Examining the State of EA and Findings of Recent SurveyDana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored podcast panel discussion on the findings from a study on the current state and future direction of enterprise architecture from a from The Open Group 2011 U.S. Conference.
02062012 togfs businesstransEnterprise Architecture and Enterprise Transforma...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored podcast discussion on the respective roles of enterprise architecture and enterprise transformation and the danger of conflating the two.
The Power of Virtual Collaboration in Project ManagementCitrix Online
This new eBook explores how companies can implement virtual collaboration tools throughout the project lifecycle to effectively manage projects from start to finish.
This document discusses how remote work is becoming more common and outlines 3 steps companies can take to create a more engaged remote workforce: 1) identify the right remote-enabling technologies; 2) establish a remote working policy; and 3) integrate remote technologies into key business functions like HR, sales, and marketing. It provides examples of how cloud technology, video conferencing, mobile devices, and enterprise social media can help attract and engage talent, streamline sales processes, and allow marketing teams to collaborate across distances.
Instantly Connecting Developers Across The MilesCitrix Online
This new white paper examines the key challenges remote developers and teams face while exploring the advantages of leveraging an online collaboration solution to instantly connect, eliminate travel and expedite projects.
Examining the State of EA and Findings of Recent SurveyDana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored podcast panel discussion on the findings from a study on the current state and future direction of enterprise architecture from a from The Open Group 2011 U.S. Conference.
02062012 togfs businesstransEnterprise Architecture and Enterprise Transforma...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored podcast discussion on the respective roles of enterprise architecture and enterprise transformation and the danger of conflating the two.
The Power of Virtual Collaboration in Project ManagementCitrix Online
This new eBook explores how companies can implement virtual collaboration tools throughout the project lifecycle to effectively manage projects from start to finish.
This document discusses how remote work is becoming more common and outlines 3 steps companies can take to create a more engaged remote workforce: 1) identify the right remote-enabling technologies; 2) establish a remote working policy; and 3) integrate remote technologies into key business functions like HR, sales, and marketing. It provides examples of how cloud technology, video conferencing, mobile devices, and enterprise social media can help attract and engage talent, streamline sales processes, and allow marketing teams to collaborate across distances.
Instantly Connecting Developers Across The MilesCitrix Online
This new white paper examines the key challenges remote developers and teams face while exploring the advantages of leveraging an online collaboration solution to instantly connect, eliminate travel and expedite projects.
Building digital product masters to prevail in the age of accelerations parts...Jeffrey Stewart
This document discusses the importance of building Digital Product Masters (DPMs) to help organizations adapt and succeed in today's rapidly changing environment. It argues that DPMs can help mitigate risks, reduce costs, and improve revenue. The document is presented in three parts:
Part 1 discusses how the world is accelerating and the new risks organizations face. It suggests that DPMs can help lower costs, mitigate risks, and create stronger customer lock-ins.
Part 2 explains what a DPM is and how it models activities, tools, flows, teams, capabilities, processes, technology, and people. It shows how a DPM can help align these different elements.
Part 3 will provide a case study
DesignOps aims to increase efficiencies and impact across organizations. To measure this, KPIs that evaluate performance against strategic goals are used. However, defining the right KPIs is complex as value is contextual and relational. A systemic, hypothesis-driven approach is needed to understand how improving one area, like designer time, can impact other parts of the system by creating a ripple of efficiencies. For example, reducing recruiting time for user tests could increase designer quality and speed of delivery, benefiting both design teams and businesses. The key is focusing KPIs on the biggest pains to trigger broader impacts, not isolating parts which overlooks relationships between elements.
Are looking for a trusted Technologist to help you grow your business? Someone who is entrepreneurial mindset with particle business experience, then view this presentation.
Practical co design guidance-workshop lessonsMark Hicks
This document discusses co-design and Vodafone's experience with it. They partnered with progressive collaborators to co-design a suite of "Micro-futures" services. They found that co-design has potential to deliver value and innovation if organized properly. Key lessons included using small teams, self-organization, clear objectives, constraints and guidance. There are different models for organizing co-design based on openness and ownership, including a club of experts, crowd model, coalition of parties, and community of kindred spirits.
Presentation held on 26.09.2019 at the "Digital Workplace and Employee Experience Summit" in Berlin (Germany)
HUMANIZING THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE: REINFORCING CULTURE, TAPPING INTO THE POWER OF EMPLOYEES & ENCOURAGING CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT
Steljes Productive Video & Data ConferencingGordon Rimmer
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
Efficient Teams Do Not Happen. They are Designed. It's called DesignOpsUXDXConf
There's an art behind happy and efficient teams and it's called DesignOps. Several studies demonstrate that designers spend up to 60% of their time doing non-design work.
But do you know where your team is spending their time instead of working on doing great design? Have you ever thought to measure your teams' inefficiencies?
DesignOps is the facilitating function that supports design teams to scale by improving ways of working, x-functional collaboration and processes so that designers can focus 100% on doing design.
This talk, based on first-hand experiences and learnings, will focus on key best practices to help position DesignOps at the right altitude, identify the right allies, and assess design teams’ performance and opportunities.
Tree Frog International is a digital marketing agency that helps clients achieve business goals through creative communication and effective marketing strategies. They take a collaborative approach to developing ideas and focus on practical execution. Their services include digital strategy planning, website design, social media strategy, and mobile app development. They aim to understand clients' audiences and help clients engage with them through the appropriate digital channels.
