Posts by: Janne J. Korhonen

When Less Is Too Much

Sometimes less is too much. Inexorably, at some point, the organization or logic of a system that has worked well in the past turns out inadequate in the face of changing environmental circumstances. The inherent limits of system resilience --...

Requisite Cognitive Logics in Enterprise Architecture

In my last two blog posts, I have outlined a five-scale classification of system views and elaborated on the systemic-structural underpinnings of each view. As these systemic views are increasingly expressive and powerful, they also call for progressively sophisticated levels...

Requisite System View to Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a representation of the business in terms of its components and component relationships in order to facilitate business change. It mediates our knowledge and understanding of the underlying organizational system and focuses our attention to the...

Towards Business-IT Confluence

Information technology has traditionally been seen as mere "cost of doing business" that is "aligned" with business at best. As IT infrastructure has commoditized at operational levels and the business environment has become increasingly complex, however, the focus of IT...

Maturity Begets Agility

Counterintuitive it may seem, agility does not come with an abandonment of rules, but actually requires more organizational discipline. Mature organizations do things systematically, while immature organizations achieve their outcomes as a result of the heroic efforts of individuals (Harmon,...
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