From AS-IS to TO-BE

Architects produce many types of models. One useful distinction is between AS-IS models (which describe the current situation) and TO-BE models (which describe some projected future situation). If we can compare an AS-IS model with a TO-BE model, we ca…

Potts in Copenhagen

Chris Potts will return to Denmark on 24-25 January 2013 to give an exclusive seminar: Driving Business Innovation & Performance With Enterprise Architecture: How to be a Highly-Influential Enterprise Architect. Chris Potts has just published the last book in his trilogy of business novels: “FruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology”, “RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary …read more

Architecture and the Imagination

An architect looks at a valley and imagines a viaduct. She then describes this imaginary viaduct in great detail. As a result of her imagination, and the efforts of many engineers and other workers, when we visit the valley ten years later we too can s…