Governance

Enterprise Frameworks: In Perfect Harmony Together…

If you are not a practicing Enterprise Architect, words such as COBIT, TOGAF, ITIL and ZACHMAN will either mean nothing to you or will more often than not confuse you. Most IT professionals will relate these terms with concepts such as architecture…

Enterprise Frameworks: In Perfect Harmony Together…

If you are not a practicing Enterprise Architect, words such as COBIT, TOGAF, ITIL and ZACHMAN will either mean nothing to you or will more often than not confuse you. Most IT professionals will relate these terms with concepts such as architecture…

Meta-Architecture (Yawn)

#entarch people seem to spend a lot of time defining the building blocks of architecture, and insisting on the correct definition. Some of my friends have been doing it on Twitter recently, and I've certainly participated in this kind of debate myself…

One more try…

Oh well. The past couple of posts on a ‘thought-experiment‘ in using enterprise-architecture methods to guide a fundamental rethink of economics both seem to have gone down like the proverbial lead-balloon. Fair enough. But I guess I’ll do one more try before going back…

A simpler version of the ‘EA-governance thought-experiment’

The previous post ‘Governance in a responsibility-based enterprise-architecture‘ was a bit long… as usual… So here’s a (somewhat) shorter-form version of the same ‘thought-experiment’ about an EA-based approach to governance and law, laid out in step-by-step format, and without the perhaps rather…

Levels of Governance

In my previous post, I put forth the general -- and trivial -- idea that the increasing complexity of the strategic context calls for increasingly sophisticated governance models. In the following, I will further develop the notion and outline five...

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…

IT Governance is Contingent on the Strategic Context

Peterson (2004) identifies three basic value drivers of IT governance: service infrastructure, solution integration and strategic innovation. In service infrastructure, the value lies in IT operations and services that are delivered with maximum reliability and availability. It focuses on standardization...

Org Charts and Architecture Management

Every organization has one. For some, it can lead directly to a path of enlightenment. Others may use its rigid structure to create an impenetrable fortress of strength. For the unfortunate, it becomes an inescapable labyrinth of hopelessness. Yes, it’s the org…

Finding the value in SOA

SOA is certainly not the only architectural approach that your enterprise will require. But it can smooth the alignment and adoption of other into an EA framework. So rather than reinvent the wheel, organizations should consider using a well-established framework such as…

The Rule of EA Governance

There is a clear distinction between Enterprise Architecture, as described by the architect, and Enterprise Architecture as implemented by the enterprise.  I would like to posit the following as a fundamental principle that describes the difference: All Enterprise Architecture will be implemented…
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