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Talking to industry journalists and observers gives us an interesting view into how opinion leaders see enterprise architecture and where it fits in today’s business environment. Given today’s pressures, it wasn’t surprising t…
Talking to industry journalists and observers gives us an interesting view into how opinion leaders see enterprise architecture and where it fits in today’s business environment. Given today’s pressures, it wasn’t surprising t…
In enterprise-architecture, in what sense are we using the word ‘enterprise’? As adjective, or as noun? This is another point of language that turns out to be surprisingly important… We can use ‘enterprise’ as adjective, to describe a scope for something else. That’s the sense that’s used in classic IT-oriented ‘enterprise-architecture’: the context or concern is IT-architecture, […]
Ends and means are not the same: everyone knows it’s not a good idea to mix them up. The same is true of ‘enterprise’ and ‘organisation’. The enterprise represents the ends of what we do; the organisation is part of the means. It’s really important not to mix them up. [Apologies, but this is another one where […]