Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Adrian Grigoriu The Sharing success comes from increased satisfaction of both the client and participant. Sharing is in fact advantageous to all parties because:
The Sharing enterprise is
– created quickly out of pre-existing assets and workforce without l…
Sharing is a new enterprise business model… The key Sharing differentiator today is the digital technology. Yet another impact of the digital on the enterprise. Uber and Airbnb are made possible by the two way web, network ubiquity and mobile technol…
To avoid the ever debate on the scope of Enterprise Architecture, IT vs the enterprise, I call Enterprise Modelling, rather than Enterprise Architecture (EA), the enterprise wide architecture, that covers business, technology and people.
If you wish to employ Business Models in your enterprise analysis and strategy specification, you may first have to understand what that is. A Business Model shows how a company goes about its business to be able to return value/profit. Repr…
In the old days I would have liked to have an idiot’s manual to guide me through the steps of modelling the Architecture of the Enterprise I was working for. I am not talking about the practices of organization, risks, requirements… which fram…
To minimise risks, costs, effort, failures plan for an opportunistic transition that should introduce services when existing platforms or technology turn obsolete, need costly upgrades or the transition produces minimum disruption to operation.
Autonomy should work both ways, for both the enterprise and the unit. And interfaces are key for autonomy,
Autonomy empowers the enterprise departments to organise and govern themselves. Hence, an enterprise organised in autonomous units would promote motivation, stimulate initiative, manage resources and take ownership of deliverables more responsibly.
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Typically, enterprises are structured around a combination of functions, products, geography… And the usual enterprise representation is the organisation chart that says so little about the enterprise, not even the products.&n…
In a Service Based Enterprise, the organizational units would deliver services for which they are contractually bound to.
The enterprise would bother no more about the internal organization of the units or their inner governance as long as they do not …
The paradigm change is that the enterprise contracts and pays for a service rather than for the administration of a team/circle that delivers it. The enterprise signs a contract with a service delivering entity rather than separate contracts with team/…
Holacracy is at times over specified, over-prescribed. Is it really part of an organizational design method to establish rules for meetings as it is the case for Holacracy?