June 2022 – R&A IT Strategy & Architecture

Let’s bury NIST’s outdated definition of Cloud Computing

Posted by gctwnlon June 29, 2022January 2, 2023in Enterprise Architecture, Management and Organisation5 Comments

The NIST definition of Cloud Computing from 2011 has now become so much an oversimplification that it is more often than not unhelpful, e.g. when trying to base your policies on it. So, forget about 'IAAS' and 'PAAS', end your 'cloud policies' or cloud-specific procedures. Instead, concentrate on managing the key generic issue underlying it: the ever more complex mixes of owned and outsourced algorithms and data..

Will McKinsey be the first ‘big consultancy’ that gets (enterprise) architecture right?

Posted by gctwnlon June 6, 2022June 10, 2022in Agile and Architecture, Architecture Principles, Enterprise Architecture, Management and Organisation5 Comments

McKinsey seems to be the first 'big consultancy' that really frees itself from outdated, ineffective, orthodox enterprise architecture notions.