Adrian Campbell

Enterprise Architecture and Systems Thinking – by Ian Glossop

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Enterprise Architecture is a young, immature discipline that produces models to guide the development of an enterprise. It is generally recognised to date back to the late 1980s or early 1990s and the work of Zachman, Spewak and others though it really took-off in the late 1990s and early years of the 21st Century.  But methodological disciplines do not emerge complete […]

Enterprise Architecture, Dynamic and Distinctive Capabilities – by Ian Glossop

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Enterprise Architecture, as an activity in organisations and ‘discipline of praxis’, is about producing rigorous, explicit models of the enterprise to be used in the organisation’s decision-making processes. Its purpose is to enable the organisation to make better decisions about where to invest its precious resources to change the enterprise for the better.  [Note: The “Enterprise” and […]

Elevator Speech for Enterprise Architecture

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What is a good elevator speech for Enterprise Architecture? I usually say something like the following: “Enterprise Architecture is a strategic business capability that provides benefits to a business for: Digital strategy exploitation Cloud strategy implementation Business and IT Consolidation Business Transformation Cost reduction Business Process Improvement and innovation Exploiting opportunities for value creation Facilitating […]

Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation

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Business transformation involves significant changes to all areas of an enterprise. It focuses on the future strategies. These includes strategies, business models, operating models, business processes, information & data, systems, products, business services and channels. These are exactly the deliverables developed by enterprise architecture to understand the current state of an enterprise, to envision and […]

Cognitive Dissonance

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I was reading this today: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ea-matters/is-there-an-enterprise-architect-paradox-surely-is-57728?rss=1 It is a good analysis of the cognitive dissonance between what Enterprise Architects should be doing and the role and situation they often actually find themselves in. The term Enterprise Architect has been hijacked for far too long. An Enterprise Architect should indeed be a senior leadership role, ideally reporting to […]

Intersection and branding

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I’m reading a great new book called Intersection: How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap Between Business, Technology, and People by Milan Guenther The book discusses modern Enterprise Architecture perspectives like the Outside In approach and provides a holistic design lead approach that is focus more on the customer than on the underlying applications, technology and infrastructure. […]

Enterprise Architecture Lifecycle

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The Enterprise Architecture team has a lifecycle of its own, but doesn’t operate in a vacuum. The Enterprise Architecture capability fails if it is seen too much as blue sky thinking in an ivory tower. The Enterprise Architecture team will interact closely with all the other management processes in an organisation, especially the IT management […]