Strategic clarity questions

An excellent post on anecdote.com.au included 5 questions to help you assess whether your organisation has "strategic clarity".  The question are:

Can the executive team simply and clearly describe the strategy without referring to notes (or powerpoint slides) aided only by simple sketches they make themselves?
Does the executive team all believe in and describe the same strategy?
Do the

Enterprise Architecture Blog Roll

Enterprise architecture blog rollI’m going to post my personal list of great enterprise architecture blog sites here.

First three cabs off the rank are Nik Malik, Jeff Scott and Tom Graves. Currently these three guys are the thought leaders in the fie…

Is Business Architecture the same as Business Context?

Gartner neatly defines the difference between business architecture and business context as:

[E]nterprise business architecture is focused on applying EA practices to the business dimension (people, process, organization and financials) in order to "architect the business."

[B]usiness context is focused on articulating the business strategy, market trends and requirements in order to ensure an

Some applications of enterprise architecture

"EA is now widely accepted s an essential mechanism for ensuring transparency, consistency, compliance and ultimately flexibility/agility in companies and public agencies"

from Robert Winter, & Elmar J Sinz. (2007). Enterprise Architecture. Information Systems and eBusiness Management, 5(4), 357-358.  Retrieved August 29, 2010, from ABI/INFORM Global.

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Enterprise Architecture interview tips

Who wrote the interview questions?

Face it – you are being hired as one of the top technical employees at the prospects company. Who is going to ask you questions? Chances are the interviewer didn’t create them and had somebody else to do this for the…

Key Messages for ‘selling’ enterprise architecture to the CEO

Alex Cullen from Forrester recently posted a blog post entitled "How Would You Sell Business Architecture To Your CEO?". To summarize as briefly as possible, Alex had no prior warning and used the following messages to ‘sell’ EA to the CEO.

EA supports consistency in the execution of corporate strategy
EA supports alignment of IT initiatives to corporate strategy
The use of capability maps