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Organizations with a strong inspiring vision of who they want to become have higher levels of performance than purely goal-based organizations. If you aren’t sure you need to create a vision statement for you organization, go back and read “Why Most Organizations Have Weak Visions.” A powerful vision statement clarifies management’s aspirations. It sets broad […]
What do we mean by the term ‘process’? What is a process? For that matter, what isn’t a process? This came up in a great Skype-conversation today with Kevin Smith, creator of PEAF (the Pragmatic EA Framework), about yet another LinkedIn somewhat-circular…
Sometimes I feel really split brained! On the one hand I am thinking about the importance of controlling data, data quality, data schema, etc. On the other hand, I realize I can’t! So the DBA in me would like the data to be all orderly and controlled -…
Sometimes I feel really split brained! On the one hand I am thinking about the importance of controlling data, data quality, data schema, etc. On the other hand, I realize I can’t! So the DBA in me would like the data to be all orderly and controlled -…
Five years ago today, I moved from being a senior staff member (Enterprise Architect) to the Manager, Business Application Services and Enterprise Architecture at BCIT. Over the past few weeks, I met with many colleagues and friends that I work with for a farewell coffee or lunch. (See my earlier post: My New Adventure) […]
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Current mainstream enterprise-architecture [EA] is broken, more broken and yet more broken, and has real problems with wickedness. But what can we do about this? How can we mend EA, make it unbroken? As in those posts linked-to above, I’d…
I promised to start exploring GLUE Journeys on the Island of Do Business Defence, and tried to apply a story like construct. I underestimated the difficulties I have to write that story like, so I decided to change the concept. Total dry approach now I…
Again I fail to continue writing on the GLUE Journeys as promised but jump into another hot topic: Innovation. Actually I do not really think that it is new knowledge, but for whatever reason it seems to be hot. i personally utilize the knowledge Evere…
How do we cope with the wickedness of enterprise-architecture? I don’t mean here the implicit wickedness of people promoting term-hijacks and other half-baked notions as ‘the truth’ of enterprise-architecture – though heaven-knows there’s enough of that wickedness around. I also…
The SOA-paradigm has gained wide spread adoption over the last few years. With good reason: it has long been recognized that decoupling application logic from the specific way/ place where it is implemented has numerous benefits. In the same vain: port…
Most Common Words used in EA Voices (without normal stop words): business (1519) enterprise (1509) architecture (1486) time (1071) need (1006) new (972) work (950) way (949) people (918) information (833) management (825) process (811) value (785) different (760) based (737) change (736) technology (726) good (707) systems (684) 00
Yesterday I saw a message on Twitter which created an emotional reaction of mine. I tried to answer in 140 letters (the magic of twitter), but failed. I was not able to express what I really felt and did not made my point, which caused (of course) anot…