Posts by: Kristian Hjort-Madsen

The Final Keynote…

This week, I gave my last keynote speech as Chief Architect in the Ministry of Finance on enterprise architecture and strategy.  As already revealed on Twitter and Facebook, I am taking a leave of absence from the public sector to assist Accenture…

In The Spotlight

A couple of months ago I was interviewed as “Architect in the Spotlight” for the November 2010 issue of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture.  It is a great honor to be in the spotlight, and I thank the chef editor and his…

The Business Value of Social Media

Last week I was interviewed as ‘Architect in the Spotlight’ for the Journal of Enterprise Architecture about the Danish approach to enterprise architecture and emerging trends in enterprise architecture.  Here I mentioned social media platforms as a trend that enterprise architects should…

Understanding IT Fashion

Seeing what is next is important in my world.  Consulting firms, management gurus, researchers, and even public agencies all seem to be suppliers of IT fashion through certain rhetoric and techniques.  Cloud computing, green IT, unified communications, Government 2.0…  The list of…

When IT Governance Meets Enterprise Architecture

Tomorrow, I am speaking at the Danish IT Society’s yearly IT Governance conference.  The conference program (in Danish) can be found here – and my presentation can be downloaded here. My three take aways for tomorrow are: Public IT-budgets can be tamed…

Understanding Zachman without the Buzz…

I recently commented on Philip Allega’s blog.  Phil understands that enterprise architecture (EA) programs must be more than buzzwords, and his post made me revisit one of the EA-disciplines grand old men, John Zachman.  According to John Zachman, EA is a mechanism…

The Strategic Value of SOA

Just as I thought my academic publication career was over, today I noticed that the International Journal of Information Technology and Management finally published our comparative case study on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the banking sector. The article is an updated and…

Blogging Break for the New Dr. Chief Architect

This spring, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation and was promoted to Chef Architect in The Digital Taskforce in the Danish Ministry of Finance. Two large projects this fall in the Ministry of Finance will require a blogging break for me. But,…

The Skeptical Enterprise Architect

Other practitioners and researchers often quote my research to highlight enterprise architecture adoption challenges. In my practical work and research, I see EA as a toolbox that embraces, supplements, and extends other disciplines. I think that the jungle of commercial EA frameworks…