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Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

Is the ArchiMate Motivation Layer Useless in Practice?

19 hours ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

Why strategic traceability often looks rigorous—but changes very little

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Busy, Trusted, and Stuck: The Structural Trap of Enterprise Architects

1 week ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

How reliable architects end up firefighting instead of architecting—and why working harder rarely fixes the plateau

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Automatically Generated EA Content—What Is Left for Architects?

2 weeks ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

Where it helps, where it breaks, and where judgment still matters

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Why ROI Is the Wrong First Question in Enterprise Architecture

3 weeks ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

How architectural benefits actually form—before anything can be measured in hard numbers

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Are You an Architect—or a Management Consultant?

4 weeks ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

On enterprise architecture without descriptions, and what happens when architects stop producing models

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Everyone Knows How to Model. So Why Doesn’t Anything Get Modeled?

1 month ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

A practical look at why enterprise architecture content stays thin despite familiar tools and methods

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How Enterprise Architecture Descriptions Are Created in Practice

1 month ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

Why structure still matters, even when the work is iterative

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An Architectural View on Why Work Never Gets Finished

2 months ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

Why Organizations Keep Starting—and What Architects Can Do About Closure

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A Fragmented Writing Year, by Design

2 months ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

Writing, finishing, marketing—and learning to live without a single climax

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How Enterprise Architects Can Use AI Today

2 months ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

Practical ways to improve thinking, content, and analysis—without new tools or setups

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Practical Jump-Start to Enterprise Architecture

3 months ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

How to (re)start enterprise architecture with just enough structure, speed, and common sense to make it work

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What Do Useful Architecture Principles Look Like?

3 months ago by Eetu Niemi, Ph.D.

Clear direction for real decisions in enterprise architecture—not decorative statements

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