Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
#OMG #BAWG The Object Management Group Business Architecture Working Group has identified five key views of a business.
the Business Strategy view (“What the Business Wants”)
the Business Capabilities view (“What the Business Does”)
the Value Stream vi…
When I said I was moving on, in the previous post ‘Time for this on toad to move on‘, yes, I was serious: I’m moving out of mainstream ‘enterprise’-architecture. Am I giving up? No, not at all. Am I actually leaving the entire enterprise-architecture domain? Nope. (Sorry to disappoint a few folks there, but you’ll […]
@mkplantes sees the demise of Kodak as an intelligence failure.
Put yourself in their Kodak leaders’ chairs for a moment and consider the four expectations of a leadership team and, more importantly, consider the speed with which they had to wo…
Strange things, metaphors: they kind of have a life of their own sometimes… My mother tells the story of the first house she and my father lived in, some small place way up in the north of England somewhere, back when my elder brother was still a babe-in-arms. The garden they’d inherited there was an […]
Steve Jobs talks about death”About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. … It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.” [Stanford University, June 2005]
But accordi…
Steve Jobs talks about death”About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. … It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.” [Stanford University, June 2005]
But accordi…
How can we ensure that the ideas and models that we use are appropriate to the context? What methods can we use to evaluate new ideas? Perhaps more to the point, how do we protect ourselves from ideas that won’t fit in our architecture-ecosystem? This extends the previous post on ‘Coping with the toad-in-the-road‘, where […]
Enterprise Transformation is a long, slow, steady process. In some cases the projects we are working on may not seem to be very transformative but taken together with other projects, over a period of time, a transformation, for better or worse, will ha…
Google vs Amazon (again). @davidsprott reckons Steve Yegge’s rant is spot on. Steve Yegge is a software engineer who used to work for Amazon and now works for Google, despite the supposedly accidental publication of a long and opinionated rant (his wor…
As more enterprises engage in public, private and hybrid cloud computing services, they face new sets of security and compliance challenges. As a result of the rapid transition and growing capabilities of the cloud, enterprises must evolve their securi…
As more enterprises engage in public, private and hybrid cloud computing services, they face new sets of security and compliance challenges. As a result of the rapid transition and growing capabilities of the cloud, enterprises must evolve their securi…
It’s now fourteen years since CBDI was formed. In the early days our mission was, as a think tank, to evangelize new ideas of modularity, separation, contract based and service orientation. We had a vision then; it was the enterprise, every enterpr…