Posts Tagged "knowledge"

A week in Tweets: 12-18 December 2010

Finally catching up, though my cold is still such that I’m at risk of dripping into the keyboard – oh joys… Still, I do promise to return to other (more useful?) posts shortly – there’s quite a backlog built up whilst I’ve…

The Power and the Glory

#entarch A debate on Twitter about the power of enterprise architects (enhancing? enabling? influencing?), and another debate about the relationship between architecture and knowledge (does architecture count as a form of knowledge?) led to a question from @StevenvtVeld "An architecture as influencer?…

Enterprise Tempo

An enterprise operates at several different tempi. For example A retail chain has one tempo aligned to the customer visiting the store, a longer tempo for purchasing and logistics, and a longer one still for planning and establishing new stores A military…

Brownfield Requirements Engineering

Some partial and selective notes from the RESG meeting on Brownfield Requirements Engineering, held at BCS headquarters on October 12th 2010. By Richard Veryard. Chairman's IntroductionIan Alexander opened the meeting by pointing out the gulf between the demands of real engineering projects…

Unstructured knowledge

@SFDreverman asks (how) does unstructured knowledge hinder the collective intelligence of a group? To start with, I am slightly puzzled by the word "hinder". Surely unstructured knowledge is usually better than no knowledge at all, although sometimes too much knowledge produces confusion…

Addressing Business/Enterprise Architecture Challenges

Jeff Scott recently posted a blog listing 14 challenges faced by business architects. They really apply to any enterprise architecture practice, and I wanted to call out and comment on a few of them. Lack of business skills in the EA team.…