Culture club

To set my thoughts in perspective I came up with the “brilliant” idea of describing what I think of as designing The Happy People Business. This is part two in an expanding series of posts where I’ll elaborate on this topic. The Manifest One could call this the story of the architecture or one could […]

Considering enabling individuals to realize their dreams

The basic vision: Enable individuals to realize their dreams. What design considerations would we need to think through to create a thriving culture and maintain a minimal viable management system The investors perspective: How do we create and sustain an investment when every individual is their own company? The architects perspective: How do we design […]

Let the Chief Architect take the lead during 2013

The Chief Architect have an excellent opportunity to step up and take the reigns during 2013. To aid in focusing the effort of the Chief Architect there is The Wheel of Leadership and The Art of Enterprise Architecture to focus mind and body. Continuing to strengthen the support of the Chief Architect let me introduce The […]

The Art of Enterprise Architecture has been published

Yippee! After so many years it’s finally available on the shelves (well at least the digital shelves). If anyone would come across a copy on a book shelf in a physical book store please comment a picture to this post and you’ll make me a very happy architect. Thanks a million to all of you […]

Consumable architectures

Each dimension has its own architecture. Each architecture has its own lifecycle. Each architecture is part of the whole. Each architecture can be related to a set of solutions. Each solution can be related to a set of architectures. Careful consideration must be taken to the relative speed to which any one architecture is consumed […]

Publishing The Art of Enterprise Architecture

As some of you may be aware of I with the help of a wonderful set of people has been reviewing the final script for the book The Art of enterprise Architecture (working title). The plan is to have the book ready to be delivered in time for Christmas, just so you may all either […]

How would you know that the architecture is right?

Not a simple question to answer, but perhaps we can find some guidance in Aldo Leopold’s statement “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tend otherwise.” Transforming that statement into architecture for the enterprises could be done in many […]