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Technology News, UK News: BT announces infrastructure …

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Superfast broadband ‘needed for next generation of services’ – 13/09 …

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This is according to technology industry consultant Steve Nimmons, who explained how superfast broadband will have both commercial and …

switchandgive.com – Broadband rollout ‘needs to balanced’

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8 hours ago – … the future role of the IT professional and recruitment and retention across the IT industry. … as one of the world’s most highly regarded IT recruitment consultancies. ….Steve Nimmons, a member of the Conservative party’s technology forum, …

ISPs urged not to take liberties over relaxation of broadband red tape

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Satellite and mobile broadband viable for rural areas

XLN Telecom
According to Steve Nimmons, a regular contributor to the technology press and Conservative Technology Forum, it would be "much more sensible" to use alternative solutions instead of laying cabling for miles to reach a small number of households. "It’s going …

Speedy internet infrastructure: contrasting views

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Satellite broadband ‘good alternative in countryside’ – Tooway …

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Tooway Satellite Broadband news from ToowayBroadband

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1 day ago – Steve Nimmons, a technology industry consultant, said both mobile and satellite internet would be "perfectly reasonable" choices for …

Broadband Internet – KUMPUL.ORG

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Broadband Internet – www.sandmcs.com.au

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Chartered Management Institute

Work together,’ network providers told | Chartered Management …

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British Computer Society

ISPs ‘must be aware’ of local concerns when rolling out … – BCS

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Britain needs ‘high speed internet capacity’ – News – Broadband Finder

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News » Satellite and mobile broadband ‘offer value in rural areas …

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1 day ago – Technology industry consultant Steve Nimmons explained that the two solutions can complement fixed networks, by offering connectivity in …

UK needs high-speed broadband connectivity to meet future …

www.arrowcommunications.co.uk › … › Fixed Services

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UK needs quicker internet for ‘next generation of services’

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Broadband improvements ‘could improve private cloud take-up …

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High-speed internet required to help govt services… – Silobreaker

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1 day ago – That is according to Steve Nimmons, a technology industry consultant, who said that the introduction of new government public services will be …

Britain needs ‘high speed internet capacity’ – Silobreaker

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Tech expert says fibre broadband may not be best for rural areas …

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3 days ago – … not the smartest option for improving connectivity in rural communities, according to a technology industry consultant. Steve Nimmons, who is …

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ISPs ‘must be aware’ of local concerns when … – UKPlurk Sci/Tech

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TaxAssist Accountants – High speed internet required to help govt …

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An effective Enterprise Architecture enables the organisation to achieve the right balance between IT efficiency and business innovation.

However new elements are affecting the way in which the Enterprise Architecture is designed and implemented. In today’s unstable climate, where change is becoming the norm and every organisation needs to respond rapidly to the constant changing needs of the business environment. Enterprises should look to having a strategy in place and also to execute those strategies. They must be aware of the tools that are suitable so that these two areas deliver business value. A flexible, changeable and reusable framework that will meet current and future business trends is crucial for an enterprise.

Join the Strategy Panel for a stimulating debate about the role of Enterprise Architecture in 21st century business.

Panel 2: Strategic
(Strategic understanding to support the planning and development for your plan of action)

Panellists: Sally Bean (Enterprise Architecture Consultant), Steve Nimmons (Head of Enterprise Architecture at Atos), Philip Veasey (Owner, Axum Ltd. and Management Consultant)

• Understanding good and bad complexity
• Next Practice Architecture, understanding disruptive technologies and the need for new architectural thinking
• Outside in – why we need to think global and act local
• Systems Thinking VPEC-T and other structure techniques to aide strategic problem solving
• Business and IT strategy and what each should deliver
• Future roles, responsibilities and capabilities of Enterprise Architects

Full details including registration.

A day long exploration with peer enterprise architects and experts from across UK and European industry and government.

I will be speaking at the BCS EA Specialist Group conference on Thursday 18th October in Central London.

Please do consider attending. It will be a lively and thought provoking event. The event will be recorded, and heckling encouraged (at least in my session!). Please note – I will not be appearing in silhouette as might be implied in the profile below!

About the Conference

The theme for this year will be Emerging Trends and Lessons Learnt. The conference will explore:

• New trends in enterprise evolution, and the evolving relationship connecting the business, its users and enterprise ICT
• New ideas in enterprise architecture thinking and practical examples of where these ideas have manifested and what the pros and cons have been to enterprise effectiveness, value and competitiveness
• Trends in evolution of EA as a profession
• Lessons learnt (with examples/case studies) in articulating, communicating and positioning EA

About the BCS EA Specialist Group

The BCS Enterprise Architecture specialist group (SG) was started three years ago and is now one of the biggest groups in the BCS with around 2,000 active architect members, mainly in the UK but with 15% overseas. Many of the UK’s largest corporations and public departments are represented. Up to now the SG has focused on providing terrestrial events across the UK for enterprise architects to meet to discuss topical themes and issues. These networking events are regularly attended by around 50 members, with the most popular attracting over 100 people.

Full details of the conference are available on the British Computer Society website.

Presentation by Steve Nimmons, Head of Enterprise Architecture Consulting at Atos. The presentation looks at Systems Thinking and its importance to successful Enterprise Architectures. A Systems Thinking framework, VPEC-T is described including practical applications of Systems Thinking in Enterprise Architecture problem solving.

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Aphorisms from the Bed of Procrustes, by the great Nassim Taleb.

If my detractors knew me better, they would hate me even more.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man’s worst fear is just death.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

Knowledge is subtractive, not additive – what we subtract (reduction by what does not work, what not to do), not what we add (what to do). [an aphoristic argument in favour of the anti pattern above the pattern?]

They read Gibbon’s Decline and Fall on an eReader but refuse to drink Chateau Lynch-Bages in a Styrofoam cup. [resonates with my view that eReaders are anti patterns]

My best example of the domain dependence of our minds, from my recent visit to Paris: at lunch in a French restaurant, my friends ate the salmon and threw away the skin; at dinner, at a sushi bar, the very same friends ate the skin and threw away the salmon.

The main disadvantage of being a writer, particularly in Britain, is that there is nothing you can do in public or private that would damage your reputation.

Nation-states like war; city-states like commerce; families like stability; and individuals like entertainment.