Nick Malik | EA Voices

How organizations filter out change agents in their hiring process

Hypothesis: One way to change an organization is to join it. Can we prove or disprove this hypothesis? I had a long lunch with a friend of mine (whom I’ll call Joseph) who was interviewing at an analyst firm that freely shares…

February 10, 2012
Nick Malik

Creating a Core Diagram for Agile Business

Today, I gave my talk at the Open Group conference that presents a step-by-step method for creating a core diagram that is useful for agile business. I will blog a series of posts on the topic to share this information to my…

February 1, 2012
Nick Malik

Do you address the complaint, address the root cause, or both?

Imagine a future where robots run the hospitals as a way to cut health care costs. A robot ambulance pulls up to the door of the Emergency Room with an unconscious patient. The robot triage nurse connects electrodes to the patient and…

January 13, 2012
Nick Malik

A Modern Update to The Blind Men and The Elephant

My humble apologies to John Godfrey Saxe, whose poem I have modified to add a seventh man, and to make a point… ‘twas seven men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them…

January 11, 2012
Nick Malik

Wikipedia’s EA article, second pass

After a rather protracted discussion on LinkedIn about the Wikipedia article on Enterprise Architecture (blogged here), I took another swing at rewriting the EA article’s opening section. It is far from perfect, but I encourage the folks who have been following this…

January 4, 2012
Nick Malik

Customer 2.0 Strikes

For those folks who don’t normally track the events of the Gamer community, I’d like to share a lesson that every consumer facing business should heed. Social Media has changed the consumer landscape in an irrevocable way. This incident demonstrates what happens…

December 28, 2011
Nick Malik

Wikipedia and the definition of Enterprise Architecture

I was asked, this week, about a page that I had put into Wikipedia nearly three years ago. Far from being able to take credit for it, I discovered that many of the edits made since I put the page up corrupted…

December 13, 2011
Nick Malik

Using Enterprise Architecture To Get The CIO To The Strategy Table

Recently, Patrick Gray blogged on TechRepublic that IT has a Chicken and Egg problem. In his post, he describes two mechanisms that CIOs take to become recognized as strategic leaders: a) work in anonymity to demonstrate that the work that they are…

November 21, 2011
Nick Malik

The End of Flash

The writing is on the wall. Adobe has abandoned Mobile Flash in favor of HTML5. It is just a matter of time before the Adobe Flash developers switch over to producing HTML5 instead of Flash as a matter of course. With the…

November 9, 2011
Nick Malik

To create a roadmap, we need to know what it is supposed to accomplish

I’ve been involved in a number of meetings recently as our IT teams try to come to consensus on answering this question: What is a Roadmap? It’s been a fascinating series of discussions. One thing that strikes me is that most of…

November 4, 2011
Nick Malik

Governance in an Organic Enterprise

I spent a few minutes this evening reading through Tom Graves’ fascinating post Management as ‘just another service’ and it got me thinking of Governance in the organic enterprise. As Tom describes, there are two paradigms of management at play: organization as…

September 28, 2011
Nick Malik

When IT Architects Describe EA to other IT Architects

Sometimes, I have a hard time being upbeat about the emergence of EA as a profession. This felling is especially acute when I come across a slick, well-prepared guide to Enterprise Architecture, written by an IT Architect, that is incomplete, inaccurate and/or…

September 2, 2011
Nick Malik

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