Why Should You Be Thinking About DesignOps?Eficode
This document summarizes key points from a presentation on DesignOps. It discusses how DesignOps can help unify tools, improve collaboration and communication, and enable design teams to scale more efficiently. Some key stats highlighted include the growing ratio of designers to developers at companies, and the annual costs of disorganization for design teams as they grow. DesignOps is presented as a way to modernize design workflows by making them more centralized, collaborative, transparent and simple.
Eight&four is a digital marketing agency founded in 2008 that is based in London. It provides services such as website development, SEO/PPC, social media, and email marketing. The agency has grown to 8 employees and works with clients across various sectors. Three case studies are described that showcase projects for Alzheimer's Society, WomanCare Global, and The Lord's Taverners. The projects involved developing websites and digital marketing strategies to meet specified goals, which resulted in increased engagement and sales.
Eight&four is a digital marketing agency founded in November 2008 and based in London. They specialize in web design, development, search engine marketing, email marketing, and social media strategy. The agency has grown to 8 employees and has an award-winning portfolio serving clients across various industries. Their services include website development, SEO/PPC, mobile development, email marketing, and social media.
This document discusses how professional organizations can learn from creative disciplines like art. It describes a project at SAP to create a simplified partner web experience using practices from design thinking. The cross-functional team overcame obstacles through unwavering persistence, design thinking, and collaboration. They conducted user research with over 40 partners to develop requirements and test prototypes. While facing setbacks, the team persevered and completed the project successfully. The document argues that skills like creativity, collaboration, and adaptability seen in art are important for knowledge workers and organizations in the digital age.
It’s more than designing shmick features to achieve kaching! - UX Australia 2020Catherine Hills
Both users and designers are similar in their views of some factors of e-commerce website UX design, but as would be expected, there are also differences arising from respective mental models and views. Specifically, those differences include users’ concerns regarding the security of purchasing and visual presentation of information and graphics. For designers, my research suggests they might heavily focus on information hierarchy and not surprising branding. These issues will be discussed in this talk by Catherine in relation to new contributions to theory and practice, extending from the literature and offering new recommendations to UX designers in the design of e-commerce user experience.
Presented at UX Australia 2020
http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conferences/ux-australia-2020/presentation/its-more-than-designing-shmick-features-to-achieve-kaching/
Bridgeable: Celebrating 10 years of Insight and ImpactBridgeable
Over the last 10 years, we've introduced the use of service design methods and tools to a variety of not-for-profit and caused-based organizations. This is a compilation of those case studies.
Social Business Centers Of Excellence: FoundationsLeader Networks
The document discusses how organizations are establishing Social Business Centers of Excellence (COEs) to better coordinate their social media strategies and initiatives across business units. It provides examples of how COEs at large companies like Shell function. COEs establish shared goals and standards to avoid duplicated efforts. They also develop tools and best practices that can be used across business units while allowing for customization. Establishing COEs helps companies leverage social media at scale through a unified vision and collaborative approach rather than competing initiatives within silos.
This document contains a mix of technical formulas, text, and figures with no clear overall topic. The text sections discuss building successful digital product teams and improving an organization's digital capabilities. It notes that clients increasingly ask agencies to help upskill their digital teams. The document provides perspectives on developing digital products, including choosing the right agency partner, understanding an organization's strengths, and bringing an agency mindset in-house. It emphasizes that there is no single solution and the best approach depends on an organization's unique characteristics.
Odile is an organisation designer working with Intersection Railways to help redesign their organisation. In the first chapter, she assesses the current organisation and finds a fragmented design community and lack of collaboration. In chapter 2, she works to unite disciplines and develop a governance framework to oversee design. Chapter 3 describes her presentation of findings to executives and gaining support. Chapter 4 discusses planning the detailed design. Finally, in chapter 5 Odile reflects on progress made in establishing an integrated co-design process and new role at Intersection Railways.
This document is a research paper written by Tom Thomson Jones for Regent's University in November 2014 examining how design management theory influenced the recovery of the LEGO Group through realigning its design process. It contains 15,795 words, including an abstract, literature review on design and its management, the design process, the fall of the LEGO Group, methodology, findings, conclusions and recommendations. The paper aims to identify weaknesses in LEGO's original design process, analyze the key components of its realignment initiative, review if it achieved an optimal design-business balance, and utilize financial data to quantify the initiative's effectiveness.
The Open Group Conference to Emphasize Healthcare as Key Sector for Ecosystem...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how the healthcare industry is poised to take advantage of enterprise architecture to bring benefits to patients, doctors, and allied health professionals.
Building digital product masters to prevail in the age of accelerations parts...Jeffrey Stewart
This document discusses the importance of building Digital Product Masters (DPMs) to help organizations adapt and succeed in today's rapidly changing environment. It argues that DPMs can help mitigate risks, reduce costs, and improve revenue. The document is presented in three parts:
Part 1 discusses how the world is accelerating and the new risks organizations face. It suggests that DPMs can help lower costs, mitigate risks, and create stronger customer lock-ins.
Part 2 explains what a DPM is and how it models activities, tools, flows, teams, capabilities, processes, technology, and people. It shows how a DPM can help align these different elements.
Part 3 will provide a case study
DesignOps aims to increase efficiencies and impact across organizations. To measure this, KPIs that evaluate performance against strategic goals are used. However, defining the right KPIs is complex as value is contextual and relational. A systemic, hypothesis-driven approach is needed to understand how improving one area, like designer time, can impact other parts of the system by creating a ripple of efficiencies. For example, reducing recruiting time for user tests could increase designer quality and speed of delivery, benefiting both design teams and businesses. The key is focusing KPIs on the biggest pains to trigger broader impacts, not isolating parts which overlooks relationships between elements.
Are looking for a trusted Technologist to help you grow your business? Someone who is entrepreneurial mindset with particle business experience, then view this presentation.
