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 with the BPM. EA also is limited in that it cannot reach down to the design domain. For BPM, the pr... (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 help every organization manage change more effectively.   SA as a concept, technology and practice has been around for some years in specific operating environments, such as the military and av... (more)

John Zachman, Edward de Bono and the Art of Presentation

What is common between John Zachman (who created the field of Enterprise Architecture) and Edward de Bono (who originated the term Lateral Thinking)? Both of them are now septuagenarian and have been pioneer in their respective field and have their respective strong personal brand – but that is not what I am talking about. Recently, thanks to Sunil of iCMG, I had the opportunity to meet John Zachman in an evening event. There I learned that he uses the old fashioned transparencies and overhead projector for all his training programs. In a way it is apt as one of the key points th... (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 offerings,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “Unlike other SaaS players, Zoho uniquely delivers online productivity apps, business apps, and now department-specific apps under a sin... (more)

Productive Computing, Inc., a Platinum Member of the FileMaker Business Alliance, Announces the Release of OrgPlanner, a New Software Solution for Business Owners and Managers

SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/19/10 -- Inspired by author Michael Gerber's bestselling book, The E-Myth Revisited - Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, this software allows small business owners and managers to define and document their company's Strategic Objective and Organizational Strategy in an easy to use software application. Key features include: Goal Tracking: -- Create business, professional and personal goals -- Specify whether they are short or long term goals -- Break each goal down into manageable tasks Positions and Organization Cha... (more)