McKinsey & Co on Enterprise Architects in the digital transformation (i)
Everyone understands the concept of the Schematics of an Enterprise and its utility for all stakeholders.
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Everyone understands the concept of the Schematics of an Enterprise and its utility for all stakeholders.
It’s a good summary of what the EA community has debated in discussion groups, blogs… for the last ten years or so.
Reduce the architecture debt, do Design Thinking in the EA context…
You cannot change the business and technology architecture without adapting the people organisation as well.
…document the key “to dos” in one page and you have the strategic directions.
In the set up phase the first modelling effort should be dedicated to the selection, design and documentation of the EA Framework…
The first EA iteration would deliver the one page enterprise business architecture.
The business case will help you sell the EA to the enterprise in the financial terms that business can understand.
There is plenty of talk of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Design Thinking (DT), but how do they relate?
Since Design Thinking is defined in the enterprise context and hence in the scope of Enterprise Architecture, to avoid specularion, we’d better cl…
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Perhaps, we should cease blaming the enterprise architect who, allegedly, lives in solitary confinement in an ivory tower. As if by choice.
But true, the architect, like Sissif, has to push the EA development uphill every single day&n…
To understand, communicate, fix, improve or transform an enterprise, you need its integrated blueprint, the Enterprise Model.
So what about Google’s eight skills to look for in its managers.
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