Practical co design guidance-workshop lessonsMark Hicks
This document discusses co-design and Vodafone's experience with it. They partnered with progressive collaborators to co-design a suite of "Micro-futures" services. They found that co-design has potential to deliver value and innovation if organized properly. Key lessons included using small teams, self-organization, clear objectives, constraints and guidance. There are different models for organizing co-design based on openness and ownership, including a club of experts, crowd model, coalition of parties, and community of kindred spirits.
Presentation held on 26.09.2019 at the "Digital Workplace and Employee Experience Summit" in Berlin (Germany)
HUMANIZING THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE: REINFORCING CULTURE, TAPPING INTO THE POWER OF EMPLOYEES & ENCOURAGING CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT
Steljes Productive Video & Data ConferencingGordon Rimmer
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
Efficient Teams Do Not Happen. They are Designed. It's called DesignOpsUXDXConf
There's an art behind happy and efficient teams and it's called DesignOps. Several studies demonstrate that designers spend up to 60% of their time doing non-design work.
But do you know where your team is spending their time instead of working on doing great design? Have you ever thought to measure your teams' inefficiencies?
DesignOps is the facilitating function that supports design teams to scale by improving ways of working, x-functional collaboration and processes so that designers can focus 100% on doing design.
This talk, based on first-hand experiences and learnings, will focus on key best practices to help position DesignOps at the right altitude, identify the right allies, and assess design teams’ performance and opportunities.
Tree Frog International is a digital marketing agency that helps clients achieve business goals through creative communication and effective marketing strategies. They take a collaborative approach to developing ideas and focus on practical execution. Their services include digital strategy planning, website design, social media strategy, and mobile app development. They aim to understand clients' audiences and help clients engage with them through the appropriate digital channels.
Why Should You Be Thinking About DesignOps?Eficode
This document summarizes key points from a presentation on DesignOps. It discusses how DesignOps can help unify tools, improve collaboration and communication, and enable design teams to scale more efficiently. Some key stats highlighted include the growing ratio of designers to developers at companies, and the annual costs of disorganization for design teams as they grow. DesignOps is presented as a way to modernize design workflows by making them more centralized, collaborative, transparent and simple.
Eight&four is a digital marketing agency founded in 2008 that is based in London. It provides services such as website development, SEO/PPC, social media, and email marketing. The agency has grown to 8 employees and works with clients across various sectors. Three case studies are described that showcase projects for Alzheimer's Society, WomanCare Global, and The Lord's Taverners. The projects involved developing websites and digital marketing strategies to meet specified goals, which resulted in increased engagement and sales.
Eight&four is a digital marketing agency founded in November 2008 and based in London. They specialize in web design, development, search engine marketing, email marketing, and social media strategy. The agency has grown to 8 employees and has an award-winning portfolio serving clients across various industries. Their services include website development, SEO/PPC, mobile development, email marketing, and social media.
This document discusses how professional organizations can learn from creative disciplines like art. It describes a project at SAP to create a simplified partner web experience using practices from design thinking. The cross-functional team overcame obstacles through unwavering persistence, design thinking, and collaboration. They conducted user research with over 40 partners to develop requirements and test prototypes. While facing setbacks, the team persevered and completed the project successfully. The document argues that skills like creativity, collaboration, and adaptability seen in art are important for knowledge workers and organizations in the digital age.
It’s more than designing shmick features to achieve kaching! - UX Australia 2020Catherine Hills
Both users and designers are similar in their views of some factors of e-commerce website UX design, but as would be expected, there are also differences arising from respective mental models and views. Specifically, those differences include users’ concerns regarding the security of purchasing and visual presentation of information and graphics. For designers, my research suggests they might heavily focus on information hierarchy and not surprising branding. These issues will be discussed in this talk by Catherine in relation to new contributions to theory and practice, extending from the literature and offering new recommendations to UX designers in the design of e-commerce user experience.
Presented at UX Australia 2020
http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conferences/ux-australia-2020/presentation/its-more-than-designing-shmick-features-to-achieve-kaching/
Bridgeable: Celebrating 10 years of Insight and ImpactBridgeable
Over the last 10 years, we've introduced the use of service design methods and tools to a variety of not-for-profit and caused-based organizations. This is a compilation of those case studies.
Social Business Centers Of Excellence: FoundationsLeader Networks
The document discusses how organizations are establishing Social Business Centers of Excellence (COEs) to better coordinate their social media strategies and initiatives across business units. It provides examples of how COEs at large companies like Shell function. COEs establish shared goals and standards to avoid duplicated efforts. They also develop tools and best practices that can be used across business units while allowing for customization. Establishing COEs helps companies leverage social media at scale through a unified vision and collaborative approach rather than competing initiatives within silos.
This document contains a mix of technical formulas, text, and figures with no clear overall topic. The text sections discuss building successful digital product teams and improving an organization's digital capabilities. It notes that clients increasingly ask agencies to help upskill their digital teams. The document provides perspectives on developing digital products, including choosing the right agency partner, understanding an organization's strengths, and bringing an agency mindset in-house. It emphasizes that there is no single solution and the best approach depends on an organization's unique characteristics.
Odile is an organisation designer working with Intersection Railways to help redesign their organisation. In the first chapter, she assesses the current organisation and finds a fragmented design community and lack of collaboration. In chapter 2, she works to unite disciplines and develop a governance framework to oversee design. Chapter 3 describes her presentation of findings to executives and gaining support. Chapter 4 discusses planning the detailed design. Finally, in chapter 5 Odile reflects on progress made in establishing an integrated co-design process and new role at Intersection Railways.
