Enterprise architecture is the glue for innovation
Often I wonder why people start thinking about Enterprise Architecture only when “Information system” word comes on the table. All seems defined and almost decided, when the baton is passed to IT...
View ArticleHas your Business changed ? Try Enterprise Architecture then.
Most of big french companies front-office are machines : internet services, interactive vocal responders. And when it is not automated, call center operators are difficult to reach, they have not the...
View ArticleCESAMES ? Better than Ali Baba !
Who did not attend to the CESAMES conference at “La Maison des Arts et Métiers” ? According to me, a few as the place was crowded and requiring to get more chairs than prepared. Why such a success ?...
View ArticleIt is time that Enterprise Architecture becomes a true art of Architecture…
Most of enterprises expect from their IT Division to develop and maintain information and communications infrastructure which includes networking and telecommunications, desktop computing, business...
View ArticleEuropean crisis urges companies to reshuffling their change capabilities
European economic prospects are gloomy. Just have a look to newspapers frontpages if you are not yet convinced. In such context, as I wrote once, best strategy would be to “be prepared to start again“....
View ArticleThat’s why my friends CIOs need the best whishes for 2012.
CIOs don’t need to read any comprehensive Chaos Manor report to know that project deliveries come always in late and are never or rarely in advance. It is like flights or train travels, things always...
View ArticleSuccessful Solvency II programs have opened the doors to enterprise architecture
Solvency II regulatory initiative aims to normalize the way Insurance companies will measure risks, will manage their portfolio in accordance and will report on their record to control authority. Such...
View ArticleCooperation for transforming french economy.
If France does not transform its economy in depth, the financial crisis sounds the start of repeated crises. This transformation will not be the result of technical measures, but a radical change of...
View ArticleHow many enterprises will be buried next year in France ?
Current crisis is not only changing business environment but lead governments to change legal and taxation rules too. Some agents prefer saving money to investing which is often view as too risky even...
View ArticleDigitizing companies is industrializing France
There are many talks about re-industrialization of France discussing on industrial production and services, as there is great hope based on multiplication of plants expected to increase employment and...
View ArticleNo disruptive innovation without great productivity growth
By now, word Innovation flourishes often on political and managers lips as many entrepreneurs dream to transform an idea in gold. This is the modern rush. Looking at carefully, allows to discover soon...
View ArticleRace against the Machine – Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Is America really running a race against the Machine ? Even if in August unemployment slipped to 7.3 %, its lowest level for five years, it is due mainly to people giving up to search a job. In the...
View ArticleCEO stop struggling, start transforming
Business is changing, more and more computers are replacing humans at work, it is quicker in countries like France where heavier taxes and contributions weigh on salaries. This is a silent move which...
View ArticleFuture of managers is programming and architecture
Today , managers have to optimize and sometimes to reegine their activities to achieve continuous improvement requested by General Management. This requires implementation of so-called ” quality ”...
View ArticleIdea 1 : « Technology focuses on function, often it leaves apart organization.»
We know from Bateson, Morin, Caseau, and others … that living beings organizations are complex systems, and among them the business companies. As rightly exposes Henri Atlan, these systems can not be...
View ArticleFailure 1 : a thwarted digital transformation
Digital transformation is a buzzword of today because it brings great promises to enterprises and new agile approaches allow to overcome hurdles of it. Yet, this is not that kind of experience that...
View ArticleWill the twenty-first century be a century of crisis ?
“The twenty-first century will be religious or it will not!” At the end of the twentieth century, Protestant moral values had revealed Max Weber [3] are clearly not at work anymore. Some even spoke...
View ArticleTo be or not to be digital, this is not a question
The digital transformation or digital transition is today the subject “must have” of any corporate strategy. If it is absent, the credibility of the growth prospects will be mechanically reduced, when...
View ArticleEverybody should understand Finance
Without finance pace toward progress would have been very slow Finance allows to achieve today what it would have been done tomorrow. Then it makes a bet against future and has to deal with...
View ArticleBrexit will happen. So what ?
What is Europe? Is she the princess with big eyes who, clinging to the back of a huge bull, crossed Mediterranea from Tyre to Crete? This traumatic event marked the shift of human civilization core...
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