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Vince Kellen
Senior Consultant
Vince Kellen is a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Business-IT Strategies and Business Intelligence practices. He is Vice President for Information Services (CIO) at DePaul University, where he offers strategic vision to a staff of 160 employees in all areas of IT including architecture, web services, data warehousing, network and data center operations, academic computing, information security, human-computer interaction and creative design in web and print media. More...
The Mainframe Cometh
It is back. And it is angry.
And it is called virtualization. And it has people afraid. But not me.
Think of it. All CPU cycles completely fungible. Imagine the possibilities.
Got 500 idle desktops running Microsoft Vista? Assign the CPU and I/O resources to your core ERP system. Need to bring up seven servers with a full […]
The Fourth Age
Twenty years ago, Peter Drucker wrote about the coming of the new, information-based organization, which twenty years later we now take nearly for granted as incarnate everywhere. While information-based organizations rely on and have been largely created by advanced IT, Drucker notes that not all such organizations require advanced IT. Advanced IT lets firms eliminating […]
My Killer Architecture Team
At the Cutter Summit this year, I attended Mike Rosen’s talk on “Ten Things an Architect Does” and thoroughly enjoyed the conversation about the job of an architect. But it got me thinking about the different things architects do and how many kinds of architects it would be nice to have.
My Killer Architecture Team would […]
The Parable of the Bike Race
I finally had the chance to catch up with a long-time colleague of mine for lunch a few months back on a cold, wintry and blustery Chicago day. We sat down, and ordered tea and coffee. Not waiting to order our food, she immediately began to tell me a story about a recently retired CIO […]
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Category: Business-IT Strategies, IT Management
A Disparity of Clarity
Recently, I had the chance to talk with two CIOs from large, multi-billion and multi-national businesses with names we all recognize. To protect the identities of those involved, let’s call them Firm A and Firm B.
Firm A is a still rapidly growing consumer electronics manufacturing firm. But over the past ten years, this firm went […]
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Category: Business-IT Strategies, IT Management, Outsourcing
Choking on “One Throat to Choke”
Beat ‘em up. Knock ‘em down. Slap ‘em around. Keep them on a short leash. Teach them a lesson. Make ‘em behave. Vendors, that is.
This phrase has recently seeped into common IT parlance. I’ve even heard vendors, typically large ones, say that the reason we should buy their wares is that they can then provide […]
Woeful Knowledge Management
Please indulge me momentarily and pardon this esoterica. By the time you finish reading this, I hope I will have shown the need for this “scenic detour.”
For a long time thinkers and practitioners in the area of knowledge management have made a distinction between knowledge that is tacit and knowledge that is explicit. Knowledge and […]
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Category: Business-IT Strategies, Web 2.0
Handmaidens
We are not alone.
In the struggle for business strategy alignment, I believe we have a compatriot in, if you can believe it, marketing. After all, we in IT have much in common with marketing.
Certainly longer in the tooth and possessing a meaner kick than the young colt known as the enterprise architect, the brand strategists […]
Godzilla vs. King Kong
In the one corner stands the fire breathing reptile, Enterprise Architecture and in the other corner we see pacing restlessly an 8,000 pound gorilla known as Agile Development. Eternally opposed to each other, these two ways of looking at the world fight it out year after year.
Enterprise architects like a command and control, autocratic and […]
Insidious Knowledge
The optimists among us would like to think that the abundance of information, easily transmitted, will result in companies that are less hierarchical and more democratic. That perhaps the firm as we know it will become extinct. I was, for a brief, tongue-in-cheek moment, one of those optimists.
Others, like Andrew McAfee at Harvard, suggests that […]
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