This document is a research paper written by Tom Thomson Jones for Regent's University in November 2014 examining how design management theory influenced the recovery of the LEGO Group through realigning its design process. It contains 15,795 words, including an abstract, literature review on design and its management, the design process, the fall of the LEGO Group, methodology, findings, conclusions and recommendations. The paper aims to identify weaknesses in LEGO's original design process, analyze the key components of its realignment initiative, review if it achieved an optimal design-business balance, and utilize financial data to quantify the initiative's effectiveness.
The Open Group Conference to Emphasize Healthcare as Key Sector for Ecosystem...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how the healthcare industry is poised to take advantage of enterprise architecture to bring benefits to patients, doctors, and allied health professionals.
Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest at his home in 2009. His personal physician administered CPR but Jackson was pronounced dead at the hospital. The coroner determined Jackson's death was a homicide caused by drugs in his system. Jackson's memorial was held at Staples Center where he had been rehearsing. His burial was delayed multiple times and finally held on September 3, 2009 at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Combining Big Data and Cloud Capabilities for ECommerce Matches Buyers and Se...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect on how a mid-market company saw immediate results from participation in Ariba Discovery, eliminating the need for mailing half a million catalogs a year.
As Indiana Health Care Provider Goes Fully Virtualized, it Gains Head Start o...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC went from a 100 percent physical to 100 percent virtual infrastructure.
Cybersecurity is a Necessity, Not an Option, in the Face of Global Security T...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingDirect podcast on the growing need for cybersecurity as an important organizational goal for businesses and government agencies.
Service Virtualization Brings Speed Benefit and Lower Costs to TTNET Applicat...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Türk Telekom subsidiary TTNET has leveraged Service Virtualization to significantly improve productivity.
Thought Leader Interview: HP's Global CISO Brett Wahlin on the Future of Secu...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how increased and more sophisticated attacks are forcing enterprises to innovate and expand security practices to not only detect, but predict, system intrusions.
Lancashire libraries have teamed up with UK Online Centres and Google to support small businesses, charities and
start-ups in Lancashire make the most of being online. Google Digital Garage consists of a series of free tutorials on everything from your website to online marketing and beyond. You can create a personal profile of your needs and choose the topics you want to learn. We are happy to offer introductory training and support.
Growing BYOD Trend Brings New Security Challenges for IT in Allowing Greater ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Dell Software is helping to bring standardized and flexible approaches to making BYOD a positive new force to enterprise productivity.
Platform 3.0 Ripe to Give Standard Access to Advanced Intelligence and Automa...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how The Open Group is working to stay ahead of challenges organization face with an increase in data volume and sources.
El resumen describe una reunión entre representantes del Comité de Equidad de Género y representantes del Cuerpo de Guardaparques Nacionales. Se discutieron temas como la historia del Cuerpo, la situación laboral actual, y la meta de lograr la equidad de género en el nuevo convenio colectivo. El Comité hizo recomendaciones sobre cómo enfocar las propuestas para considerar las necesidades de ambos géneros y promover la igualdad. También se analizaron posibles cláusulas relacionadas a la familia y género y se
Este documento describe los diferentes tipos de periféricos de una computadora, incluyendo periféricos de entrada como ratones y pantallas táctiles, periféricos de salida como pantallas y impresoras, periféricos de entrada y salida como unidades USB, y periféricos de almacenamiento como discos duros y unidades flash. Explica brevemente las funciones de cada tipo de periférico y algunos ejemplos comunes.
Este capítulo explora las razones por las cuales los miembros de una sociedad suelen obedecer a un líder, a pesar de ser muchos individuos. Explica que históricamente los líderes han obtenido su posición debido a factores como la fuerza, habilidades superiores, sabiduría, experiencia o herencia. Sin embargo, con el tiempo las necesidades sociales cambiaron y ahora un buen líder se caracteriza por su capacidad de mantener el equilibrio y orden en la sociedad.
La distribución en planta se refiere a la disposición de máquinas, departamentos, estaciones de trabajo, áreas de almacenamiento, pasillos y espacios comunes dentro de una instalación de producción para asegurar la fluidez del flujo de trabajo, materiales, personas e información a través del sistema. El documento proporciona enlaces a videos y sitios web que explican más sobre los conceptos y tipos básicos de distribución en planta, así como una presentación en PowerPoint sobre el tema.
Construccin de equipos_de_trabajo_eficaces_para_un_mejor_funcionamiento4Néstor Sarmiento
1) El documento habla sobre la construcción de equipos de trabajo efectivos y la importancia de estos para el buen funcionamiento de una empresa. 2) Describe tres escenas de competencias entre equipos japoneses y colombianos donde los equipos colombianos tienen demasiados jefes y poca gente haciendo el trabajo real. 3) Concluye que para tener éxito se necesitan equipos con roles bien definidos y donde todos aportan al objetivo común en lugar de tener demasiada burocracia.
Este documento resume la historia de innovación de Ultramar Agencia desde 1952 hasta la actualidad. Comenzó con la creación de subsidiarias en diferentes países de América Latina para expandir sus operaciones portuarias y logísticas. Más recientemente, Ultramar estableció un equipo dedicado a fomentar la innovación interna a través de nuevos proyectos. De nueve proyectos iniciales, tres tuvieron éxito porque respondieron a necesidades del mercado de forma diferenciada. Ultramar continúa trabajando para institucionalizar procesos
O documento apresenta o Código de Ética Profissional do Técnico de Segurança do Trabalho, definindo seus deveres e proibições, como zelar pela segurança no trabalho, não facilitar o exercício da profissão para não habilitados e manter sigilo profissional. Também estabelece normas para publicações, perícias, honorários, conduta com colegas e atribuições privadas.
