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Beyond Alignment: Applying Syste
ms Thinking to Architecting Enterprises
Edited by John Gøtze and Anders Jensen-Waud
The book is a comprehensive reader about how enterprises can apply systems thinking in their enterprise architecture practice, for business transformation and for strategic execution. The book’s contributors find that systems thinking is a valuable way of thinking about the viable enterprise and how to architect it.
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Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprises for Alignment, Agility and Assurance
Edited bu Gary Doucet, John Gøtze, Pallab Saha, and Scott Bernard
The book introduces the idea of Coherency Management, and asserts that this is the primary outcome goal of an enterprise’s architecture. With submissions from over 30 authors and co-authors, the book reinforces the idea that EA is being practiced in an ever-increasing variety of circumstances – from the tactical to the strategic, from the technical to the political, and with governance that ranges from sell to tell. The characteristics, usages, value statements, frameworks, rules, tools and countless other attributes of EA seem to be anything but orderly, definable, classifiable, and understandable as might be hoped given heritage of EA and the famous framework and seminal article on the subject by John Zachman over two decades ago. Notably, EA is viewed as an Enterprise Design and Management approach, adopted to build better enterprises, rather than a IT Design and Management approach limited to build better systems.
Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration
Edited by Rien Dijkstra, John Gøtze, and Pieter van der Ploeg. Foreword by Chris Potts. Over 20 contributors.
Given the complexity of modern organizations and the dependencies between the organization and its customers, employees, partners and suppliers, sourcing activities can be quite an endeavour. Without fully understanding the strategic, tactical and operational consequences, sourcing can be riskfull and where bad decisions can lead to serious repercussions. But sourcing can also be done right. Hence this book.
We are interested in finding a way to improve the strategy and decision making and improve the execution of the organizational transformation in case of splitting the organization or integrating mergers and acquisitions. So is there a way to make the dependencies at the level of people, process and technology visible and explicit so that well informed decisions can be made? How agile is the chosen solution, how well is it equipped to future changes? And last but not least can we assure that the solution that is chosen is in line with the chosen business strategy, business models, business plans and the technology that is available?
State of the eUnion
34 global thought-leaders share views and ideas about the current state of eGovernment and what has come to be known as Government 2.0.The book’s themes include: How the “web 2.0″ revolution affects eGovernment activities. How the digital grassroots, entrepreneurs and ‘goverati’ are working to change government. How new tools, used over the internet, are going to change the way government interacts with citizens.
Don Tapscott writes in the book’s foreword: “Every government leader, every elected official and every government employee should read this book and get involved in one of the most exciting challenges of our times – transforming government for effectiveness, relevance and success, enabled by a new medium of communications and required for the emerging citizens of the 21st century. The stakes are very high”.
The book’s contributors touch on a number of different subjects, all related to making government work better. Some deal with getting government data out into the open, breaking down data silos. Others focus on how to interact with the public through interactive websites. Still others discuss how to facilitate organizational change that will open up government.
Editors: John Gøtze & Christian Bering Pedersen.
GREENING IT
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Edited by Adrian T. Sobotta, Irene N. Sobotta and John Gøtze.
Foreword by Connie Hedegaard.
The Greening of IT is a symptom of a much larger challenge for humankind – transitioning from economic childhood into maturity. Despite the emergence of large regional alliances such as the EC, humankind remains incredibly fragmented; and yet the need for global climate and energy policies is pressing. IT offers tantalizing technical solutions to our emissions and growth dilemma: it can grow greener and help with the greening of other industries. This book explores this potential.