Blueprinting Key Deliverables (from ASAP 7.0)
I thought this might be a useful guide or overview to think over or discuss the blueprinting process. it’s a decent start anyway. From the ASAP 7.0 Methodology Click for […]
Alex Matthews
Some Lessons For Enterprise From Startup Culture
Extracted from Re/Code “Big Tech Is Going Down” with my comments in brackets. “The pace and nature of change in the core underlying technologies, product development, selling models and buying […]
KryptoKit Lets You Pay In Bitcoin Instantly On Almost Any Webpage
Bitcoin continues to creep forward in terms of credibility and accessibility. I recently signed up to mtgox.com and it took almost 4 weeks for my account to be activated but […]
How To Understand The Difference Between Value-Proposition and a Product or Service
One of my startup heroes Steve Blank wrote in a blog post that “value proposition is the fancy name for your product or service” It is with some trepidation that […]
Types of Cost
When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types […]
Why it is so hard for leaders to manage change?
From the Washington Post “I don’t think people resist change per se, but they resist the stress that change causes”. “is about helping people get in a growth mindset, as […]
Tom Graves – The Business of the Business
An article by Tom Graves defining the scope of “business” every organisation is also ‘a business’ the business of an organisation is whatever the organisation does, for whatever business-reasons and […]
New Enterprise Architecture Blog – www.enterprise-advocate.com
Please note that this Enterprise Architecture Blog has been replaced by www.enterprise-advocate.com
This page will remain online however all new Enterprise Architecture blog posts will be posted on The Enterprise Advocate web site www.enterprise-advo…
Enterprise Architecture & Complexity Theory
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet “Complexity theory predicts that we cannot rely on predictions.” This post is a series of excerpts from the following brilliant presentation on Complexity Theory. […]
Enterprise Architecture Benefits
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet Here is a free, un-formatted slide deck that describes some of the key benefits that can be gained from applying Enterprise Architecture. It can […]
Enterprise Architecture & Systems Thinking
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet (See also the Enterprise Advocate’s post on Enterprise Architecture & Complexity Theory) I just discovered this brilliant presentation by Dr Russ Ackoff. In it he […]
Enterprise Architecture Change is Coming. Are You Ready?
There is an impending change coming. In many ways this change is being driven by the move into The Cloud, (the commoditization of IT) and the move to Bring Your […]