Este documento proporciona información sobre fisioterapia, incluyendo definiciones de términos como movimiento, posición anatómica y planos. También describe los ejes y tipos de movimientos del cuerpo humano, así como conceptos clave como articulaciones, músculos y calidad de movimiento. Finalmente, clasifica las articulaciones y proporciona ejemplos de cada tipo.
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How The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Portfolio Approach Enables the Agi...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on leveraging a comprehensive standards resources approach for transforming businesses in a new era of agility and competitiveness.
Enterprise Architecture Faces Vast Promise -- or Lost OpportunityDana Gardner
This document summarizes a podcast discussion on the potential and challenges of enterprise architecture. The panel discusses how enterprise architecture can help organizations adapt to changing digital needs, but it faces an adoption challenge as it lacks established professional standards. Architects must focus on delivering near-term business value while establishing long-term strategic plans. Leadership skills are also important for architects to drive organizational change without direct authority. Overall, the discussion examines how enterprise architecture can create opportunities for businesses through improved IT and business alignment, but realizing this potential remains an ongoing challenge.
DevOps by Design -- Practical Guide to Effectively Ushering DevOps into Any O...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on some powerful best practices on making DevOps an accelerant to broader business goals, but at the level of a multigenerational IT activity.
How the ArchiMate Modeling Standard Helps Enterprise Architects Deliver Grea...Dana Gardner
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A Tale of Two IT Departments, or How Governance is Essential in the Hybrid Cl...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on how two organizations have been improving their application’s performance via total performance monitoring and metrics.
HP's ALM11 Brings Together Larger Initiatives That Are Transforming the IndustryDana Gardner
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How HPE ‘Moments’ Provide A Proven Critical Approach To Digital Business Tra...Dana Gardner
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The Long Road of IT Systems Management Enters the Domain of AIOps-Fueled Auto...Dana Gardner
This document provides a summary of a podcast discussion between Dana Gardner and Doug de Werd about the evolution of IT management. Some key points:
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- HPE OneView provides a core infrastructure management solution that is extending its capabilities through partnerships to integrate with DevOps tools and cloud platforms.
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How the Role of Certification Impacts Professionalization of IT and Skills Ma...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast from The Open Group Conference in Austin on how certification programs are aiding IT professionals as well as companies.
Survey Says: Investing in IT Distinguishes Industry Leaders from Industry Lag...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast on the results of a survey that shows that innovation focusing on information and KPIs drives substantial positive business results.
BriefingsDirect : Psychology of project management and SOA governanceMichael Krigsman
Looking at SOA governance, project management, and business transformation through the lens of culture change.
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The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
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High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
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"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
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AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
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From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
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Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
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The Open Group Panel Explains How the ArchiMate Modeling Language and The Open Group Architecture Forum Impacts Such Trends as Big Data and Cloud
1. The Open Group Panel Explains How the ArchiMate
Modeling Language and The Open Group Architecture
Forum Impacts Such Trends as Big Data and Cloud
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on the role of enterprise architecture in helping
enterprises exploit and manage technology transformation.
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Sponsor: The Open Group
Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to a special BriefingsDirect thought leadership interview
series coming to you in conjunction with The Open Group Conference recently
held in Newport Beach, California.
I'm Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and I'll be your host
and moderator throughout these business transformation discussions. The
conference itself is focusing on big data the transformation we need to embrace
today. [Disclosure: The Open Group is a sponsor of this and other BriefingsDirect
podcasts.]
We're here now with a panel of experts to explore new trends and developments in enterprise
architecture (EA), as businesses grapple with such issues as big data, cloud computing, security,
and overall IT transformation.
We'll learn more on how EA is evolving and specifically how the TOGAF® framework and the
ArchiMate® modeling language are playing increased roles worldwide.
With that, please join me in welcoming our panel. We're here with
Chris Forde, the General Manager Asia-Pacific and Vice President of
Enterprise Architecture at The Open Group. Welcome, Chris.
Chris Forde: Good morning, Dana, thank you.
Gardner: We're also here with Iver Band. He is Vice Chair of The Open Group ArchiMate
Forum and Enterprise Architect at The Standard, a diversified financial services company.
Welcome.
Iver Band: Thank you very much for having me.
Gardner: Mike Walker, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Dell. Welcome Mike.
Mike Walker: Thank you, Dana.
2. Gardner: Henry Franken, the Chairman of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum and Managing
Director at BIZZdesign.
Henry Franken: Thanks Dana for having me here.
Gardner: And lastly, we're joined by Dave Hornford. He is Chair of the Architecture Forum at
The Open Group and Managing Partner at Conexiam. Welcome, Dave.
Dave Hornford: Good to be here.
Gardner: Chris, let's start with you. Here at the conference you're meeting with a lot of folks,
and there is a lot of activity in socializing and whatnot. Is there something about the role of the
enterprise architect that you sense is shifting, or are people, maybe even trying to project their
roles differently in their organizations?
Consistent theme
Forde: At these conferences, generally there is a fairly consistent theme. It goes from "We're
having difficulty defining our role in the context that makes it relevant and useful
to the business" to "We're having a great opportunity with our business partners to
drive business transformation." It really goes across the spectrum.
What I'm hearing in the conference, not just based on the themes, is a lot of
discussion about that transformation topic and the role of the enterprise architect
in moving the organization along. That's a very, very typical conversation to hear
in the hallways.
Gardner: When it's a dynamic environment, lots of change, lots of movement, the enterprise
architects' value can go up. If things were slow, constant and predictable, perhaps their value
wouldn't be as high. Any thoughts about that?
