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	<title>Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education &#187; itsm</title>
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	<description>a practical approach by Leo de Sousa</description>
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		<title>Evolving IT Change Management into an Enterprise Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, we began down the road of adopting the IT Infrastructure Library framework. We began implementing our ITIL processes with Incident Management and Service Desk. We quickly followed with creating a Service Catalogue. The next major process was Change Management. A group of  key people were assigned to become our IT Change Advisory Board <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/12/evolving-it-change-management-into-an-enterprise-service/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Service Management Culture &#8211; Who&#8217;s job is it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Failing to consider your followers may result in you being the only one charging out of the trench towards the enemy. (credit Stephen Lamb &#8211; @SEE_EYE_OH) If I am leading, I need my team with me to be successful. In the complex world of IT Service Management, working as a team is the only way <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/10/service-management-culture-whos-job-is-it/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Canadian Colleges Exec Briefing &#8211; Dynamic IT in Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Milligan, National Technology Strategist, Microsoft Canada Dynamic IT in Education IT deliverables on campus today &#8211; supporting users, providing services and governance Higher Education IT Challenges &#8211; cost containment, security, reliability, interoperability, available choices Looked at maturity models, first used Gartner Maturity Model and then MIT Maturity Model.  Measure 3 areas: core infrastructure, business <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/02/microsoft-canadian-colleges-exec-briefing-dynamic-it-in-education/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More on Toyota&#8217;s A3 Process &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my original post about Toyota&#8217;s A3 Process, I received several tweets and comments about the use of the A3 Process in organizations. Redge posted a great comment: Having worked in the automotive industry and as a supplier to Toyota, I can attest to the value of the A3 format for problem solving. The objective <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/01/more-on-toyotas-a3-process/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adding Toyota&#8217;s A3 Report Process to your EA Toolkit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe McKendrick (@joemckendrick) wrote about Lean IT on ZDNet on Dec 27, 2010 titled Eight steps to achieve lean  IT. In his set of steps, Joe mentioned the Toyota A3 Report approach to looking at problems and A3 Thinking.   He refers to this site about the A3 Process.  You can download a template here. Here <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/01/adding-toyotas-a3-report-process-to-your-ea-toolkit/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Customer Service Expectations with Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do your customers understand how to get service from your organization? Do your customers understand what to expect from the services you deliver? Are your customers frustrated and upset when they interact with your Service Desk? Recently, I was on the customer end of service delivery. It got me thinking about what we could do <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/06/managing-customer-service-expectations-with-information/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Would You Reorganize An Application Service Delivery Model?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot about re-engineering the service delivery model for the application services team that I lead. I have been guiding my team to think about: &#8220;We deliver the platform and work with the business to provide services&#8221;. Our applications team is made up of subgroups aligned by major application services.  Here <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/03/how-would-you-reorganize-an-application-service-delivery-model/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Webinar Review: A&amp;G The State of EA: Is 2010 the Transformational Year?</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2010/01/webinar-review-ag-the-state-of-ea-is-2010-the-transformational-year/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=webinar-review-ag-the-state-of-ea-is-2010-the-transformational-year</link>
		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2010/01/webinar-review-ag-the-state-of-ea-is-2010-the-transformational-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my review of this morning&#8217;s Architecture &#38; Governance magazine webinar &#8221;The State of EA: Is 2010 the Transformational Year?&#8221; Presenters: George Paras, Editor-in-Chief, A&#38;G, Managing Director, EAdirections &#8211; gparas@EAdirections.com Alex Cullen, Vice President, Research Director, Enterprise Architecture, Forrester Research &#8211; acullen@forrester.com 1. What is the current state of EA? Forrester conducted a survey of <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/01/webinar-review-ag-the-state-of-ea-is-2010-the-transformational-year/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Delivering Projects by Managing Ops with a Duty Analyst</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/12/delivering-projects-by-managing-ops-with-a-duty-analyst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I presented the accomplishments of my applications team in 2009. I was blown away by the number and the scope of the projects my team delivered to our community. I firmly believe that the separation of our operational duties from our project work enabled us to be so productive. While most people would <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/12/delivering-projects-by-managing-ops-with-a-duty-analyst/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Driving IT Value Realization: The Marketing of IT &#8211; Review</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/11/driving-it-value-realization-the-marketing-of-it-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday Nov 6, 2009, I spent a valuable day at the Forrester Western Canadian IT Summit.  The day began and ended with  keynotes and in between there were 3 breakout tracks &#8211; CIO, EA and IT Ops.  This post covers a keynote by Bobby Cameron on Marketing IT.  I will write a separate post <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/11/driving-it-value-realization-the-marketing-of-it-review/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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