Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Adrian Grigoriu It is the enterprise strategy that matters rather than the business strategy alone. The enterprise strategy is the outcome of the harmonization of the management vision with the business functions’ strategies, including information technology and human…
The enterprise is stable at its core. It has been so for centuries. The invariability of value chains and process frameworks stand proof of that. Key business strategies are also few and well known: diversification, expansion in markets and creation of…
Good employees get engaged if they feel they have a contribution, that they are empowered.Besides, they have to feel that the company has vision and direction and listens to them.Employees have first to respect the company, not so much for its brand bu…
Conflict at work often appears when competent people come to challenge the status quo, the inertia, amongst other reasons.Also a factor is the poor organisation of the enterprise with confusing roles and overlaying responsibilities that create tension …
Should a leader be pessimistic? Or should he not acknowledge that? It looks like the impression on others is what matters.
Should then deception be employed to inspire optimism? Deception conveys a false sense of security thus postponing the realiz…
In this article of HBR, Roger Martin argues that “Strategy is iterative protyping”. Is it really so?If strategy is considered at the product level prototyping is rather normal practice. In any serious enterprise, there usually are different e…
The three “options”, “diversify”, “develop new services” and “expand globally” are rather standard generic, academic, business school choices, valid for and considered by most enterprises.They look like strategy categories rather than strategies themse…
I had a discussion once with a Director of Finance:
‘I think we already have an architecture of the enterprise’ he said, ‘as we have today clear processes in Finance; otherwise, how could the enterprise work today? Why do we need then to spend on…
– 1. What is EA and what is its scope? What is Business Architecture? – 2. What are the deliveries one can expect? And how would they look like. – 3. How do you design the EA?The key few steps. – 4. What would be the key …
We can easily generate automatically monster diagrams inputting at random all we know about the enterprise entities and their relationships.
“How to document your EA”, is the theme of a discussion thread in the LinkedIn “Enterprise Architecture Forum”. You have to request to be a member though to get access, if I am right.
There must be a good reason though why these kind of discussions for…