Posts by: Richard Veryard

Business Architecture Training – January 2013

The next public dates for my workshops with Unicom are as follows. Business Awareness for IT Specialists (January 28th) Business Architecture Series (January 29th-31st) Organizational Intelligence in the Public Sector (February 1st) Please tell them you saw it on my blog when…

The Physical Environment and its Outcomes

A dispute is currently raging between the UK Department for Education and the architecture profession. Famous architects such as Lord Rogers are demanding the right to design fancy schools, appealing to studies indicating that a well-designed environment can improve learning outcomes for…

Organizational Intelligence Forum – Spring 2013

In association with Unicom, I am trying to put together an Organizational Intelligence Forum, possibly on April 25th to coincide with the Performance Management Forum. Unicom is also planning another Enterprise Architecture Forum in London on March 21st. These generally attract a…

Enterprise Architecture Forum – Spring 2013

Unicom is planning another Enterprise Architecture Forum in London on March 21st. These generally attract a good audience of senior IT management from blue chip organizations. At the previous Forum in September, we had case studies from finance, oil and higher education.…

Design for Regulation

One source of complexity in organizational design is the requirement for various forms of regulation and governance. This requirement results in significant levels of bureaucracy and management overhead, as seen across much of the public sector as well as in many large…

Co-Production of Strategy and Execution

#antifragile In my post Structure Follows Strategy?, I discussed the reciprocal relationship between strategy and structure, and discussed my friend Patrick Hoverstadt's mission to connect enterprise architects with the strategy processes in an enterprise. My thoughts about strategy are influenced by Mintzberg,…

Showrooming in the Knowledge Economy

In the knowledge economy, service providers often give away selected portions of their intellectual property, in the form of webinars, white papers, blogposts, free downloads or whatever. They then hope to generate revenue from other products and services. So the free IP…

Showrooming and Multi-sided Markets

As a retail phenomenon, #showrooming exposes a conflict of interest between online and traditional retailers. Many shoppers will examine a product in a traditional store, and then buy it from an online retailer or discount warehouse. The first retailer incurs costs -…

Challenge-Led Innovation

#oipsrv One view of innovation is that it is motivated by a series of challenges. Once upon a time, we would have used the word "problems", and called this the "problem-solving" approach to innovation. But the word "problem" is now taboo in…

On the Cultural-Linguistic Turn

A number of bloggers have talked about the central importance of story-telling and sense-making in the architect's craft. So I wanted to highlight an interesting piece about Rowan Williams in the Guardian recently, with possible relevance to the practice of enterprise architecture…

Understanding Business Services

A business service represents an agreed delivery of some parcel of capability from one agent to another agent. Understanding services properly requires a combination of all six of the viewpoints I have defined for business architecture. The capability viewpoint describes the parcel…
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