Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
After a session with Mark Paauwe one summer evening, I determined to use my newly found technique on my client immediately the next day.The technique involves looking at the phenomena that annoys you, stakeholders, and users at large. By extrapolating …
In my last post I have touched the concept of people in GLUE and where people are connected to the more computable part of GLUE:As promised I will not touch people in this post, but start writing about GLUE Journeys. But then again as with all my other…
This is Part III of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Parts I and II can be viewed here and here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out…
This is Part III of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Parts I and II can be viewed here and here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out…
#orgintelligence I found an interesting chart on Gillian Stamp’s blog.
The chart illustrates two observations
“Organizational well-being depends on the interplay between challenges
and decision-making capabilities.”
“Where challenges exceed …
In my last post I explored GLUE Roles and Responsibilities. Each GLUE Discipline does have a specific Role:A Role is assigned following the VARISC methodology to a GLUE Delivery which produces a GLUE Deliverable. GLUE Deliveries are organized in GLUE D…
What’s the source of business-motivation? How are people motivated to do their work at work? If Dan Pink is right, the answer isn’t much to do with money – at least, not for anything more than the most robotic kinds…
Nick Malik, in this post discusses the business architecture definition of the BizBOK 2.1. For completion, the BizBOK 2.1 definition cited is: “A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to…
One of our more frequent challenges in enterprise-architecture is to get The Usual Suspects to understand that, yes, there are indeed many other kinds of technology than just the IT – and even if whatever-it-is has a computer in it,…
In my last post about GLUE Delivery I have put some focus on the delivery which is from my point the key for everything I do. Deliver, Getting things done, create something, add something. You name it.“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is …
I’m putting together my presentations for TechEd New Zealand, one of which is titled “Business Architecture for Non Architects.” In that presentation, I need to provide a good, SHORT, definition of business architecture. S…
Why is it so hard for enterprise-architects and other generalists to get employment as generalists – despite the evident very real need for such skills in the workplace? And what part do current business-paradigms play in this problem? At first glance…