At my company we have found a nice way to get future-oriented discussions going. We have a workshop format for discussing current strategy and trends in order to define the most important capabilities for the future. These workshops have really been a…
All people have their own “filters” that they apply unconciously in interactions with other people. This means that two people sharing the same experience can have different opinions on what actually happened. In order to better understand each other we need to realize…
When I was in New York City a few years ago I went by taxi from the airport to my hotel on Manhattan. I had looked into the maps and knew where my hotel was. But the taxi driver just crossed the…
I often don’t like when EA discussions take the route into meta concepts. Enterprise architects – as the abstract thinkers they often are – have a tendency to discuss meta concepts. “What does the meta model of that method look like?”, “What…
What is the total value of your organization’s assets? The accountants keep track on all physical assets and the financial assets, but the field of measuring intangible assets is still emerging. Intangible assets are all the resources within the organization that does not…
If a song would count as my own signature song it would be Double Nature by my favorite Swedish band Mustasch. And isn’t that nice that it matches so well with what I feel about enterprise architecture! On one side you have business…