Franken: Well sure. What you see is that the challenge within large organizations on business
transformation is increasing and the number of good enterprise architects is small, so their value
increases. It's simple mathematics.
Gardner: Mike Walker at Dell, how do you see EA and the role of the architect changing, vis-à-
vis your experiences?
Walker: I’ll provide the perspective of the an EA leader and practitioner in the trenches of not
only my company but also talking with colleagues in other companies as well. I see a lot of what
was referred to from Henry and Chris. To add to that, there is more and more focus on
reinvigorating the EA practices. There is less of a focus on the traditional things we come to
think of EA such as standards, governance and policies, but rather into emerging areas such as
the soft skills, business architecture, and strategy.
3. To this end I see a lot in the realm of working directly with the executive chain to understand the
key value drivers for the company and rationalize where they want to go with their
business. So we're moving into a business-transformation role in this practice.
At the same time, we've got to be mindful of the disruptive external technology
forces coming in as well. EA can’t just divorce from the other aspects of
architecture as well. So the role that enterprise architects play becomes more and
more important and elevated in the organization.
Two examples of this disruptive technology that are being focused on at the conference are big
data and cloud computing. Both are providing impacts to our businesses not because of some
new business idea but because technology is available to enhance or provide new capabilities to
our business. The EA’s still do have to understand these new technology innovations and
determine how they will apply to the business.
To Henry's point around the need to get really good enterprise architects, it’s difficult to find
good ones. There is a shortage right now especially given that a lot of focus is being put on the
EA department to really deliver sound architectures.
Not standalone
Gardner: We've been talking a lot here about big data, but usually that's not just a standalone
topic. It's big data and cloud, cloud and mobile, and also cloud, big data, mobile, and security.
So with these overlapping and complex relationships among multiple trends, why is EA and
things like the TOGAF framework and the ArchiMate modeling language especially useful. Let's
try with you, Iver.
Band: One of the things that has been clear for a while now is that people outside of IT don't
necessarily have to go through the technology function to avail themselves of
these technologies any more. Whether they ever had to is really a question as
well.
One of things that EA is doing, and especially in the practice that I work in, is
using approaches like the ArchiMate modeling language to effect clear
communication between the business, IT, partners and other stakeholders. That's
what I do in my daily work, overseeing our major systems modernization efforts.
I work with major partners, some of which are offshore.
I'm increasingly called upon to make sure that we have clear processes for making decisions and
clear ways of visualizing the different choices in front of us. We can't always unilaterally dictate
the choice, but we can make the conversation clearer by using frameworks like the TOGAF
standard and the ArchiMate modeling language, which I use virtually every day in my work.
4. Gardner: And so the more moving parts and the more complexity, the less likely that you can
wing this or use traditional linear tools. You need something that's a bit more up to the task.
Dave, help us understand how these tools can grapple better with these multiple levels of
complexity and then also bridge some of these communication gaps among different
constituencies in these large organizations?
Hornford: The fundamental benefit of the tools is the organization realizing its capability and
strategy. I just came from a session where a fellow quoted a Harvard study,
which said that around a third of executives thought their company was good at
executing on its strategy. He highlighted that this means that two-thirds are not
good at executing on their strategy.
If you're not good at executing on your strategy and you've got big data,
mobile, consumerization of IT and cloud, where are you going? What's the
correct approach? How does this fit into what you were trying to accomplish as
an enterprise?
An enterprise architect that is doing their job is bringing together the strategy, goals and
objectives of the organization. Also, its capabilities with the techniques that are available,
whether it's offshoring, onshoring, cloud, or big data, so that the organization is able to move
forward to where it needs to be, as opposed to where it's going to randomly walk to.
Gardner: Chris, anything to add?
Forde: One of the things that has come out in several of the presentations is this kind of
capability-based planning, a technique in EA to get their arms around this thing from a business-
driver perspective. Just to polish what Dave said a little bit, it's connecting all of those things. We
see enterprises talking about a capability-based view of things on that basis.
Gardner: Because we're here with a couple of the chairpeople from these forums, where a lot of
the development and direction for these tools comes about, let's get a quick update. The TOGAF
framework, where are we and what have been the highlights from this particular event. Dave?
Minor upgrade
Hornford: In the last year, we've published a minor upgrade for TOGAF version 9.1 which
was based upon cleaning up consistency in the language in the TOGAF documentation. What
we're working on right now is a significant new release, the next release of the TOGAF standard,
which is dividing the TOGAF documentation to make it more consumable, more consistent and
more useful for someone.
5. Today, the TOGAF standard has guidance on how to do something mixed into the framework of
what you should be doing. We're peeling those apart. So with that peeled apart, we won't have
guidance that is tied to classic application architecture in a world of cloud.
What we find when we have done work with the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN)
for banking architecture, Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA) for
security architecture, and the TeleManagement Forum, is that the concepts in the TOGAF
framework work across industries and across trends. We need to move the guidance into a place
so that we can be far nimbler on how to tie cloud with my current strategy, how to tie
consumerization of IT with on-shoring?
Franken: The ArchiMate modeling language turned two last year, and the ArchiMate 1.0
standard is the language to model out the core of your EA. The ArchiMate 2.0 standard added
two specifics to it to make it better aligned also to the process of EA. According
to the TOGAF standard, this is being able to model out the motivation, why
you're doing EA, stakeholders and the goals that drive us. The second extension
to the ArchiMate standard is being able to model out its planning and migration.
So with the core EA and these two extensions, together with the TOGAF standard
process working, you have a good basis on getting EA to work in your
organization.
