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	<description>a practical approach by Leo de Sousa</description>
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		<title>Managing Customer Service Expectations with Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do your customers understand how to get service from your organization? Do your customers understand what to expect from the services you deliver? Are your customers frustrated and upset when they interact with your Service Desk? Recently, I was on the customer end of service delivery. It got me thinking about what we could do [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/12/delivering-projects-by-managing-ops-with-a-duty-analyst/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Delivering Projects by Managing Ops with a Duty Analyst'>Delivering Projects by Managing Ops with a Duty Analyst</a></li>
<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/03/how-would-you-reorganize-an-application-service-delivery-model/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How Would You Reorganize An Application Service Delivery Model?'>How Would You Reorganize An Application Service Delivery Model?</a></li>
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		<title>How Would You Reorganize An Application Service Delivery Model?</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2010/03/how-would-you-reorganize-an-application-service-delivery-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot about re-engineering the service delivery model for the application services team that I lead. I have been guiding my team to think about: &#8220;We deliver the platform and work with the business to provide services&#8221;. Our applications team is made up of subgroups aligned by major application services.  Here [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2008/05/managing-complexity-with-ea/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Managing Complexity with EA'>Managing Complexity with EA</a></li>
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		<title>Webinar Review: A&amp;G The State of EA: Is 2010 the Transformational Year?</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2010/01/webinar-review-ag-the-state-of-ea-is-2010-the-transformational-year/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=webinar-review-ag-the-state-of-ea-is-2010-the-transformational-year</link>
		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2010/01/webinar-review-ag-the-state-of-ea-is-2010-the-transformational-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my review of this morning&#8217;s Architecture &#38; Governance magazine webinar &#8221;The State of EA: Is 2010 the Transformational Year?&#8221; Presenters: George Paras, Editor-in-Chief, A&#38;G, Managing Director, EAdirections &#8211; gparas@EAdirections.com Alex Cullen, Vice President, Research Director, Enterprise Architecture, Forrester Research &#8211; acullen@forrester.com 1. What is the current state of EA? Forrester conducted a survey of [...]


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		<title>Delivering Projects by Managing Ops with a Duty Analyst</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/12/delivering-projects-by-managing-ops-with-a-duty-analyst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I presented the accomplishments of my applications team in 2009. I was blown away by the number and the scope of the projects my team delivered to our community. I firmly believe that the separation of our operational duties from our project work enabled us to be so productive. While most people would [...]


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		<title>Driving IT Value Realization: The Marketing of IT &#8211; Review</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/11/driving-it-value-realization-the-marketing-of-it-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday Nov 6, 2009, I spent a valuable day at the Forrester Western Canadian IT Summit.  The day began and ended with  keynotes and in between there were 3 breakout tracks &#8211; CIO, EA and IT Ops.  This post covers a keynote by Bobby Cameron on Marketing IT.  I will write a separate post [...]


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		<title>Helping your team be effective &#8230; the role of a Duty Analyst</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/09/helping-your-team-be-effective-the-role-of-a-duty-analyst/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=helping-your-team-be-effective-the-role-of-a-duty-analyst</link>
		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/09/helping-your-team-be-effective-the-role-of-a-duty-analyst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing about a topic that came up this week when working with my colleagues at the University of Alaska Office of IT. A common challenge all IT Service teams face delivering projects when there are huge operational demands.  Here is the approach we took to address this critical and ongoing challenge in my [...]


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		<title>Returning North for More HE Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/09/returning-north-for-more-he-collaboration/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=returning-north-for-more-he-collaboration</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am back at the University of Alaska Fairbanks this week to collaborate on IT Service Management with a focus on: service definition service delivery service catalogue. I will also be a presenter at Univeristy of Alaska Office of Information Technology 3rd Annual Techfest 2009 talking about BCIT&#8217;s Technology Enabled Knowledge (TEK) strategic initiative that wrapped up [...]


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		<title>Consistency in Technology Solution Delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my conversation with Gene Leganza, Forrester VP Research last week ( @gleganza), we spoke about how to address delivering technology in a consistent manner. It inspired me to write this post about our Solutions Council. Here goes: How do you handle service requests in your IT organization? Have you adopted an IT Service Management [...]


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		<title>Gartner&#8217;s Emergent Architecture &#8211; Is this really a new approach?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 11th, Gartner announced a &#8220;new approach for enterprise architecture&#8221; that they labelled &#8220;Emergent Architecture&#8221;.  I got a chance to read some responses from Todd Biske, Mike Rollings, and Dion Hinchcliffe.  Thanks for the great insights and commentary. In the press release, Bruce Robertson, Gartner Research VP states the two characteristics of &#8220;Emergent EA&#8221;: [...]


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		<title>Adaptive Leadership in EA</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/07/adaptive-leadership-in-ea/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=adaptive-leadership-in-ea</link>
		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/07/adaptive-leadership-in-ea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Blumenthal wrote a great post &#8220;Adaptive Leaders Rule the Day&#8220;. In his post, Andy reviewed a Harvard Business Review July 2009 article &#8220;Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis&#8221; and commented on the article&#8217;s insights on adaptive leadership. I really liked Andy&#8217;s quote &#8220;Leaders need a proverbial &#8220;toolkit&#8221; of successful behaviors to succeed and even more [...]


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