economics

On Business Architecture and Management Accounting

Someone asked on Linked-In Should EA be knowledgeable about accounting and its pitfalls? Here is a rewritten version of my reply. Management accounting provides a view of the distribution of costs, benefits and risks. Costs include labour costs, materials and other purchases,…

Money, price and value in EA (shorter version)

The previous post on ‘Money, price and value in enterprise-architecture‘ was kinda long, so here’s a (somewhat) shorter summary: Background It’s fundamentally important that enterprise-architectures should incorporate the following assertions: there are many other forms of value besides money in most aspects…

Money, price and value in enterprise-architecture

To my mind, the way that most people seem to handle the relationships between money, price and value in enterprise-architecture and EA models is, frankly, an utter shambles. So let’s get a few things straight here: there are many other forms of…

4 Easy Ways to Kill Innovation

How should we innovate? Business and technology leaders ask me this question a lot these days. I often respond with another question. Why do you want to innovate? Nothing kills innovation faster than a lack of focus. A financial services CTO established…

BYOD – Bring Your Own Device

By popular demand, many companies are shifting ownership of elements of corporate infrastructure onto their employees. This is known as BYOC (bring your own computer) or BYOD (bring your own device). There are many aspects to this trend. 1. Culture. Talented recruits…

BYOD – Bring Your Own Device

By popular demand, many companies are shifting ownership of elements of corporate infrastructure onto their employees. This is known as BYOC (bring your own computer) or BYOD (bring your own device). There are many aspects to this trend. 1. Culture. Talented recruits…

2025: The Future Of Public Services In Wales

Last week in Cardiff, First Minister Carwyn Jones welcomed the launch of ‘2025: The Future of Public Services in Wales’ at its Cardiff launch conference. Professor Steve Martin, Director of the Centre for Local and Regional Government Research helped conceive and design…

Maxims on Monday: Dedicated to Adam Smith

Wisdom of the great Adam Smith, social philosopher and economist: On the road from the City of Scepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to…
Relational-assets are not ‘possessions’

Relational-assets are not ‘possessions’

What happens when someone gets confused about the nature of different types of assets? Short answer: they try to treat everything as ‘possessions’ – and that’s when the lawyers have a field-day… A great example of this is described in a BBC…

Use EA to identify hidden costs in outsourcing

Why do we need enterprise-architecture in a business? And why does that EA need to be broader than just IT, often all the way out to a true enterprise-wide scope? One reason is implied this Tweet by Belgian consultant Patrick Van Renterghem: itworks:…
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