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The other night I was chatting with a friend about the archetype of business-focused technology innovator – creative, business-smart, technology-savvy, dot-connector, influencer, and transformation leader.  You know, the type of person every organization needs, but doesn’t always know how to find one, or (worse) what to do with. 

Anyway, during our conversation, we were chatting about this archetype versus org chart positions or hiring reqs.  Depending on the organization, a person of this ilk might be found in (or qualified for) one of several slots, from CIO to senior technician.

So, I’m curious, in respect to enterprise or government IT, what role in your organization is the primary source of business-focused technology innovation?  Please note your response on the following poll.  Thanks!

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Next week, I'll be giving a talk at the Enterprise Architecture Conference entitled "SOA or Business Architecture: Who's on First".  In other words, the title I originally submitted got "punched up" by the conference promoter.  Not surprising, I lack the flagrant self promotion gene.

Anyway, during my session I'll be talking about Business, Service-Orientation, Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architects.  With luck, at the end folks should be able to answer the "SOA or Business Architecture Who's on First" question.  (My other option was "SOA and Business Architecture: Chicken or Egg".  Given it's playoff time in Red Sox Nation, I went with the baseball theme.)

If you are attending the EAC conference, please drop into my session or look me up. 

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As most people know, one of my day jobs is Program Director for the SOA Consortium.  This week, our "EA2010" working group published the first release of their view of Enterprise Architecture 2010 in a Powerpoint deck.  Below is a sneak peak.  No surprise for readers of this blog, business architecture is of huge importance.  As are business smarts and business discipline.

In preparation for this release, I sat down with the EA2010 working group leaders, Ashok Kumar and Yogish Pai, to discuss their working group’s motivation, findings and next steps. That conversation is available to the public as an on-demand webcast or podcast.

During our conversation, Ashok and Yogish touched on a wide range of enterprise architecture concerns, including catalyzing business change, gaining business-smarts, shifting focus to business architecture, managing enterprise architecture, participating in strategy and delivery, and winning enterprise constituents.

If you have comments after viewing the webcast, please leave them here, or jump over to the SOA Consortium Insights blog.  The working group members are real enterprise architecture practitioners, and they are very interested in feedback from the broader community. 

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