Strategic IT Architecture

SOA at the “Structural Break”

Posted on06. Apr, 2009 by vbrown.

Those of us who are IT strategists and practitioners – and especially if we’re SOA advocates – can gain some critical insights from an excellent article in the McKinsey Quarterly by Richard Rumelt. Rumelt is Professor of Business and Society , Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles. In his article, he describes [...]

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Master Data Management—the original killer app?

Posted on05. Feb, 2009 by vbrown.

Wow! The phone has been “ringing off the hook” in the past few weeks with inquiries related to master data management (MDM)! As an enterprise architect and consultant, I’ve been involved in several client master data management initiatives over the past few years (including my current engagement) but there seems to be a swell of [...]

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