Glossary
A collection of Enterprise Architecture terms and definitions from a variety of sources: EA3 Cube, Introduction to Enterprise Architecture, The Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEAF-II), ISO 42010:2011 and TOGAF 9. 00
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Manage Risks, But Don’t Eliminate Them
When companies value stability over innovation, some risks increase: they risk slowly losing market share and fading into the background of their industry. So what do we do? The solution lies in the understanding that effective R&D governance cannot, and should not, distill projects into a single number. Here are five ways to assess and communicate risk in your portfolio.
Software Trends Impacting (Enterprise) Architects in 2023
Software is increasingly playing a critical role in the efficiency and effectiveness of all work processes in various industries. Over the last decades, we’ve seen that software has a disruptive power with the ability to create or make some jobs obsolete. Not only technology industries but end markets too, are impacted by software. It’s a…
The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud
The world has been getting a lot more complex, most…
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Big Data Analytics – Unlock Breakthrough Results: Step Two (2)
This post is part of a larger series to provide a detailed set of steps you can take to unlock breakthrough results in Big Data Analytics. This step addresses identifying the type and nature of the operating models used within the analytic community along with the most important capability each demands.
What’s the scope of a business-model?
I’ve long been a fan of Alex Osterwalder’s work. There can be no doubt that he’s had a huge impact on business-architecture – particularly for startups – with tools such as his Business Model Canvas [BMCanvas] and, more recently, Value…
JEA XL: Journal of Enterprise Architecture 2013-1
Back in November 2012, as chief editor of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, I faced an ebb in qualified submissions and decided to postpone the next number. I solicited more submissions and soon decided that a way to make up for a missing number would be to release an extra thick “double-issue” – JEA XL. Almost …read more
Metaframeworks in practice, Part 5: Enterprise Canvas
What frameworks do we need, to link across all domains and layers of the enterprise-architecture space? How can we create such frameworks? This is the fifth and final item in this series of worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to…
On human ‘applications’ in EA models
In enterprise-architecture, how should we model a human-based ‘application’ such as a customer-service line or reCaptcha or Amazon‘s ‘Mechanical Turk‘? [Note: on a first glance, this all looks really simple. As soon as we delve anywhere beneath the surface, though, it’s…
‘No jobs for generalists’ – a summary
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…
Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [2]
Why do enterprise-architects and other generalist disciplines find it so challenging to prove the value of their work? Why does it seem that there are ‘no jobs for generalists’? And what can we do in practice to resolve this challenge?…
Business Architecture is Business Performance Management with Engineering Rigor
I’ve been performing a Business Architect role within the Enterprise Architecture function over the past few years and wanted to share some opinions I’ve formed to help jog, and possibly advance, the thinking in the space of Business Archit…