IT Hiring Trends: Is EA’s Future in the Cloud?

Recent hiring trends data released by leading IT staffing and services firm, TEKsystems, shows continued strong demand for architects, and surging demand for architects with cloud experience.
We spoke with Tania Lavin, market research manager at TEKsys…

IT Hiring Trends: Is EA’s Future in the Cloud?

Recent hiring trends data released by leading IT staffing and services firm, TEKsystems, shows continued strong demand for architects, and surging demand for architects with cloud experience.
We spoke with Tania Lavin, market research manager at TEKsys…

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IT-centrism is killing enterprise-architecture

All right, I admit it: I allowed frustration to get the better of me in the previous post, ‘How not to define business-architecture‘. But the real point is this: IT-centrism is killing enterprise-architecture. Gartner made that clear some months back (apologies, can’t find the link…) in their ‘Hype Curve’ on EA: the IT-centric view of […]

How not to define business-architecture…

Oh no, not again… Having all but crippled enterprise-architecture for the past decade with a muddled mess of myopia and misdefinitions, it seems Open Group are hell-bent on making the same kind of mess in business-architecture… I need to be upfront about this: I don’t regard Open Group as ‘the bad guys’. Far from it: […]

Eight Hybrid Thinking Principles for Enterprise Architects

Coordinate from the outside in. Once the “outside” design is in place, it serves to guide the foundation for inside structures.
Pursue a portfolio of strategies.   Evaluate many small bets instead of single large ones
Harmonize,…

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