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Four Pillars: Thinking about standards in an enterprise architecture context

June 19th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Four pillars

In late 2004, we had quite a kerfuffle where I work, trying to decide what to do about Firefox. For sure it wasn’t the standard browser. For sure, if we blocked its use, it would not become the standard browser. So like everyone else we ummed and aahed, I spoke to my boss, and we [...]

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Four Pillars: Thinking about enterprise architecture

June 19th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Four pillars , Uncategorized

This morning’s Wall Street Journal had an article headlined “It’s Not Easy Being Lean”, and reading it, I formed the kernel of this particular snowball.
In the article, a steel company called Nucor is characterised as having just three layers of management between the CEO and the hourly workers on the factory floor. And Toyota, one [...]

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