Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Richard Veryard PreludeLet’s start with the tweets.
@RSessions: Enterprise Architecture is a tool, not a solution.
@Cybersal: I agree EA is not a solution; however I prefer to characterise it as a discipline or a practice. A tool seems too mechanistic.
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#entarch @Cybersal found a useful article in MIT Sloan Management Review What Happens When You Outsource Too Much? by Francesco Zirpoli and Markus C. Becker (December 2010).
In my view, the title of the article doesn’t do justice to the content. There…
#entarch Following my blogpost on EA and the Big Picture, @carlhaggerty asked does it matter if EA disappears into a core C-Suite competency?
Clearly it matters to some people, especially those who have committed themselves and their careers to the id…
#entarch Some people think that what uniquely characterizes enterprise architects is that they are the ones who “get the big picture”.
If this is true, it is because EAs have differently wired brains to the rest of humanity, or because their positi…
#entarch #orgintelligence In an earlier post, I pointed out the architectural trade-off between Complexity and Power. There may be a choice between a simple-but-inefficient solution and a more sophisticated solution, and this choice has important struc…
@ruskin147 is in California to meet the networking pioneers, including Stuart Brand.
In 1985, Stuart Brand was one of the founders of an online community called the Well. As Rory reports, the Well provided “inspiring stories of the power of online com…
Interesting article today about Andrew Zambelli, former aide to Mario Cuomo and now appointed aide to his son Andrew Cuomo, describing him as a “conceptual architect” [Capital New York, 14 December 2010]. He will be responsible for the oversight and st…
@tonyrcollins asks if any healthcare IT system can provide a Single Source of Truth (SSOT)? In his blog (13 December 2010), he discusses a press release claiming that an electronic healthcare record system from Cerner Millennium Solutions is a “single …
In some recent posts, I have talked about embedding different forms of intelligence in a business process. Intelligence may make the process more powerful, or it may merely make it more internally efficient. But in the examples I’ve looked at so far, t…
@inmagic ‘s Phil Green suggests an Enterprise 2.0 Best Practice: Unite Internal Collaboration with External Communication (CMS Wire Nov 29, 2010)
As he points out, internal and external are often disconnected. Clearly, different tools are appropriat…
#entarch #ea2010 @uoaeao tweeted
“The most immediate and effective way to reduce costs is to use #entarch to stop or delay projects that are spending money.” My first thought was that using enterprise architecture for this purpose wasn’t likely to be…
@JohnSchlesinger asks What has the enterprise architect ever done for us? (@AtosOriginBlog, November 2010)
John criticizes the IBM strategy in the late 1980s, especially the emphasis on Systems Application Architecture (SAA) and the neglect of CICS an…