Gardner: Let’s also go back to the big data concepts that are driving this conference. I've been
interested in this notion of the information architecture, data architecture and how that relates to
the TOGAF framework. Mike, you've been doing some interesting writing on this subject. Fill us
in on some of your thoughts about the role of information architecture vis-à-vis the larger
business architect and enterprise architect roles.
Walker: Information architecture is an interesting topic in that it hasn’t been getting a whole lot
of attention until recently.
Information architecture is an aspect of enterprise architecture that enables an information
strategy or business solution through the definition of the company's business information assets,
their sources, structure, classification and associations that will prescribe the required application
architecture and technical capabilities.
Information architecture is the bridge between the business architecture world and the
application and technology architecture activities.
The reason I say that is because information architecture is a business-driven discipline that
details the information strategy of the company. As we know, and from what we’ve heard at the
conference keynotes like in the case of NASA, big data, and security presentations, the
preservation and classification of that information is vital to understanding what your
architecture should be.
6. Least matured
From an industry perspective, this is one of the least matured, as far as being incorporated into
a formal discipline. The TOGAF standard actually has a phase dedicated to it in data
architecture. Again, there are still lots of opportunities to grow and incorporate additional
methods, models and tools by the enterprise information management discipline.
Enterprise information management not only it captures traditional topic areas like master data
management (MDM), metadata and unstructured types of information architecture but also
focusing on the information governance, and the architecture patterns and styles implemented in
MDM, big data, etc. There is a great deal of opportunity there.
From the role of information architects, I’m seeing more and more traction in the industry as a
whole. I've dealt with an entire group that’s focused on information architecture and building up
an enterprise information management practice, so that we can take our top line business
strategies and understand what architectures we need to put there.
This is a critical enabler for global companies, because oftentimes they're restricted by
regulation, typically handled at a government or regional area. This means we have to understand
that we build our architecture. So it's not about the application, but rather the data that it
processes, moves, or transforms.
Gardner: Up until not too long ago, the conventional thinking was that applications generate
data. Then you treat the data in some way so that it can be used, perhaps by other applications,
but that the data was secondary to the application.
But there's some shift in that thinking now more toward the idea that the data is the application
and that new applications are designed to actually expand on the data’s value and deliver it out to
mobile tiers perhaps. Does that follow in your thinking that the data is actually more prominent
as a resource perhaps on par with applications?
Walker: You're spot on, Dana. Before the commoditization of these technologies that resided on
premises, we could get away with starting at the application layer and work our way back
because we had access to the source code or hardware behind our firewalls. We could throw
servers out, and we used to put the firewalls in front of the data to solve the problem with
infrastructure. So we didn’t have to treat information as a first-class citizen. Times have changed,
though.
Information access and processing is now democratized and it’s being pushed as the first point of
presentment. A lot of times this is on a mobile device and even then it’s not the corporate’s
mobile device, but your personal device. So how do you handle that data?
It's the same way with cloud, and I’ll give you a great example of this. I was working as an
adviser for a company, and they were looking at their cloud strategy. They had made a big bet on
7. one of the big infrastructures and cloud-service providers. They looked first at what the features
and functions that that cloud provider could provide, and not necessarily the information
requirements. There were two major issues that they ran into, and that was essentially a
showstopper. They had to pull off that infrastructure.
The first one was that in that specific cloud provider’s terms of service around intellectual
property (IP) ownership. Essentially, that company was forced to cut off their IP rights.
Big business
As you know, IP is a big business these days, and so that was a showstopper. It actually broke
the core regulatory laws around being able to discover information.
So focusing on the applications to make sure it meets your functional needs is important.
However, we should take a step back and look at the information first and make sure that for the
people in your organization who can’t say no, their requirements are satisfied.
Gardner: Data architecture is it different from EA and business architecture, or is it a subset?
What’s the relationship, Dave?
Hornford: Data architecture is part of an EA. I won’t use the word subset, because a subset
starts to imply that it is a distinct thing that you can look at on its own. You cannot look at your
business architecture without understanding your information architecture. When you think about
big data, cool. We've got this pile of data in the corner. Where did it come from? Can we use it?
Do we actually have legitimate rights, as Mike highlighted, to use this information? Are we
allowed to mix it and who mixes it?
When we look at how our business is optimized, they normally optimize around work product,
what the organization is delivering. That’s very easy. You can see who consumes your work
product. With information, you often have no idea who consumes your information. So now we
have provenance, we have source and as we move for global companies, we have the trends
around consumerization, cloud and simply tightening cycle time.
There was a very interesting thing that came out of a PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO summary,
which said there has historically been cycles where the CEOs were focusing on innovation or
cost. What they have observed over the last few surveys is much tightening of those cycles. We
used to be a bit worried about cost for a few years. Then, we would worry about innovation for a
few years. Now, it’s worrying about it for a year. What came out in the last survey? Both are
rated number one.
How do we in global, tightly connected, information-rich environment manage? Do we have
access to the information? Our competitors may, our customers do and our suppliers probably do.
How do we fit into that? If we look at data in isolation, I have to understand how the system
works and how the enterprise’s architecture fits together.
8. Gardner: Of course, the end game for a lot of the practitioners here is to create that feedback
loop of a lifecycle approach, rapid information injection and rapid analysis that could be applied.
So what are some of the ways that these disciplines and tools can help foster that complete
lifecycle? Let’s go to Iver.
Band: The disciplines and tools can facilitate the right conversations among different
stakeholders. One of the things that we're doing at The Standard is building cadres equally
balanced between people in business and IT.
We're training them in information management, going through a particular curriculum, and
having them study for an information management certification that introduces a lot of these
different frameworks and standard concepts.
