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Enabling Better Communications with Physical EA Models

A pretty BMW car.  photo credit: marco_dmoz Physical Models: Powerful visual cues for enabling better communicationsBMW's innovation centre in Munich is designed with deep considerations on how to encourage innovation and collaborations between employees.  One key feature of the building is full…

EA Heuristic #3: Talk to more blind men to know the elephant

(this article is part of the series "12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting")photo credit: Murilo Morais Enterprises are like often like elephants and the enterprises’ employees and stakeholders are like blind men in the classic story; they are each touching a different part of…

The Open Group Cannes blog series (2/6)

During the Open Group Conference in Cannes I delivered a presentation on “Successfully implementing EA with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®”.Moreover, I joined as expert into a very interesting ‘ask the expert panel session’ with good questions from the audience. This resulted in 6…

The Open Group Cannes blog series (1/6)

During the Open Group Conference in Cannes I delivered a presentation on “Successfully implementing EA with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®”.Moreover, I joined as expert into a very interesting ‘ask the expert panel session’ with good questions from the audience. This resulted in 6…

Event Distribution and Event Processing

I have recently been involved in several discussions (sales opportunities perhaps), where the answer seems to be, "We need a CEP engine". Of course if one chooses solutions based on products there's something wrong. And then working with the sales force, I…

Who's Afraid of a Few Big Companies Taking Over the World?

Just came across a nice little provocative argument from Pankaj Ghemawat of IESE Business School Barcelona. He writes in his latest HBR article titled, "Who's Afraid of a Few Big Companies Taking Over the World". While I understand the principles which Pankaj…

EA Heuristics #1: Looking for gaps? Push from top, guide from bottom.

photo credit: metropolitan police(this article is part of the series "12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting")When looking for gaps in the current stage architecture, a useful approach is start by “pushing from the top”—start with the enterprise’s strategic objectives, then use the objectives’…

12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting

photo credits: i k oLessons learnt as I reflect on a recent four-month Enterprise Architecting (EA) exercise.   In the exercise, a 4-person team helped an organization map out where the organization was at, where it wanted to be and how it could…

Architecture of my life

Photo Credit: Giampaolo MacorigI finally got started on something that I had wanted to do for a long time: apply Enterprise Architecture know-how to help me plan my life.  I have used EA techniques to help organisations and projects better understand where…
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