http://dougmcdavid.com/blog Business architecture Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:38:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am finally finding time to document some of the thoughts that I had in the context of the VW-LEM. I used the occasion of a panel discussion to bring these up at the conference, and I thought it might be worth capturing that moment here as well. For that audience ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/report-from-vw-lem/ I have had more meetings in the real world on the subject of virtual worlds in the last few weeks than in the last year! Well, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but there have been several. I mentioned the talk at SF MOMA the presentation ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/more-virtual-worlds-events/ Is it possible to recognize a blessing unattributed but appreciated with gratitude nonetheless? If so that's how I feel about a lot of things these days. http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/blessing/ I invested this past weekend in an interesting workshop sponsored by the Federation of American Scientists and the Mellon Foundation, and hosted at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. This was an event that lived up to its billing as a gathering of leading scholars and technologists exploring the ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/virtual-worlds-for-arts-and-humanities-research/ Earlier I mentioned that I was going to give a presentation on my experiences in, and thoughts about, doing serious work in virtual words to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science.  This turned out to be a very entertaining experience, at least for me.  A ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/presentation-at-slis/ It is not quite too late to submit a proposal for a demo or presentation, and it is most definitely not too late to sign up for participation in this conference.  This is just one of the many "spare time" activities that I have enjoyed as a result of participating ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/virtual-worlds-conference-on-libraries-etc/ I will be coming back again and again to the theme of the architecture of businesses as living human social systems.  As one anecdotal point that business executives (even very technically minded business executives) actually think that way, I want to capture this post from Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog.  Not all ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/wladawsky-berger-on-living-businesses/ Before getting back to the more detailed subjects that I mentioned in this post on a business architecture viewpoint, I thought I should say a few words about the concept of a system.  This is fundamental, not only to my thinking about business, to my thinking about everything.  What I ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/systems-an-ontological-viewpoint/ Earlier this week I had an amazing opportunity to help bridge two important locations in the world of art. Now, this is an area where I have absolutely zero credentials to be participating, and yet, somehow, it seemed to work. It worked in particular thanks to three virtual ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/virtual-world-art-at-sf-moma/ Interesting week this week.  The Open Group is holding a quarterly meeting in San Francisco -- as local to me as it will ever be.  But I'm consciously NOT representing IBM in the meetings of the Business Architecture Working Group (BAWG).  This is part of my resolution to stop maintaining ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/missing-the-bawg-of-tog/ We are hearing more and more about the concept of business architecture these days, as a specialized professional area of expertise. What follows is a personal viewpoint, developed over a number of years of study and experience.  In the context of growing interest, it is fair to ask, “What is the ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/a-viewpoint-on-business-architecture/ This weekend signaled a season of changes in my life.  My younger daughter turned 21 (after a long daily countdown!), and we marked that event by a wonderful dinner for a few family and friends at the restaurant where she works.  Amanda has been very grown up for quite a ... http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/a-time-for-fresh-starts/ This Wordpress installation was installed and configured by David Ing, as he wrote the instructions on the Coevolving Innovations blog. http://dougmcdavid.com/blog/index.php/archive/welcome-to-dougmcdavidcom/