Enterprise Mobile Strategies and Solutions

In post PC era, we live in a world with great mobility facilitated by smart phones, tablets, laptop, etc. with wireless connections. We are living in a big Cyber Human Social System now, thanks to Internet. The impacts from this ecosystem to our lives are tremendous, across both of our work life and personal life; actually the line is merging between the two.

Some of my thoughts regarding to enterprise mobile strategies and solutions are summarized as the following:

Enterprise Architecture for the United State of America

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an enterprise blueprint with descriptions of enterprise vision, structure, and operation models.

To have a long-term plan, a blueprint, and a roadmap for a country is as important as we need one for an enterprise. A country is like an enterprise entity in a bigger scale, which also needs a common vision, cohesive top-down guidance, and effective governance structure and process to make sure the vision, goals, and objectives can be achieved and the execution is heading to the right direction. Therefore, a country also needs an “EA”. This could be an ingredient of socialism, if yes be it. As I discussed in a previous blog article “The Road of Moderation”, the correct choice is usually in the middle between extremes. For a social system, it should be between extreme capitalism and extreme socialism. The most effective and efficient way is likely the convergence from the two. This is about the balance of the top-down guidance, planning, governance, and coordination with the freedom of organic growth from bottom-up.  We can see that USA and China are converging from different directions to an optimized model that suites each. I’m looking forward to the development, and maintain optimistic for the motion. 

Cloud Computing Model and SOA

Recently, someone asked me that “where is cloud computing not SOA?”. It surprised me first, and then I realized people may have different ideas about what is SOA.

Most people may tend to attach SOA to Enterprise Service Broker (ESB) associated solutions, or the technical mechanisms associated with following definition, with or without ESB, which is

Big Data, Knowledge Management, and Enterprise Architecture

Internet provides us explosive information these days and still growing. Internet helps us collect and distribute information conveniently and still getting better. However, information has to be organized and be comprehended to become knowledge. In addition to the usual information that enterprise has internally, such as the information in the enterprise content management systems, databases and data warehouse, enterprise architecture, etc., public Internet content also provide information sources for knowledge extraction serving the enterprise, such as wikipedia, blogs, social network, social media, etc. We need a cohesive approach for knowledge management, to support both decision making and innovation inspiration.

My Summer Trip to China

Just came back from another China trip. Although the sign of ecomonic slow down dose show in many areas, the modern new infrastructure construction continues. The advancement of new technologies, especially in multi-media telecommunication sector impressed me as well. The efforts for Smart City development is underway.

Here are a few pictures from my trip: