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Trends and the Future

Useful web sites that provide information relevant to Enterprise Architecture about trends and the future. These sites offer some great insights into what is happening now and in the future. Lots of inspiration and ideas - as the TED site says, "ideas worth spreading". These sites will help you to keep the saw sharp.

TED - Ideas worth spreading

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. Richard Saul Wurman is chairman and creative director of TED; he coined the term "information architect" in 1976

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2007

Eight mega trends impacting all IT organizations (according to Gartner): Commoditizing the Tech Sector, Globalizing of Supply and Demand, Virtualizing the Enterprise Platform, Freeing Communications, Socializing Technology, Revolutionizing Industries, Inspiring Innovation, and Transforming IS Management.

Harvard Business Review - Current Issue

The current issue of Harvard Business Review magazine - articles and case studies in the current print and online editions which feature business articles discussing the most current topics.

Information Age - Online

News, analysis and insight for IT and business leaders.

The CIO Resource Center

A useful compendium of reports, articles, case studies, white papers, and similar material.

Learning in the New Economy e-Magazine (LiNE Zine)

An editorially independent publication introducing the best thinking on learning, performance, knowledge, and human capital in the New Economy.

Wired magazine

Includes some interesting articles that often challenge conventional thinking.

How much information?

A fascinating study that aims to show just how much information has been created in the world. This is a topic dear to my heart, because as a general rule we generate far more information than we have capacity to handle. "Information overload" is a phrase that can mean many things, but from an organisational sense it usually means that there is either no architecture, or the architecture is inadequate - a bit like having building overload if the city planning department don't control development of new property!

The Institute for the Future (IFTF)

The Institute for the Future is a strategic research group focused on providing insights into business strategy, product design processes, and new business development. IFTF is an independent nonprofit research group that works with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. They provide the foresight to create insights which lead to action, resulting in customized winning strategies and successful new businesses.

The Learning Partnership

A senior level executive education company making a "faculty network" of some of the most knowledgeable business thinkers, educators, writers and speakers drawn from North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific's best business schools, consultancies and organizations - and the strategic business knowledge they create - available to senior management teams to help them leverage that knowledge throughout their corporations. TLP gives corporations direct access to the most knowledgeable business thinkers and mentors, the most effective management educators, the most imaginative program designers, the most enlightening conference speakers and the most thought provoking workshop facilitators, regardless of geographical or institutional boundaries.

Consultant News.com

The latest news about the big consulting firms.

IT Sites Directory

A useful starting point to finding IT resources.

Boxes and Arrows is a good site for articles and advice. Boxes and Arrows, which describes itself as "the definitive source for the complex task of bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape", is a peer-written journal dedicated to discussing, improving and promoting the work of this community by sharing of technique, innovation and informed opinion. As with many of the more recent sites, it takes the narrow Internet view of information architecture (once again - see my discussion of the 3 generations of information architecture). ...www.boxesandarrows.com

Edward Tufte has written some wonderful books that deal largely with the presentation of information (presentation is one of my Evernden Eight factors). It is a delight to read his work because he looks at the big picture instead of the more common IT view. ...http://www.edwardtufte.com/