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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I showed a new diagram to a business client.  She said &#8220;My visceral reaction is&#8230;&#8221;  and I knew the diagram would need re-arranging. At the top of the diagram, smack-dab in the centre, was a central management organization.  The peripheral organizations are leery of centralization, and we need their &#8220;buy-in&#8221;.  So I was asked to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=539&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should governments sell their information?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metimea.ca/?p=478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This fall I&#8217;m working for the City of Toronto, doing a strategy and business architecture for Information Management. I try to give unbiased advice when consulting, but one of my clients knows that I have left-leaning politics.  So we ended up discussing everything from Dave Meslin&#8216;s citizen engagement initiatives to the gay penguins.  More relevantly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=478&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In-depth public participation in policy-making</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent this morning at GovCamp, discussing transparency, public participation and open-data initiatives.  It was interesting to have public servants interacting with the more political people on the outside.  The openness advocates don&#8217;t necessarily  understand that there are legislative, as well as cultural, reasons why bureaucracy is so risk-averse. The most intriguing talk was from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=415&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GovCamp unconference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 8, I will be attending GovCamp Canada 2011, an un-conference about innovation in the public sector.  It&#8217;s free of charge, and happening in the very cool MaRS building downtown Toronto. Filed under: Announcements Tagged: linkedin, speaking, systematic enterprise, unconference<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=403&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lots going on at Metimea!</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2011/03/18/lots-going-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metimea.ca/?p=386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have been busy here.  I just updated my Resume with current work for three clients. In February, I spoke to IRMAC about the benefits and pitfalls of being a Systematic Enterprise. Edward Tufte gave a course on Presenting Data and Information, and I was lucky enough to have a plane ticket to New York [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=386&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New metaphor for facilitators</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2011/02/10/new-metaphor-for-facilitators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metimea.ca/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was leading a requirements-gathering meeting with some government biologists.   There was a topic to reserve for later discussion, so I wrote &#8220;Parking Lot&#8221; on the whiteboard as usual. Car metaphors are over-used in business facilitation, so I asked them for alternatives from the natural world.  Hibernation was suggested!  So from now on, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=369&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working in the public interest</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2011/02/05/working-in-the-public-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metimea.ca/?p=366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I became an independent consultant, I was hoping to continue working in the public interest. I&#8217;m glad to report that I&#8217;ve helped people and the environment by being involved with: protection of endangered species conservation of ecologically important land energy efficiency for retail stores better &#38; cheaper technology for small health service providers enforcing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=366&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tension between EA and the PMO</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2010/04/12/tension-between-ea-and-the-pmo/</link>
		<comments>http://metimea.ca/2010/04/12/tension-between-ea-and-the-pmo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent presentation gives approaches for comparing and synchronizing Enterprise Architecture and Project Management methods. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=329&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Architecture: Business and Technology sides</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2010/03/31/enterprise-architecture-business-and-technology-sides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business and information architects should be on the business side of an organization.  Technical architects should be in the IT department.  Both should describe their environments rigorously and recommend improvements, but they should not expect to decide business or IT strategy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=327&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture success through standard methodologies</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2010/03/29/architecture-success-through-standard-methodologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EA Symposium theme today:  A successful Enterprise Architecture program is more likely if you pick international standards (one architecture framework, one modeling notation), instead of spending time on homegrown methodology.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=324&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Systematic Enterprise</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2009/12/16/the-systematic-enterprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 30 I will be speaking about "How to synchronize EA, PM and other management methods" at EAsymposium.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=314&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comments on business architecture ideas from Tom Graves</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2009/12/14/comments-on-business-architecture-ideas-from-tom-graves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Describe an enterprise's vision, mission and goals, use a Results Logic diagram, and include external stakeholders in the architecture. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=311&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing &amp; editing better documents</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2009/11/28/editing-course/</link>
		<comments>http://metimea.ca/2009/11/28/editing-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<title>Follow me on Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<title>Methodology paralysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before "analysis paralysis", there is "methodology paralysis".<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=290&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Analyst as lawyer, doctor and accountant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've analyzed enough legislation to play a lawyer on TV, but I'm not ready to be an accountant, doctor or car mechanic. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=287&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can many architects write one consistent model?</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2009/08/22/how-can-many-architects-write-one-consistent-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm collaborating with 3 architects, and evolving detailed modeling conventions so we produce a consistent architecture from the work of many analysts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=278&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A client perspective on eHealth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a hospital in-patient demonstrated that medical information management would be an interesting challenge!  Maybe when I'm done at the Ministry of Transportation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=274&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Business Architecture business-friendly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Business Architecture is usually controlled by Information Technology people.  How can it be made more accessible to business people?  What should and shouldn't be included in an accessible BA?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metimea.ca&#038;blog=7064112&#038;post=221&#038;subd=metimea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clarity, Guaranteed, and Available Now</title>
		<link>http://metimea.ca/2009/06/16/clarity-guaranteed-and-available-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alana Boltwood</dc:creator>
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