How Enterprise Architecture Descriptions Are Created in Practice
Why structure still matters, even when the work is iterative
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Using the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum to Classify Architectures Descriptions
Previously, I wrote about the need to digitize change capabilities and how enterprise architecture can support and provide value to your organization. I also discussed how to categorize architecture descriptions along different levels…
How Much Enterprise Architecture Is Enough?
How much enterprise architecture is enough? Learn how to match EA effort to complexity, risk, dependencies, and decision impact.
Where Enterprise Architecture Adds the Most Value
Where enterprise architecture creates the most value: strategy execution, major change, coordination, long-term decisions, and complexity.
Architecture Work or Architecture Theater?
Why some enterprise architecture practices create activity without impact—and how to recognize when architecture work does not influence real decisions.
Agentic AI and the Future of Enterprise Architecture
For the past few years, AI in the enterprise has largely been about content generation and assistance. Smarter search. Auto-generated descriptions. Recommendations surfaced at the right moment. These are genuinely useful capabilities, but they…
Why Enterprise Architecture Deliverables Go Unused
Why many enterprise architecture deliverables go unused and how to make architecture artifacts actually support real decisions and create measurable impact.
Enterprise Architecture Has an Identity Problem
Why enterprise architecture means different things in different organizations—and why clarifying its purpose is essential for demonstrating its value.
The Quiet Death of Enterprise Architecture
How enthusiasm slowly turns into routine, routine into neglect—and eventually into irrelevance
Why ROI Is the Wrong First Question in Enterprise Architecture
How architectural benefits actually form—before anything can be measured in hard numbers
Architecture Beyond Domains
Enterprise Architecture has been around for decades. The discipline has profoundly shaped how organizations plan, align, and structure their strategies, systems, and operations.
Frameworks such as the TOGAF Standard define four architecture domains and link them to specific architectural roles. While this approach has helped organizations organize work, it has also unintentionally reinforced rigid silos and limited the true potential of architecture as a holistic organizational capability.
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Practical Jump-Start to Enterprise Architecture
How to (re)start enterprise architecture with just enough structure, speed, and common sense to make it work