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TOGAF ADM – Preliminary phase

Objectives Determine the Architecture Capability desired by the organization: – Review the organizational context for conducting enterprise architecture – Identify and scope the elements of the enterprise organizations affected by the Architecture Capability – Identify the established frameworks, methods, and processes that intersect with the Architecture Capability – Establish Capability Maturity target Establish the Architecture Capability: – Define and establish the Organizational Model for Enterprise Architecture… Read More »

TOGAF ADM

The TOGAF ADM is the result of continuous contributions from a large number of architecture practitioners. It describes a method for developing and managing the lifecycle of an enterprise architecture, and forms the core of TOGAF.   The ADM has the following phases: Preliminary Requirements Management A – Architecture Vision B – Business Architecture C… Read More »

Most effective marketing channles

Word-of-mouth (W-O-M) remains the the most effective marketing channel for generating new leads and customers, according to SMBs responding to a recent BrightLocal survey. Asked to choose from 12 online and offline channels, 28% indicated W-O-M to be their most effective, up from 26% the previous year. Online marketing channels – which appear to be gaining in… Read More »

Leading Mobile Website Access Methods

While comScore figures show that time spent in mobile apps vastly exceeds time spent with the mobile web, a recent IAB report cautions that mobile app consumption relative to the mobile web may be overstated. That’s based on survey results indicating that smartphone internet users believe they generally spend as much time on the mobile… Read More »

Email List Growth Tactics

Roughly three-quarters of marketers, sales and business professionals around the world report that their email lists are growing, but for the vast majority of those (61% of respondents overall), that growth is coming slowly. As such, list growth emerges as one of the top email marketing objectives for the year ahead, per the latest survey… Read More »

Digital business models

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? The business media have had no shortage of these. Many such bulletins focus on radically changing the nature of competition in an industry, as Apple did for music and Uber did for taxis. While there is certainly merit in questioning your… Read More »

5 Simple Steps To More Efficient, Effective Meetings

Have you ever heard anyone complain a meeting was too short?   (Neither have I.)  Ever been frustrated at a meeting by rambling chitchat chewing up time while work remains undone… or by stragglers routinely wandering in 10 minutes late?  In the spirit of brevity and productivity, here are 5 simple  steps for more efficient, effective… Read More »

Send email from Gmail using Perl

You can send email from Perl using the following code: use Email::Send; my $mailer = Email::Send->new( { mailer => ‘SMTP::TLS’, mailer_args => [ Host => ‘smtp.gmail.com’, Port => 587, User => ‘username@gmail.com’, Password => ‘password’, Hello => ‘fayland.org’, ] } ); use Email::Simple::Creator; # or other Email:: my $email = Email::Simple->create( header => [ From… Read More »

Passing TOGAF exam

There are two levels to certification, denoted Level 1 and Level 2. Level 2 contains the learning requirements for Level 1. Certification to Level 1 is known as TOGAF 9 Foundation. Certification to Level 2 is known as TOGAF 9 Certified. If you decide to do both Level 1 and Level 2 combined , there are 2… Read More »