Posts Tagged ‘governance’
Making better decisions
TL;DR Decision making is at the heart of an organisation’s purpose, but it’s rare to see much effort being spent on improving the quality of decision making, and typical to see all decisions mired in time consuming bureaucratic process. We can do better, with a little coarse filtering, some doctrine and situational awareness, and a […]
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Tags: Agile, agility, data, decision making, decisions, doctrine, governance, loss aversion, OODA, strategy, Wardley
Multi Cloud Governance
This is one of those posts that started life on an email thread. It comes from a discussion on the topic of multi cloud governance for large enterprises. Why cloud? The answer is not ‘cloud is cheaper’, because it just isn’t. We know from Amazon’s financials that it’s gushing money because cloud is a high […]
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Tags: agility, CD, cloud, continuous delivery, cost, enterprise, governance, safety, speed
Styles of IT Governance
I had the pleasure of being invited along to one of Simon Wardley’s Leading Edge Forum dinners last week. Kate Craig-Wood did a great job of summing it up so I don’t have to: I hope to return to the questions of corporate irrationality in another post. The dinner was under Chatham House Rules, […]
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Tags: architecture, comparative, enterprise, governance, IT, law, principles, regulation, rules, strategy
NoSQL as a governance arbitrage
I got into a conversation earlier in the week with a techie friend about the merits of SSDs, which we both use these days for our main machines. It look a odd left turn when he said: Funny part for me is that I truly believe the SSD revolution will result in a swing back […]
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Tags: dba, enterprise, governance, nosql, rdb, rdbms, ssd
There’s a passage on governance in Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus that I really like: ‘Groups tolerate governance, which is by definition a set of restrictions, only after enough value has accumulated to make the burden worthwhile. Since that value builds up only over time, the burden of the rules has to follow, not lead.‘ It […]
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