Creating cadres
We want to create these cadres to be able to solve tough and persistent information
management problems that affect all companies in financial services, because information is a
shared asset. The purpose of the frameworks is to ensure proper stewardship of that asset across
disciplines and across organizations within an enterprise.
Gardner: If they add to the fostering of that nirvana of a full lifecycle that it cuts across different
disciplines in the organization.
Hornford: The core is from the two standards that we have, The ArchiMate standard and the
TOGAF standard. The TOGAF standard has, from its early roots, focused on the components of
EA and how to build a consistent method of understanding of what I'm trying to accomplish,
understanding where I am, and where I need to be to reach my goal.
When we bring in the ArchiMate standard, I have a language, a descriptor, a visual descriptor
that allows me to cross all of those domains in a consistent description, so that I can do that
traceability. When I pull in this lever or I have this regulatory impact, what does it hit me with, or
if I have this constraint, what does it hit me with?
If I don’t do this, if I don’t use the framework of the TOGAF standard, or I don’t use the
discipline of formal modeling in the ArchiMate standard, we're going to do it anecdotally. We're
going to trip. We're going to fall. We're going to have a non-ending series of surprises, as Mike
highlighted.
"Oh, terms of service. I am violating the regulations. Beautiful. Let’s take that to our executive
and tell him right as we are about to go live that we have to stop, because we can't get where we
want to go, because we didn't think about what it took to get there." And that’s the core of EA in
the frameworks.
9. Walker: To build on what Dave has just talked about and going back to your first question Dana,
the value statement on TOGAF from a business perspective. I think businesses value of TOGAF
is that they get a repeatable and a predictable process for building out our architectures that
properly manage risks and reliably produces value.
The TOGAF framework provides a methodology to ask what problems you're trying to solve and
where you are trying to go with your business opportunities or challenges. That leads to business
architecture, which is really a rationalization in technical or architectural terms the distillation of
the corporate strategy.
From there, what you want to understand is information -- how does that translate, what
information architecture do we need to put in place? You get into all sorts of things around risk
management, etc., and then it goes on from there, until what we were talking about earlier about
information architecture.
If the TOGAF standard is applied properly you can achieve the same result every time, That is
what interests business stakeholders in my opinion. And the ArchiMate modeling language is
great because, as we talked about, it provides very rich visualizations so that people cannot only
show a picture, but tie information together. Different from other aspects of architecture,
information architecture is less about the boxes and more about the lines.
Gardner: All right, thank you Mike. Chris, anything to add?
Quality of the individuals
Forde: Building on what Dave was saying earlier and also what Iver was saying is that while
the process and the methodology and the tools are of interest, it’s the discipline and the quality of
the individuals doing the work.
Iver talked about how the conversation is shifting and the practice is improving to build
communications groups that have a discipline to operate around. What I am hearing is implied,
but actually I know what specifically occurs, is that we end up with assets that are well described
and reusable.
And there is a point at which you reach a critical mass that these assets become an accelerator for
decision making. So the ability of the enterprise and the decision makers in the enterprise at the
right level to respond is improved, because they have a well disciplined foundation beneath
them.
A set of assets that are reasonably well-known at the right level of granularity for them to absorb
the information and the conversation is being structured so that the technical people and the
business people are in the right room together to talk about the problems.
10. This is actually a fairly sophisticated set of operations that I am discussing and doesn't happen
overnight, but is definitely one of the things that we see occurring with our members in certain
cases.
Hornford: I want to build on that what Chris said. It’s actually the word "asset." While he was
talking, I was thinking about how people have talked about information as an asset. Most of us
don’t know what information we have, how it’s collected, where it is, but we know we have got a
valuable asset.
I'll use an analogy. I have a factory some place in the world that makes stuff. Is that an asset? If I
know that my factory is able to produce a particular set of goods and it’s hooked into my supply
chain here, I've got an asset. Before that, I just owned a thing.
I was very encouraged listening to what Iver talked about. We're building cadres. We're building
out this approach and I have seen this. I'm not using that word, but now I'm stealing that word.
It's how people build effective teams, which is not to take a couple of specialists and put them in
an ivory tower, but it’s to provide the method and the discipline of how we converse about it, so
that we can have a consistent conversation.
When I tie it with some of the tools from the Architecture Forum and the ArchiMate Forum, I'm
able to consistently describe it, so that I now have an asset I can identify, consume and produce
value from.
Business context
Forde: And this is very different from data modeling. We are not talking about entity
relationship, junk at the technical detail, or third normal form and that kind of stuff. We're talking
about a conversation that’s occurring around the business context of what needs to go on
supported by the right level of technical detail when you need to go there in order to clarify.
Gardner: Thank you Chris. I believe we'll have to leave it there. We're about out of time. We've
been talking about the enterprise architect’s role, how it's evolving, and how TOGAF and
ArchiMate are playing increased roles worldwide.
We've seen how EA is being creatively employed as businesses grapple with such issues as cloud
computing, security, big data, and overall IT transformation.
This special BriefingsDirect discussion comes to you in conjunction with The Open Group
Conference in Newport Beach, California.
I want to extend a big thank you to our panel. We've been joined by Chris Forde, the General
Manager Asia-Pacific and Vice President of Enterprise Architecture at The Open Group; Iver
Band, Vice Chair of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum and Enterprise Architect at The
Standard; Mike Walker, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Dell.
11. And Henry Franken, Chairman of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum and Managing Director at
BIZZdesign. Also lastly Dave Hornford, Chair of the Architecture Forum at The Open Group and
a Managing Partner at Conexiam. Thanks to you all.
This is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host and moderator through
these thought leadership interviews. Thanks again for listening, and come back next time.
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