Alan’s Reading List Summary

I have peppered my blog posts with great books, articles, videos and Podcasts for architects to reference.  If you are not keen to wade through all of my long-winded ramblings and rants then you can find them all listed on the “Reading list”, below.

As a bonus, I list them in the order I would read them if my brain was wiped and I had to read them all again.

1. The Executive and the Elephant
2. Executive Presence
3. Business Analyst’s Handbook
4. Intersection
5. The Pyramid Principle
6. The Lean Startup
7. The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture
8. IBM: Rebuilding Customer Trust in Retail Banking
9. Forrester: The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012.
10. IDC’s Business Strategy: Digital Services Impact on Customer Retention and Acquisition
11. McKinsey:  Mastering the building blocks of strategy
12. McKinsey:  The strategic yardstick you can’t afford to ignore
13. McKinsey Quarterly: The consumer decision journey
14. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms, 7 August 2013
15. The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013
16. The Gartner CRM Vendor Guide, 2013
17. A MULTI-CHANNEL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR BANKING
18. IBM C-Suite Study of 2013
19. WordPress for Dummies
20. TED Talk:  Simon Sinek – How great leaders inspire action
21. TED Talk:  Philip Evans – How data will transform business
22. TED Talk:  Seth Priebatsch – The game layer on top of the world
23. Gartner: Gamification Is Not Just for Fun; It Can Personalize Customer Engagement With Bank Products and Services
24. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
25. Digital Bank by Chris Skinner
26. Crowdsourcing for Dummies
27. Service Design Tools: Communication Methods Supporting Design Processes
28. Operating Model Reading Room
29. Stephen Fry explains the history of computer thinking and the revolution of utility in cloud computing
30. The Art of Strategic Planning for Information Technology by Bernard Boar
31. Mapa Research – Mobile Banking Series: State of the Market 2014 and commentary
32. Defining your Operating Model: Designing a Foundation for Execution
33. Accenture: The Everyday Bank.
34. McKinsey: The Future of U.S. Retail Banking Distribution
35. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky.
36. Deloitte.  Banking Disrupted
37. Using the IBM Security Framework and IBM Security Blueprint to Realize Business-Driven Security
38. Addressing Emerging Threats and Targeted Attacks with IBM Security Network Protection (redp4826)
39. IBM Red Book SG248082:  Managing Security and Compliance in Cloud or Virtualized Data Centers
40. Modern Web Development with IBM WebSphere
41. Application Release & Deployment for Dummies
42. DevOps for Dummies
43. Service Virtualization for Dummies
44. Ishmael, An adventure of the Mind and Spirit
45. Enterprise Integration Patterns or Pro Spring Integration
46. Patterns of Information Management
47. TED Talk: Daniele Quercia – Happy maps
48. TED Talk: Fei-Fei Li – How we’re teaching computers to understand pictures
49. APIs for Dummies

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