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Brett Colbert
Brett Colbert is CTO of IT and Vice President of Enterprise Architecture at Salesforce. In this position, Colbert is responsible for creating the company’s strategic vision for IT architectures including application, data, security, and technology architectures. He leverages a business-driven approach to provide pragmatic solutions to his corporate business partners.
In talking to CIOs and CTOs, I often get the question “What do you think about the concept of bimodal or two-speed IT?” According to Gartner, by 2017, 75% of IT organizations will have a bimodal capability. The concept of bimodal IT is that IT has two parallel delivery approaches – rapid...
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When you say "Enterprise Architecture," it elicits a broad range of responses from "we need that" to "we tried that and it doesn't work." CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects and business function leaders often have a perception of EA based on past experience — good, bad or...
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Salesforce offers an amazing set of sales, marketing, service, collaboration, security, and analytics capabilities, as well as the ability to create your own solutions on the Salesforce1 Platform. Salesforce is used by a wide range of companies from small start-ups to large enterprise companies in...
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I am reminded every day that the pace of innovation just gets faster and faster. Agility in the eyes of the business functions comes in the form of tangible business capabilities that can be seen, touched, and experienced. These are usually instantiated in the form of some sort of application or...
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Creating and managing a successful enterprise architecture function requires a variety of different hard and soft skills. In addition, each company is different, and the enterprise architecture function needs to calibrate and align itself to the specific company.
With this in mind, there are five...
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CIOs are under pressure to deliver business capabilities on mobile devices, all while optimizing budgets, increasing operational excellence, and providing innovative, secure solutions. It’s a complex juggling act.
In the mobile space, it’s tempting to just jump in and start building mobile apps....
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For the CIO, often lost in the discussions of cloud, mobile, data and social is the discussion about Time to Value for IT. Time to Value (TtV) is the time between a business request and the initial delivery of that request. The goal of any business is the minimize TtV in order to realize some...
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One of the key benefits of talking about the Internet of Customers rather than the Internet of Things is that it helps us shift focus from devices to people, and specifically to customers. I was struck by how impactful the simple act of putting a picture of an actual customer in a presentation. It...
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Agile businesses are faced with a problem:
Every business is trying to move faster
Almost every facet of business relies on IT
Corporate IT is notoriously slow
Having been in IT for the last 20+ years, it is definitely painful to write the last line bullet point. Being IT professionals,...
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