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I liked this post and thought it was worth sharing on the Sarquol site… it is a semi-serious look at ways to keep momentum when the going gets tough.

WIMMING YOUR WAY THROUGH A HARD JOB

http://blog.theitjobboard.co.uk/2010/03/wimming-your-way-through-a-hard-job/

Enjoy.

I was reading an article recently that suggested there are basically 4 types of innovation that a company might seek to undertake:

1. Product innovation, whereby a new product or service is brought to market or a current one improved;
2. Process innovation, whereby processes and procedures are modified to make them more efficient
3. Positioning innovation, whereby a product or service stays fundamentally the same but is sold to a different market or as a different proposition
4. Paradigm innovation, whereby an innovation is effectively disruptive and facilitates some form of fundamental change

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I recently needed to consider the state of a System Architecture and consider the changes likely to be needed over time. Thus, I was trying to produce a “Roadmap” for the architecture into the future. The challenge was that the future is uncertain. Some items can be planned for, and others are dependent on the way the business and technological environments develop. These developments can be considered to be the product of various “forces” playing out in the environment of the system. How then can you address this complexity? Continue reading ‘Future Scenarios in Architecture…’ »

I have received feedback that the performance model would be more useful if it was better documented. The is a tour of the model available (here), but that doesn’t make it clear how to apply the model ina typical usage scenario. I have, therefore, decided to illustrate the use of the model using a fictional example. Continue reading ‘Archive Post: Performance Model Example’ »