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It’s historical precedent that the loudest voice gets all the attention. This is true in all endeavours unless there is a conscious and deliberate act to counteract it.
This also holds true for geographic focus for business - and consulting organisations are no different. In New Zealand, Auckland gets the corporate focus, Wellington gets the Government focus, and other centres are less catered for.
As consultants and professionals we are continually striving to come up with that magic solution for our clients, the road untraveled, the thought no one else has had.
But coming up with these innovative ideas requires not only imagination, but a continual regime of learning and development. In our busy consulting world it's hard to schedule and commit time to professional development. If we do, it tends to be the ‘just enough and just in time’ model.
Being New Zealand's largest dedicated IT architecture company, we at Cyma know what it takes to be a ‘seriously good IT architect’ and stand out from the crowd.
Read on to discover the top 5 traits that we think make a seriously good IT architect: curiosity, the courage to be different, pragmatism, technical depth and leadership.
Here at Cyma we don't believe in traditional career paths, to succeed in delivering a market-leading consultancy we need representation from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines. We are constantly looking for the thinkers, challengers and innovators who are prepared to take a complex problem and wrestle it to the ground and make sense of it for our clients.
Are you a thinker, challenger and innovator who is considering a career move into IT architecture? Regardless of your current job title, or where you are in your career journey, if you have some experience in technology or the application of technology to business, then keep reading - this blog is for you.
Cyma CEO Ross Wiliiamson firmly believes that IT Consulting has lost its way. In many companies, it is being used to augment their staff headcount - because bums on seats gets work done.
In his blog Ross argues that to consult effectively we need to see something new, something not been done before. We need to take a leap of faith and leave the cookie cutter at home. The world is constantly changing, so the pressure for consultants to actually be innovators and inventors is greater than ever. With all the flux and uncertainty right now, there is no spare investment to waste on doing what the past has already done, we must do something new.
Here’s Cyma’s Head of Technology Architecture Practice David Molesworth’s response to a recent Svyatoslav Kotusev article that assesses the top four enterprise architecture frameworks. The article is meant to be provocative, but we have found there is a lot of truth in what Kotusev is saying.
Rather than just bagging some of the best known EA frameworks, Kotusev does promote an alternative - Enterprise Architecture on a Page - which we have found is much closer to the reality of what works in the real world. We at Cyma are excited to see that others are aligned to our way of thinking. This is how we have been doing IT architecture for some time and we have embraced and further evolved this style of framework. Rather than define an explicit set of architecture processes, the framework provides a rich set of artefacts/tools that add real value, something that every IT architect should have in their kitbag.