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John Patchett
John Patchett is a certified Enterprise Architect at Groundswell. He has extensive experience in Oil & Gas, Government, Insurance, Transportation and Media industries. With over 25 years experience in planning, developing, and implementing information technology solutions to address business needs, John has developed some unique insights into corporate challenges.
How to create an effective architecture team
by John Patchett
June 24th, 2014
Deliver business capabilities or suffer irrelevance Top companies are investing in Enterprise Architecture practices. Not surprisingly, Enterprise Architecture groups are failing at staggering rates. Born from the need to apply architecture principles across organizational divisions and enable business capabilities, Enterprise Architecture is simultaneously game changing and completely...
Continue ReadingIT departments - does the future need us?
by John Patchett
June 17th, 2014
The Consumer-ization of technology What do you think is driving the greatest technological revolution to rock the very foundation of corporate IT (Information Technology) departments? Take a moment; think about it, I’ll wait….. Alright, time’s up. Did you guess some technology that Gartner or...
Continue ReadingeDiscovery costs HOW MUCH!?
by John Patchett
June 10th, 2014
It’s time to take out the digital trash Recently I’d been engaged by a major energy company to try and understand why their latest legal hold was costing the IT department so much money and resources, and to provide suggestions on reducing costs and operational...
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