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VPEC-T Reviewed and Recent Webcasts

Roy Grubb, a consultant in Hong Kong, has produced a great Mindmap of the VPEC-T framework as part of a comprehensive review of Lost In Translation and the VPEC-T approach to IS analysis.You can find a series of webcasts about VPEC-T (5D Lens) here .

Recent VPEC-T related commentary around the blogosphere

Here are some recent posts that refer to VPEC-T - are there any recurring themes? Applicability to Enterprise Architecture might be one?http://tinyurl.com/6zqnr2 http://tinyurl.com/6gunn4 http://tinyurl.com/5cpalt http://tinyurl.com/6axp6n Thanks to Walter R. Smith, Tom Graves and Charles Edwards respectively

Roger Sessions Presents VPEC-T at the IASA Conference in NYC

"Every major discussion, from business requirements to technical design needs to include VPEC-T dialogue. The issues that are least comfortable to discuss may be the most important to understand"- Roger Sessions IASA Conference in NYC May 2008. Thanks Roger!

VPEC-T War Stories

Based on feedback and on reflection, I feel the practitioner interviews would benefit from an executive summary. So I’ve decided to try to summarise just three significant examples where VPEC-T was at the core of the project. 1) Change Execution: The removal of a perceived IT barrier to the transformation of an international retail bank, a. Value: [...]

An Information Systems ‘face’ on System Thinking

For those of you who’ve read LiT you’ll know the authors are fans of System Thinking . It was always in the back of our minds as we developed the VPEC-T framework and described Externalization and Adoption Engineering. Our primary focus with LiT is the improvement of the communication between business and IT – not [...]

VPEC-T and Climate Change?

Nigel poses the intriguing idea that, while it’s perhaps obvious that different Value Systems are involved in something as intractable as a real-world peace process for example, and that they need to be identified and addressed in someway, it’s less obvious that something similar is going on with business change in organisations. What if we were [...]

The Machine is Us/ing Us - Externalization trend

Perhaps the most compelling observations of the Externalization trend comes from Professor Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas Sate University. He created the now famous “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us.” movie which was posted on YouTube: Here’s a link to a rather unpolished movie of Michael Wesch explaining ‘The Machine Is Us’. [...]

Carl’s words on Externalization

Below is an excerpt from a post on the Capgemini CTO blog by Carl Bate. I think it’s a good summary of what we mean by Externalization … “The second IT revolution is already happening -of course it really started with the Web – and perhaps is best formalised now in industry terms through the Software as [...]