Announcing: Third Annual Enterprise Summer School

Week 31 is for students and researchers as well as practitioners in the field of enterprise architecture, who want to spend a pracademic week together and share and learn more about EA. 
Dates: 30 July – 3 Aug 2012
Location: IT University of Copenhagen
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Themes:

EA as a Discipline and a […]

Management Architects and Enterprise Architecture

Gary Hamel’s new book, What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation, is marketed as “an impassioned plea” to “reinvent management as we know it” and “rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, […]

Journal of Enterprise Architecture, February 2012

The February number of Journal of Enterprise Architecture (Volume 8, Number 1) will be published early next week, and be available for download by members of the Association of Enterprise Architects.
FEATURES
Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze
Architect in the Spotlight: Mark Perry
ARTICLES
SEA Change: […]

Enterprise Architecture Lecture Series

Imagine you wanted to run a lecture series or course on Enterprise Architecture. Let’s say you ended up with 6 themes, such as:

The Alignment Trap
The EA Profession and the Discipline
The Value of Enterprise Architecture
Architecting Work Practice
Living Enterprise and Metropolis
Publishing and […]

Scientific Management 2.0

I would normally just ignore stuff like Adam Deane’s blog on last week’s IRM conferences, but couldn’t help tweeting a reaction, and then another. I don’t really want to start a flame war, but just got offended by his personal attacks.
Having said that, I would like some comments on my “BPM = […]

… and the winner is

The #entarch league was the first public round of The EA Game, and after 6 rounds, the game has now ended. There were 22 active teams playing, and the final scores were:
Congratulations to team deathstar! And thanks to all for playing.
Morten has been working on the game engine, and we will now […]

Launching The EA Game

I announced The EA Game in a recent Twitter status update:
Shall We Play A Game? Introducing The EA Game http://gotze.eu/projects/the-ea-game/ #entarch #systemthinking
I forgot to blog the link too: The EA Game project page/announcement. Still a good background read, but there’s more:
The #entarch […]

Journal of Enterprise Architecture February 2011

Journal of Enterprise Architecture
February 2011 – Volume 7, Number 2
Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze
Architect in the Spotlight: Philip Allega
Articles
A conceptual framework for architecture principles
Erik Proper and Danny Greefhorst
A Process Driven Approach to Modelling Leadership
David Tuffley […]

Aggregated EA wisdom

I have launched a new service called EA Blogs, which is a thematic aggregator of enterprise architecture blog feeds. A ‘planet‘, or as Dave Winer would call it, a river. Or whatever. The EA Blogs engine fetches new blog entries from around 20 enterprise architects within an hour after they are […]