Intellectual Arbitrage Group

Managing Director of Intellectual Arbitrage –a private for profit information technology think-tank, Gearson Lehrman Consultant, and Senior Analyst/Consultant for Cyon Research.

 

Brian is currently leading development of methodologies and process management tools for corporations such as Microsoft, Fujitsui/DMR Consulting, IBM and Samsung Electronics Corporation.

 

He specializes in application of information technology to document, simplify, design, deploy and manage processes in functional as well as I.T. areas.

 

February 02

Discipline Maturity Lifecycle: Enterprsie Architecture example
Spent this morning thinking about operating models in IT organizations and ITIL initiatives.   After a few minutes of pondering , hearing a group next to me at a conference extol the virtues of the 4hr days a few thoughts came back to me; the IT discipline is still in a low state of maturity.  If [...]

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January 13

Cutting off the ends of a Roast
Working with a colleague who recommended a book Whole System Design: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering, Peter Stasinopoulos.  Started skimming the book.  A good compilation of materials around design, systems thinking and sustainability.  What I found an interesting ah ha moment yesterday was that all this knowledge was known before, initiatives in business were [...]

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January 09

Pay me now or pay me later
The more things change the more they stay the same or so goes the old yarn.  Researching life cycle cost again for a paper I’m working on.  Found the often referenced but not often credited Iceberg and total cost commitment diagrams.   These were based on several studies from the DoD,  related components and documented in Design [...]

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December 20

Governance Visualization
Reading Enterprise Architecture -creating value by informed governance.   The one take-away I’ve gotten so far from the book has been confirmation of Stafford Beer VSM’s concepts: the recognition that management and control within an enterprise need to be designed with the same discipline and rigor or more that are used for products and services. Designing [...]

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November 30

EA Governance Modeling
One of the issues about governance topics that seems to come up all the time is just how to visually represent it.  Often governance seems to be displayed as a set of rules and responsibilities some body or person is held accountable for.  However, that seems to only address the legal or accountability aspects of [...]

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