Beyond Alignment Book

I am pleased to announce that our new book, Beyond Alignment: Applying Systems Thinking in Architecting Enterprises (ISBN 9781848901162) is now available via Amazon.com, and should be available internationally any day now. The book is a comprehensive reader about how enterprises can apply systems thinking in their enterprise architecture practice, for business transformation and for strategic execution. The book’s contributors find […]

Farewell, Journal

The May number of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture is now available to AEA members. This number contains a good blend of fine articles: Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze Architect in the Spotlight: Chris Bird Towards Enterprise Architecture-Infused Organizations By Bjorn Cumps, Stijn Viaene, Pascal Dussart, Joachim Vanden Brande The EARScorecard – An Instrument to Assess the Effectiveness […]

Right Sourcing. Right Now.

Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration is now available for ordering from the publisher (US, UK). The book puts forward the proposal that the modern enterprise must fundamentally rethink its ‘sourcing equation’ to become or remain viable. By presenting perspectives on sourcing from 21 different contributors, the editors hope to enable and inspire readers to make better-informed decisions. […]

EA Voices as a Book

There is an Easter Egg over at EA Voices. From EA Voices: The Book: Dear EA bloggers, Thanks to you, EA Voices is a great source of enterprise architecture wisdom. Now aggregating blogs and writings by over 100 bloggers, the database is rounding 2 million words, and grows with around 100 posts monthly. I think all […]

EA Voices: The Book

Dear EA bloggers, Thanks to you, EA Voices is a great source of enterprise architecture wisdom. Now aggregating blogs and writings by over 100 bloggers, the database is rounding 2 million words, and grows with around 100 posts monthly. I think all this wisdom deserves even more attention than the website and apps can offer, and …

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4th Nordic EA Summer School

Really looking forward to this! Join us! The 4th Nordic EA Summer School (12.-16.8.2013) is for researchers, practitioners, industry experts and executives, development managers, and students as well as others interested in the field of enterprise architecture, who want to spend a week together and share and learn more about EA with more 100 experts and […]

Hybrid architectures

In the first post about my first app, I quoted Tim Berners-Lee, who says “every single web page out there, if you like, is like a computer” with reference to HTML5. I took one single HTML5 web page and turned it into something “like a computer”, namely an app. I mentioned that Gartner talks about hybrid architecture, which “combines the portability of HTML5 […]

CfP DED&M 2014

Digital Enterprise Design & Management (DED&M) 2014 February 2014 – Paris, France Important dates Pre-submission deadline for an optional abstract: July 31, 2013 Submission deadline : September 15, 2013 Acceptance notice for contributions: September 30, 2013 Submission deadline of final version for Proceedings: November 6, 2013 Conference: February, 2014 “Best papers” awards: February, 2014 Scientific […]

CfP TEAR 2013

TEAR 2013 – 8th Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research Workshop The TEAR workshop is organized in conjunction with the 17th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2013) 9-13 September 2013, Vancouver, BC, Canada *** Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2013 *** Motivation The international TEAR workshop series brings together Enterprise Architecture (EA) researchers from different research […]

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

Native Apps Part II: A Hybrid App

Not yet   My app experiment now includes a build for iOS, and the app has been tested on my iPads. However, a certificate/mobileprovision file is needed to install the app on iPad/iPhone (and must be done through iTunes). I have submitted the app to the Apple App Store, where it is now under review. Getting …read more