Post 7.2 – Maximizing Innovation Potential
Introduction. Maximizing Innovation Potential by Leveraging Employee Engagement. This week’s second post is focused on a research note published by Gartner from 2011 offering recommendations to maximize the level of…
Post 7.1 – Best-Practices for Strategic IT Planning
Introduction. Best-In-Class Strategic Planning Perspectives. CIO Executive Editorial published an article by Stephanie Overby in 2017 which presented recommendations for best practice strategic IT planning from CIOs of some of…
Post 6.2 – The Business Architecture Landscape (BAL) Concept
Introduction / Definition: Business Architecture Landscape. Blosch, Brand, & Osmond in their April 2022 article propose a grouping of business models they title the ‘Business Architecture Landscape’, or BAL. The…
Post 6.1 – Business-Outcome-Driven Enterprise Architecture (BODEA)
Introduction. For this week’s first post we review the definition of Business Architecture (BA) and then dive into the evolution of major trends in enterprise architecture in it’s approximate half-decade…
Post 5.2 – IT Security Concepts & Definitions.
Summary. This week’s second post will review key definitions for IT security, examine some best practices, and lastly we’ll briefly look at some risks to supply chains based on digital…
Post 5.1 – Human Resourcing for IT
Introduction. This week’s first post focuses on another aspect of human resource management in IT, this time more specifically related to security architecture. In their 2019 report “Focus on Competencies…
Post 4.2 – Personnel in Data Management
Introduction. This week’s second post will look at three important job functions within the modern IT landscape. By examining these positions we get a clearer picture of the requirements for…
Topic 4.1 – Comparing Data Storage Options: Hybrid, Cloud, and On-site
Introduction. For this week’s blog post we will be examining the concepts, benefits, challenges, and applications of a hybrid cloud data storage system. The primary sources for the referenced information…
Topic 3.2 – Data Warehouses & Data Lakes
Personal Lessons Learned. Primarily working as an end-user and in knowledge management roles within large organizations, learning about the dynamics of modern data management architectures was useful if only to…
Topic 3.1 – Master Data Management
Introduction. In this third blog installment (#3.1 and #3.2) at Penn State University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology’s graduate course, EA874 – Enterprise Information Technology Architecture, we focus on…