Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Janne J. Korhonen Information Technology is dead, long live Information Technology! Traditional IT departments are said to be dying. However, the amount and importance of information is not decreasing. Quite in contrary. New digital business poses new requirements as to…
I have earlier suggested that Enterprise Architecture be designed and built around organizational accountability levels and be divided vertically into three distinct yet interlinked architectures. It can be further argued that all IT work in organizati…
In their seminal work on human and organizational learning, Chris Argyris and Donald Schön (1974, 1978) make a distinction between espoused theories and theories-in-use. Espoused theories are accounts of a person’s or an organization’s actions given to others, while theories-in-use…
I recently co-authored a journal paper [1] on Enterprise Architecture, in which we propounded that architectural work in an enterprise be designed and built around organizational accountability levels and be divided into three distinct yet interlinked …
In his book “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built,” Stewart Brand notes that building architectures are mainly designed from the spatial perspective, whereas the temporal dimension receives less attention. Building on the notion of She…
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” This maxim, attributed to Albert Einstein, bears particular relevance to how problems should be approached. There is not a simple solution to every problem. Simple problems can be solv…
Can you feel the pace increasing? Is it hard to keep up with the speed? Is your organization too rigid, or do you feel in over your head yourself? You know you should be more agile and you may even…
“The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime…” — The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded…
The agile movement has traditionally focused on agile software development at the team level. Team-based approaches, such as Scrum, focus on delivering day-to-day customer value, but do not, per se, ensure a strategic approach to business agility at th…
In his best seller book Getting Things Done, David Allen identifies six vertically arrayed perspectives from which to define work. Using an aerospace analogy, he recognizes the following “altitudes”: 50,000+ feet: Life 40,000 feet: Vision 30,000 feet: …
Link: http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/01/when-the-ground-rocks-it-must-flex.php From Anatomy of Agile Enterprise 00
In my previous post, I expounded upon Hoebeke’s (1994) notion that work is vertically organized as recursively interlinked work system domains and postulated a link between these structural domains and the ontological domains of the Cynefin framework (…