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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
EA must be integrated with business strategy: Gartner Setting priorities for an enterprise architecture isn't just a matter of copying ones set by a peer group, warns an industry analyst
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
City of Toronto CIO explains enterprise architecture plan Dave Wallace gives a first-hand account of how he's making sure business and IT priorities are aligned in Canada's largest municipality. Plus: Contribute to the CIO Canada Brainstorm Centre
Friday, October 09, 2009
eHealth cash not totally squandered, auditor says Ontario's electronic health records initiative isn't a success by any metric, but some of the investment can be salvaged. What eHealth Ontario needs to get back on its feet
Monday, July 27, 2009
HRSDC: We spent $70M on mainframes last year Federal IT executives are trying to set up an enterprise architecture that will make the public sector more responsive and accountable to citizens, but there’s a lot of legacy work to do first
Monday, November 24, 2008
5 hot IT certifications in a frigid job market Once deemed as the ticket to higher pay, tech certificates are now essential to avoid the unemployment line. Here are some tips on which certifications are worth pursuing
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
City of Toronto's first CIO builds enterprise architecture A Web site redesign complete with Web 2.0 capabilities is just one of the projects the City of Toronto's first-ever CIO has added to his plate in just over a year on the job.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
‘Genesis’ breathes life into enterprise mash-up Social computing takes on a new role with Web 2.0 as the vehicle for delivering business applications
Thursday, May 31, 2007
How CIOs spin their wheels Gartner has released a 'hit list' which identifies six time-wasting practices that CIOs should avoid to maintain a focus on key priorities that maximize value to the business. 
Monday, January 29, 2007
Five steps to SOA success SOA isn't just trendy, it's here and it's working. Most large enterprises have already launched some sort of SOA initiative, the objective being an agile architecture that can respond to business needs in near-real time. Along the way, SOA provides a means for fixing systems that have languished in a dysfunctional state for years. 
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Characteristics of an effective enterprise architect What personal characteristics, knowledge, and skills are most commonly found in effective enterprise architects? Although not at all intuitive, several traits are even more important than knowledge of enterprise architecture.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Take a Holistic Approach to Security In my experience, most IT professionals fundamentally understand that the “wait and see” attitude is no longer an effective way to manage security. Reacting to viruses and threats after a breach has occurred can be costly and inefficient. This approach not only leads to a very ad hoc security program but it distracts the IT team from their primary activities – usually those efforts that supply the company with a strategic advantage. 
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Enterprise Architecture Helps Enable Portfolio Management Portfolio management provides important and useful concepts for the management of IT assets. But unlike financial portfolios, it has been virtually impossible to remove any IT assets from the enterprise. A well-designed enterprise architecture can help.
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
GAO: NASA needs plan for IT re-engineering project A multi-year project by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to upgrade its financial management and supporting IT systems lacks a basic enterprise architecture that would rein in costs and define best practices, according to a U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) report. 
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Building with vision In 1999, the government of Alberta had 24 ministries that operated independently when it came to IT. As a result, many duplicate systems were operating in each department, with a lot of duplicate information stored in silos.
Monday, January 27, 2003
Judging infrastructure As CIOs are pushed to speed up responsiveness to the business while reducing costs, it is increasingly important that they know how to judge the contribution of their infrastructure organization. CIOs should insist that the infrastructure organization follow methods whose primary focus is to reduce cost of change, while also measuring the key areas of complexity and utilization.
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