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Meta-Architecture Action Guide
In this paper, one distills the essentials of the Meta-architecture phase of the Visual Architecting Process. The meta-architecture collects together decisions relating to the architecture strategy. It sets direction for the architecture effort, with high-level decisions that will shape the architecture and guide the architects. These include architecture principles, statements...
The Role of the Architect
A simplistic view of the role is that architects create architectures, and their responsibilities encompass all that is involved in doing so. This would include articulating the architectural vision, conceptualizing and experimenting with alternative architectural approaches, creating models and component and interface specification documents, and validating the architecture against requirements...
Architecture as Business Competency
In this paper, one explores the role that software architecture plays in business success, looking at what happens in the absence of architecture. One explores how architecture addresses the problems encountered quite broadly across software development organizations, be they product development organizations or IT groups supporting the business. Since architectures...
Organizational Politics: Architect Competency Elaboration
Organizational politics is essential to the effectiveness of an architect. Architectures have many and diverse stakeholders. Often they are used across organizational boundaries, by other projects, divisions, and even other companies. To gain and maintain the sponsorship of management and the enthusiastic support of other key influencers, one need to...
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Bill Ackman's Letter to Paulson On Restructuring Plan
Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. sent the following letter Friday to the U.S. Treasury Department regarding Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE): • • • by SA Editors
HBOS Chief Warns Credit Crunch to Last
LONDON (Reuters UK) - The chief executive of home lender, HBOS HBOS, warned on Saturday that the credit crunch was likely to last until early 2010. "My personal view, for what it's worth, is that it will take 18 months to play through the system," Andy...
Media Markt Rejects DSG Bid
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Germany's Media Markt, Europe's biggest electrical goods retailer, has rejected a request from DSG International DSGI to consider a bid for its closest rival, the Financial Times said on its Web site. The FT.com, citing unnamed people familiar with both companies,...
DSG Sought Bid From Media Markt, But Rebuffed: Report
LONDON (Reuters) - Germany's Media Markt, Europe's biggest electrical goods retailer, has rejected a request from DSG International Plc DSGI to consider a bid for its closest rival, the Financial Times said on its Web site. The FT.com, citing unnamed people familiar with...
U.S. May Take Control of Mortgage Giants
By Glenn Somerville and Al Yoon WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - The U.S. government plans to put government sponsored mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE under federal control, the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers reported late Friday, in what...
U.S. to Take Control of Fannie and Freddie: Reports
By Glenn Somerville and Al Yoon WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to put government sponsored mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE under federal control, the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers reported late ...
Citi Could Sell Primerica, Texas Business: Ladenburg's Bove
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup C could sell its Primerica financial services unit and its First American banking subsidiary in Texas as the bank continues to restructure its business, Ladenburg Thalmann analyst Richard Bove said in a research note. In the...
Industry Moves: DRG; Jobvite; Hachette Filipacchi; ActiveVideo; Federated Medial; Innovyx
-- Digital Rights Group: Lee deBoer has been tapped to lead the UK distributor's new U.S. branch, Variety reports. A 20-year HBO vet, deBoer will now be responsible for acquiring rights from U.S. content creators and pitching shows to the UK for DRG. During his tenure at HBO, he...
Spectrum Bridge Raises $2 Million To Create Secondary Market For Spectrum
Lake Mary, Fla.-based Spectrum Bridge, which is headed by former Motorola (NYSE: MOT) executives, is launching SpecEx.com, which aims to create a secondary trading market for valuable spectrum. The site goes live today with an initial inventory of about $250 million in airwaves, and the company will take a...
Treasury Near GSE Bailout Plan: Report
By Glenn Somerville and Al Yoon WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is close to finalizing a plan to buttress mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Citing people familiar with...
Alabama Group Files Suit Over Jefferson County Debt
By Melinda Dickinson BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - An Alabama activist group has filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel $6.6 billion in debt and related swaps issued by Jefferson County, claiming the county faces financial disaster because of misdeeds by Wall Street ...
Mobile Content Porting Firm Tira Wireless Closes Down
Tira Wireless, the Toronto-based mobile content porting company, has closed down, we have learned...we have been trying to contact the company for a week now, but no one has been responding to e-mails or phone calls, including senior management of the company. Some other reports on its shutting down...
Dow, S&P End Higher on Financials, Down For Week
By Kristina Cooke NEW YORK (Reuters) -The broader U.S. stock market edged higher on Friday, but still posted its worst week since May, as a rally in financial stocks helped reverse losses sparked by a government report showing the U.S. jobless rate rose...
HSBC's Green Says Asian Demand to Spur Inflation
By Scott Haggett CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters UK) - Rising demand for commodities and energy from rapidly growing Asian economies could mean inflation will become a long-term problem for central banks, Stephen Green, group chairman of HSBC Holdings HSBA said on Friday. Green, who runs the...
Resolution Won't Rule Out Possible Friends Prov Move
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Resolution, in the British investment vehicle's first comment on a possible takeover of insurer Friends Provident FP, said it was not ruling out a deal in the future. The investment vehicle for entrepreneur Clive Cowdery in a statement late on Friday...
Leucadia's Key to Success
Ockham Research submits: Everyone has heard the theory that no investor can expect to consistently beat the market over the long term; the stock market today is simply too efficient. Of course, in most cases this sentiment is correct; it is exceedingly difficult to be on the right side...
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