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	<title>Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education &#187; complexity</title>
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	<description>a practical approach by Leo de Sousa</description>
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		<title>Social in the Enterprise</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JP Ranganswami posted an article that resonated with the work I am doing on my MSc as well as some thinking about social enterprise in my day job.  Please take the time to read JP&#8217;s post Thinking about the Social Enterprise and Flow, it will definitely stimulate and challenge your thinking about how people and <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2012/01/social-in-the-enterprise/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Business Analytics Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I participated in a focus group to help start up the BCIT School of Business Business Analytics Centre of Excellence.  The room was full of Business Intelligence/Analytics/Insight leaders from around Vancouver.  We were brought together by Ed Bosman and Karen Plesner both instructors in the BCIT School of Business.  Karen facilitated a two hour discussion <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2012/01/business-analytics-anyone/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Evolution for My Eyes Triggers Some Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday February 19, 2010, I underwent laser eye surgery (Intralase Sub-Bowman&#8217;s Keratomileusis) to correct my short sightedness. I have worn glasses since I was 6 years old and contact lenses since I was 16. Over the past 15 years, I developed an allergic reaction to the protein buildup on the contact lenses and had <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/02/an-evolution-for-my-eyes-triggers-some-thoughts/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>IT Complexity Exploration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great phone call with Roger Sessions (@RSessions), CTO ObjectWatch a month ago about IT Complexity.  Over the past few weeks, I got a chance to read about Roger&#8217;s approach Simple Iterative Partitions (SIP) in a series of white papers: Controlling Complexity in Enterprise Architectures &#8211; Executive Summary Controlling Complexity in Enterprise Archtiectures <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/11/it-complexity-exploration/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;New Efficiency&#8221; Campaign for Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a half day seminar offered to IT leaders in Vancouver today by Microsoft Canada. Essentially, this was the launch of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 to the Vancouver market. There were about 100 people in attendance. Here is my Twitter stream from the session today &#8230; http://twitter.com/#search?q=leodesousa msft <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/10/microsofts-new-efficiency-campaign-for-windows-7/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Using ITG and EA to Manage IT Complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Roger Sessions (@RSessions) work on IT Complexity reminded me of a set of slides we created to articulate the value of IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture. We (my colleague Dave Cresswell and I) used a simplified model to articulate why we needed to build our Enterprise Architecture practice.  The central premise of the argument <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/10/using-itg-and-ea-to-manage-it-complexity/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Discussions on IT Complexity &#8230; a beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I added Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch to my blogroll today. I have been following Roger on Twitter @RSessions particularly his posts and discussions on IT Complexity and how it relates to IT project failures.  On Thursday, Oct 8th Roger and I shared a conference call and agreed to investigate opportunities to collaborate on IT complexity based <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/10/discussions-on-it-complexity-a-beginning/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptive Leadership in EA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Blumenthal wrote a great post &#8220;Adaptive Leaders Rule the Day&#8220;. In his post, Andy reviewed a Harvard Business Review July 2009 article &#8220;Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis&#8221; and commented on the article&#8217;s insights on adaptive leadership. I really liked Andy&#8217;s quote &#8220;Leaders need a proverbial &#8220;toolkit&#8221; of successful behaviors to succeed and even more <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/07/adaptive-leadership-in-ea/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Complexity with EA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over time, technology provides more and more functions and hopefully value to your enterprise. The challenge is how to manage the complexity that comes with technology. I started my IT career as an IBM 360 mainframe computer operator managing VM/CMS and DOS/VSE CICS systems. IT architectures were relatively simple. One large computer, a few large <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2008/05/managing-complexity-with-ea/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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