Organization Visualization

How do you establish agile enterprise architecture? How can you rapidly develop and deploy applications to satisfy or even lead the market demand? Many enterprises are constructing and reorganizing the architecture using the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA). However, we may all encounter some problems when applying SOA using some existing development processes and notations, such as object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD), enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks, and business process modeling (BPM). For OOAD, it provides a micro-level abstraction such as classes and individual object instances, but the application can be changed easier than the services. We need a super level of abstraction on the application level, and sometimes it's not synchronized w... (more)

Zoho People Targets HR Departments

Zoho announced Zoho People, its human resource management application for companies that want to run their businesses online. People joins Zoho’s suite of business applications, including Zoho CRM, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Projects, and Zoho DB. The new offering is ideal for small and medium businesses (SMBs) with 50+ employees. “Zoho People is one of our first department-specific of... (more)

Situational Awareness

  Introduction   Leading businesses know that change is an ever-present and influential aspect of their operating environment. For many organizations, effective change management is nothing less than a core competency needed to maintain their competitive edge or even to survive. However managing change is a challenge and situational awareness (SA) is an important new capability that will... (more)

Rockefeller Foundation Gives $2 Million to Help Cities Promote Volunteerism

City Mayors to Begin Applying for Service Leadership Grants NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the newly formed Cities of Service coalition today announced the opening of the application period for the first-ever "Cities of Service Leadership Grants." Funded exclusively by the Rockefeller Foundation, the grants will be awarded to ten cities, on... (more)