiring or hiring incomplete skills, gaps in IT services, incomplete solutions designs, and much more. A powerful means of overcoming […]