Patrick Bikar
Head of Business Architecture Center of Excellence
Cisco EMEAR
Articles
Business Architects at Cisco Live: Innovating with Impact, Speed and Scale
This year at Cisco Live Barcelona, Business Architecture (BA) will feature in many places and times throughout the event, but the center of gravity will no doubt be the BA booth, located right in the middle of the Hub ! Please come and visit us to better understand how Cisco Business Architec…
Innovate at speed, with Cisco Business Architecture
Digital disruption is affecting every market sector and every industry, every organisation and every user. Yet, innovating often seems slow and complex, and changes are awkwardly interdependent. This make it difficult to communicate in a clear way ‘what’ needs to be done, and even more so to explain…
Does Fast IT work in Government? It sure does: check out the case studies.
In my previous post, I explained how CIOs are reinventing the mission and role of the IT department in order to support the Digital Transformation of their organisation. And that adopting a Fast IT model is less about technology and more about progressive cultural and process changes. But is this re…
Fast IT for Cisco Partners: embrace Digital Disruption
Digital disruption. IDC says that 40% of market share leaders in their respective industries (our customers!) will be out of business in 10 years, because they will miss their transformation to Digital. What they need? Fast IT. Cisco experienced (both first hand and with our customers) that Fast IT…
New white paper: “Build your Strategic Roadmap to Fast IT”
Fast IT has the power to completely transform the role and the value of IT to the business. It is a critical imperative for those CIOs who want to transform themselves from the mere owners of technology stacks to the drivers of their enterprise’s digital transformation. CIOs must reinvent the…
Big Data in the Public Sector: Turning Bytes into Information Valuable to Society (White Paper)
Recent economic analysis by Cisco (http://internetofeverything.cisco.com/) reveals that the Internet of Everything is a $4.6 trillion opportunity for global Public Sector organisations (e.g. Government, Healthcare, Education) over the next decade. This is the result of cost savings, increased produc…
Understand how the Intercloud elegantly meets Public Sector IT requirements
Public Sector IT organisations are weary of vendor lock-in. And rightfully so: it is hard to buy cloud services from any supplier you choose and then freely manage these services as if they were part of your own extended private cloud. Main reason: lack of ability to connect different clouds: privat…
So you’ve got a cloud strategy? Sorry. What you need is a roadmap.
Like many IT organisations, yours probably knitted a “cloud strategy” some years ago. But do you have a clear roadmap to execute the required changes at all levels (people, processes, technology, services) in a stepwise approach? If not, your strategy is likely to remain just that – a “strateg…
IT Value Map: your compass for cloud transformation
In my previous blog, I explained how COBIT 5 provided a robust framework to understand your users’ expectation for IT services. With this knowledge in mind, we can now depict the value that your IT department should provide going forward and how success will be measured – in other words, we can now…