Troux 2011: Great Expectations: Ready to Move the Dial in the New IT Landscape

This presentation was given by Angela Yochem, a Business Information Executive with Dell. Some trends: Reduction in size of IT. Move from centralized, global IT to a more decentralized model. Successful response to these trends require a strong, empowered EA team. Many companies are going through business transformations, yet we are still in a state […]

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The Wisdom of the Iron Age

Interesting BBC programme In Our Time this morning about The Dawn of the Iron Age. Why and how did people start making ornaments and tools and weapons from copper and tin and lead? Because the ores were shiny, and it was easy to see how they could b…

Silos, what silos?

Following on from my blog on “Beware the new silos!” today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based too…

Architecture Fit and Fitness

In discussing how enterprise architecture supports merger, acquisition, partnership, and other evaluation opportunities with some attendees at the Troux 2011 conference this morning, I used two terms: fit and fitness. Fit is how well things align between the two companies/products. for example, what do the capability maps look like? Did things get sliced up in […]

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The Wisdom of the Iron Age

Interesting BBC programme In Our Time this morning about The Dawn of the Iron Age. Why and how did people start making ornaments and tools and weapons from copper and tin and lead? Because the ores were shiny, and it was easy to see how they could b…

Silos, what silos?

Following on from my blog on “Beware the new silos!” today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based too…

Schools of Enterprise Architecture: Ideas of Architecting the Business, the Organization and the Technology

Introduction Enterprise Architecture as a concept can be defined as many different things, shapes and practices. Through my studies of the concept of Enterprise Architecture, I have discovered that there are as many definitions of Enterprise Architecture as there are … Continue reading