101 Principles of Enterprise Architecture Principles are the foundation of your Enterprise Architecture — the enduring rules and guidelines of your architecture. They send an important message to your stakeholders — that EA recommendations are not arbitrary. Principles should enable the business to achieve their strategy and be simple, consistent, flexible, enduring and useful: One bad principle can lead to thousands of bad architectural decisions — principles must be chosen with
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those associated with the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture at Karachi have been asked: - What was the need for the Indus Valley School to spend so much time and effort to re-locate an old building on its campus, and, - Why the Nusserwanjee Building? The answers to these questions can be linked to the day, May 1, 1991, when twelve prominent architects of the city brain-stormed at the Indus Valley School to evolve a design criteria for its new campus. The school had just acquired a
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Case Study: Eastman Kodak 1. The different factors that motivated Kodak to change its organizational architecture are: A. stiff competition. For many years, Eastman Kodak had control on the film production industry. The firm had managed to time the release of its new products to meet customer demands. However, in the 1980s, Eastman Kodak’s virtual monopoly of the film production industry was rattled by the entry of Fuji Corporation’s high quality film. The new product from Fuji Corporation
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Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity This Page Intentionally Left Blank Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity A Platform for Designing Business Architecture SECOND EDITION Jamshid Gharajedaghi AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803
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product design and price efficiency which were directly related to cost and differentiation advantage. As a high-volume buyer, Samsung benefited discounts offered from raw material suppliers which had resulted Samsung’s cost to manufacture a DRAM chip to be lower than its competitors. Samsung’s ability to produce over 1,200 different variations of DRAM products was a huge advantage which was unmatched by its competitors. Samsung also provided “Specialty products” using customized architecture for niche
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European Management Journal (2008) 26, 289– 297 journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/emj Service co-production and value co-creation: The case for a service-oriented architecture (SOA) q Andrea Ordanini a,*, Paolo Pasini b a b Bocconi University, Viale Filippetti, 9, 20122 – Milan, Italy SDA Bocconi, School of Management, Via Bocconi, 8, 20136 – Milan, Italy Available online KEYWORDS Service dominant logic; Co-production; Service management Summary An emerging marketing
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Philosophy and Design Pieter E. Vermaas • Peter Kroes Andrew Light • Steven A. Moore Philosophy and Design From Engineering to Architecture Pieter E. Vermaas Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands Andrew Light University of Washington Seattle USA Peter Kroes Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands Steven A. Moore University of Texas Austin USA ISBN 978-1-4020-6590-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6591-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937486 © 2008 Springer
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LEGO case: Discussion Questions 1. How did the information systems and the organization design changes implemented by Knudstorp align with the changes in business strategy? The day Knudstorp taken over the business. He made significant changes in supply chain links by reusing components in their new products. This process decreased the use of parts from 13,000 to 7,000 which in turn lead to reduction in expenses spent on buying component mold. Lego changed the way their components were
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U.S. Navy’s UHF SATCOM operation needs a tool to automate the frequency planning process, maximizing the efficiency of the spectrum use. This paper presents a UHF SATCOM frequency reuse planning tool developed for the operational needs. The design concept of the Tool is explained in consideration of the technical analyses needs and usability of the software for the UHF SATCOM operation. The multi-tier architecture of the software application is described. The analytical functions are programmed
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TeleResources is one of the few independent Australian engineering companies focused on this sector. We are the exclusive distributor of Atoll™, the radio planning tool used by large operators such as Telstra and VHA. Our engineers have been involved in the design of the latest 3G networks as well as emerging technologies such as LTE. For this reason we have often been sought out by operators, vendors and independent service providers wanting to get experience with our tools and benefit from our global knowledge
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