Posts Tagged "Architecture"

Types of Cost

When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types in accounting terms like those shown in the very good extract from…

Tom Graves – The Business of the Business

An article by Tom Graves defining the scope of “business” every organisation is also ‘a business’ the business of an organisation is whatever the organisation does, for whatever business-reasons and business-drivers every organisation has a business-architecture that describes the structure and story…

Enterprise Architecture & Complexity Theory

Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet “Complexity theory predicts that we cannot rely on predictions.” This post is a series of excerpts from the following brilliant presentation on Complexity Theory. The presentation includes an intriguing discussion of abstractions and models, their role…

Enterprise Architecture Benefits

Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet Here is a free, un-formatted slide deck that describes some of the key benefits that can be gained from applying Enterprise Architecture. It can be freely distributed and used with or without attribution to Alex Matthews…

Enterprise Architecture & Systems Thinking

Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet (See also the Enterprise Advocate’s post on Enterprise Architecture & Complexity Theory) I just discovered this brilliant presentation by Dr Russ Ackoff. In it he discusses Systems Thinking as the key to successful quality improvement programs and…

Top 10 Tips for Data Warehouse Developers

I’ve been reading some excellent material lately about the perilous task of building data warehouse capability. It cause me to reflect on my own learning from running large enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence and advanced analytics projects. So I have thrown together…

A kind of change-of-year review

Yes, it’s that time of year again, when it’s worthwhile reflecting on the old adage that we overestimate what we can do in a week, or a month, but underestimate what we can do in a whole year. Right now I’m in…

The 2010 Enterprise Architecture Awards

Information World published the Enterprise Architecture Awards for 2010 today. Kudos to InfoWorld and Forrester. It is great to see this kind of socialization of EA successes. We often talk about the programs that haven’t worked instead of showcasing all the great…

A week in Tweets: 28 November – 04 December 2010

And finally close to catch-up (if I haven’t slipped again) – another week’s worth of Tweets and links. Lots of new stuff, of course, though nothing new as such in the categories, nor in the ‘Read more…’ link: Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, strategy, innovation…

A week in Tweets: 21-27 November 2010

Almost caught up with the backlog: another week’s-worth of Tweets and links, usual categories, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link: Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and other business-type stuff: thoughttrans: RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth’s Blog: Groping for a marketing solution: TSA and security theater…

Unpacking business-architecture

Just posted on Slideshare my slidedeck ‘Unpacking Business-Architecture‘, from the Biner/OpenGroup enterprise-architecture conference in Stockholm earlier this week. It also represented the first fully public outing for the Enterprise Canvas model, and, in effect, the launch for my latest book, Mapping the…
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