A practical set of EA deliverables

A question on LinkedIn recently reminded me that, as the team leader for Segment Architecture in my former EA team, I was accountable for identifying a core set of deliverables for the team.  The idea was that we could focus on defining…

Don’t leave the EA framework at the door

I post here in response to this post of Gartner's: "Enterprise architects: Please leave your framework at the door".Please don't, that is, leave the EA framework at the door. You do it at your own peril.Because a good framework is like the...

Five Attributes of Strategic Thinkers

In today’s agile, fast-twitch, act-fail-iterate environment, strategic thinking often gets a bad name. One entrepreneur friend of mine told me: “Strategic thinking is just an excuse to slack off.” If you are an internet startup, have  little revenue, and no profits, then…

Healthcare Transformation – Let’s be Provocative

by Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS Recently, I attended a one-day healthcare transformation event in Toronto. The master of ceremony, a renowned doctor, asked the speakers to be provocative in how to tackle the issues in healthcare and healthcare delivery … Continue…

Enterprise Architecture: Measuring its success.

The effectiveness of an operational Enterprise Architecture should be measured just like any other business initiative that has been put into production. Unless there is a demonstrable benefit to the business it will always be regarded as an overhead and eventually no…

What are Your Services?

We discussed Who is Your Customer?  in my previous post, now it is time to start to think about what services we deliver to our community.  After running an exercise on identifying our customers and the categories they fit in, we started…

Digital Disruption: Lose the Constraints

Digital Disruption Lesson #2: Lose the constraints that restrict your thinking. This is the second in a five part series on Digital Disruption. Greenfields, whiteboards, and blue skies; these are the ingredients of an architect’s daydreams. The solutions I can construct when…
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