Less IT is more
Less is more is an old truism, but what happens if we apply this to IT?
How would the enterprise work if we took away all IT systems that doesn't give benefits to your customers, with the exception for legal requirements?
The importance of innovation - Architecture Corner, episode #15
The world spins faster and faster, and you need to improve your ability to change. Innovation and using things in a new context is critical for IT's ability to deliver business value.
It's a turn-key solution
You make a tender, evaluate their different bids and then select a supplier based on a set of criteria. The supplier then provide a turn-key solution and the only thing you have to do it accept the final delivery. How hard can it be?
Security theater - Architecture Corner, episode #14
Security is important but the measures we take to achieve it are not always effective. These ineffective or even counterproductive security measures are known as "security theater".
Extreme contracts and immediate rewards - Architecture Corner, episode #13
Greger Wikstrand and Joakim Lindbom (both Enterprise Architects from Capgemini) discuss Extreme Contracts and the behavior agreements creates.In order to make faster changes, you need to work in other ways and make other deals. The discussion continues with technical debt and how old behavior created this situation.