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Importance Of Enterprise Architecture
GCN – After the last budget cycle, Richard Burk could clearly see the correlation between the maturity of an agency’s enterprise architecture and how well it controlled spending. Burk, the Office of Management and Budget’s chief architect, found agencies that … Continue reading
Hutchinson on Scenarios
Art Hutchinson expounds on the benefits of divergent scenarios for viable strategic planning – This is one reason that much traditional “Michael Porter style” strategic planning has fallen short: it requires crisp definitions of industry boundaries in order to yield meaningful insights. Define … Continue reading
Moroccans In Iraq
WaPo – Moroccans attracted to the war in Iraq as demonstrative of the globalization of black economy recruitment – About two dozen men from Tetouan and nearby towns in the Rif Mountains have traveled to Iraq in the past 18 months to … Continue reading
On JetBlue
Neeleman is handling the situation well although it never should have happened. As stated in the NYT a large chunk of the problems stem from just a bad information platform which spawned cascading failures – The basic problem, he said, was JetBlue’s communication … Continue reading
Iraqi PMC Golden Era Ending
Pelton – Slogger is getting reports that the new round of RFP’s for major security and training contracts in Iraq have a new wrinkle: Complete handover to Iraqis at end of contract. The contract specs could herald the beginning of … Continue reading