Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I ran across a document from the Dept. of Commerce that describes Enterprise Architecture as follows: “An Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a blueprint that explains how the results of Strategic Planning, Performance Planning, Budgeting, Capital Pl…
Dell’s entrepreneurial culture helped it grow into a global enterprise. But as Dell grew, disparate applications and processes made it harder to meet competitive challenges and comply with stricter financial regulations.
Using a “sim…
This week The Open Group IT Architect Certification (ITAC) program has now become The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) program. The IT Specialist Certification (ITSC) program has now become The Open Group Certified IT Specialist (Open CITS) program. With…
Dell’s entrepreneurial culture helped it grow into a global enterprise. But as Dell grew, disparate applications and processes made it harder to meet competitive challenges and comply with stricter financial regulations.
Using a “sim…
This week I talked in length about The New World of Enterprise Architecture or also referred to as Contemporary Enterprise Architecture. This is the notion that EA is primarily business driven and focused. A few weeks back, I picked up…
A selection of Tweets from various folks – with an especial thank-you to @systemsflow and @theopengroup – from the Open Group conference, Austin, Texas, 18-20 July 2011, via the Twitter hashtag #ogaus. (Selected in the sense that most of the Tweets I’ve included are on business-architecture and enterprise-architecture – I haven’t included much on Cloud, […]
Link: https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/protected/publications/viewDocument.html?publicationid=12410&documentid=11313
Well, I passed the TOGAF Certification Exam. Super happy. Here is some advice that I passed on to someone who saw my previous post:
I recommend the class led by Architecting the Enterprise. That will get you familiar with the materi…
Back on business-models again, this time with more of an emphasis on the implications for enterprise-architecture, rather than solely for business-architecture.
The initial challenge posed by my colleague was to describe my own business model, by which he meant “how do I make money?”. But there’s a bit more to it than that, which is what […]
Well, I passed the TOGAF Certification Exam. Super happy. Here is some advice that I passed on to someone who saw my previous post:
I recommend the class led by Architecting the Enterprise. That will get you familiar with the materi…
As the old phrase warns us, “vision without implementation is just hallucination”. That’s why all architects do some form of design, and ideally guide the implementation too. But do enterprise-architects design the enterprise? And if so, how do they do it? Or, for that matter, should they?
These are not trivial questions, as indicated well by […]