Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Nick Malik In her wildly popular book, Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, Dr. Jeanne Ross describes the use of “core diagrams” in Enterprise Architecture. Shortly after introducing the notion of “operating models”, she provided fou…
Hypothesis: One way to change an organization is to join it. Can we prove or disprove this hypothesis? I had a long lunch with a friend of mine (whom I’ll call Joseph) who was interviewing at an analyst firm that freely shares opinions on Ente…
Today, I gave my talk at the Open Group conference that presents a step-by-step method for creating a core diagram that is useful for agile business. I will blog a series of posts on the topic to share this information to my friends and colleague…
Imagine a future where robots run the hospitals as a way to cut health care costs. A robot ambulance pulls up to the door of the Emergency Room with an unconscious patient. The robot triage nurse connects electrodes to the patient and notic…
My humble apologies to John Godfrey Saxe, whose poem I have modified to add a seventh man, and to make a point… ‘twas seven men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind),…
After a rather protracted discussion on LinkedIn about the Wikipedia article on Enterprise Architecture (blogged here), I took another swing at rewriting the EA article’s opening section. It is far from perfect, but I encourage the folks who ha…
For those folks who don’t normally track the events of the Gamer community, I’d like to share a lesson that every consumer facing business should heed. Social Media has changed the consumer landscape in an irrevocable way. This incident…
I was asked, this week, about a page that I had put into Wikipedia nearly three years ago. Far from being able to take credit for it, I discovered that many of the edits made since I put the page up corrupted it to the point of uselessness. …
Recently, Patrick Gray blogged on TechRepublic that IT has a Chicken and Egg problem. In his post, he describes two mechanisms that CIOs take to become recognized as strategic leaders: a) work in anonymity to demonstrate that the work that they a…
The writing is on the wall. Adobe has abandoned Mobile Flash in favor of HTML5. It is just a matter of time before the Adobe Flash developers switch over to producing HTML5 instead of Flash as a matter of course. With the move to mobi…
I’ve been involved in a number of meetings recently as our IT teams try to come to consensus on answering this question: What is a Roadmap? It’s been a fascinating series of discussions. One thing that strikes me is that most of the int…
I spent a few minutes this evening reading through Tom Graves’ fascinating post Management as ‘just another service’ and it got me thinking of Governance in the organic enterprise. As Tom describes, there are two paradigms of management at play:…