Miko Matsumura Platform Software Executive Technologist

There is no “I” in IT: Oh wait yes there is.

The Dynamic Enterprise I’m in the airport in Victoria on my way back from giving a talk sponsored by the Office of the CIO in the Government of British Columbia entitled “Enterprise-Scale Business Transformation with SOA and BPM”. Increasingly, I’m seeing efforts around large-scale Business Transformation involving the dynamic system of Business and IT. In my talk, I asked the following question: How do you achieve “Business Transformation” in a system...

Inside of a Dog, it’s too Dark to Read: SOA and Business Variation

Groucho Marx once famously said “outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read” The amusement is that the word “outside” is semantically ambiguous. What’s less funny is the SOA Manifesto stating that they will follow the principle of “Pursue uniformity on the outside while allowing diversity on the inside.” Much like the Groucho Marx quote, the antecedent for “outside” is ambiguous....

The Legacy of Enterprise 2.0–Concluding thoughts from the Conference

The absolute highlight of last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference was meeting in person and online many very bright people including Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Susan Scrupski, Michael Krigsman and many others. There’s certainly a strong discourse here about advancing the agenda for Enterprise computing. As with many advanced topics in Enterprise computing, it’s very easy to take a potshot: as we all know: * SOA is Dead (Anne Thomas Manes) * Enterprise 2.0 what a Crock (Dennis...

The Enterprise 2.0 Crock

I think it’s great to have a panel called “Is Enterprise 2.0 a Crock?” at the Enterprise 2.0 conference. Much like SOA conference panels addressing “Is SOA Dead?” Dennis Howlett posed this question in his blog, entitled Enterprise 2.0: What a Crock. The summary paragraph is quoted here: Like it or not, large enterprises - the big name brands - have to work in structures and hierarchies that most E2.0 mavens ridicule but can’t come up with alternatives that...

Top 5 Definitions of Enterprise: focusing on the Enterprise in “Enterprise 2.0″

It’s a cool sunny day in San Francisco and there’s some bustle at the Moscone center. Enterprise 2.0 conference. You can tell it’s an Enterprise conference because unlike the Web 2.0 Conference there’s no free pass even to the show floor. Also the full pass is about $2500 bucks. One way to define Enterprise is: en⋅ter⋅prise   /ˈɛntərˌpraɪz/ [en-ter-prahyz] –noun 5. Stuff I wouldn’t do unless you paid me. This definition puts Enterprise...