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Adrian Grigoriu EA describes the operation of the Enterprise and the roadmap to achieve its goals. It offers a view of the enterprise value chains, business functions and flows, technology systems and organisation, all aligned. Beside analysing, improving an…
Continued from previous post in response to the BIZZdesign’s reply.
See “The Value of Reference Architectures”.
I had to reply to this article because, I was surprised that, after decades of EA, the article somehow, succeeds to mix up such funda…
See this post of BIZZdesign on “The value of Reference Architectures”.
First, I’ll have to point out the distinction between reference architectures (such as Frameworx of TM Forum) and architecture frameworks (such as DoDAF…). since …
Alpha strategies posted “Strategy vs Business Models: What’s the Difference?” Their “answer is that strategy models show the strategies of a business while business models show the interactions between strategies and the uncontroll…
Technical debt, in the enterprise architecture context, measures the departure of the current enterprise organization from the good practices of enterprise architecture.
The more exceptions to the good rules of practice, the …
This is a long comment for the HBR blog on “Why your analytics are failing you” that states that “the real challenge is recognizing that using big data and analytics to better solve problems and/or make decisions obscures the organizational realit…
There are a lot of articles floating around about the role of the CIO. Is there a problem? The questions seems to be about where is the role going. Clearly, something is on people’s mind. But what is happening? The CIO world is stirred, if …
The title of “business designer” grows en vogue today.Please refer to my previous post and comments as well about the role of the business architect. In the strict sense of the words, there is no such role as business designer, because a…
This is a long comment for the HBR blog on “Why your analytics are failing you” that states that “the real challenge is recognizing that using big data and analytics to better solve problems and/or make decisions obscures the organizational reality tha…
We all agree that, ideally, there should be only one enterprise architecture (EA) that describes the overall business operation, technology and organization of the enterprise in integration. And to be able to properly operate cross-enterprise, the…
Who cares about architecture? Since the architecture concept comes to the enterprise from technology rather than business, it currently means little to the business people.
Is there a business architecture body of knowledge?The busines…
It’s a question we hear much too often since it is supposed to render EA more acceptable to business. The answers though add to the confusion about EA because EA often ends up being compared to management consultancy or in any case, appears to step int…