Skip to content
  • EA Voices
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Glossary

EA Voices

Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom

  • EA Voices
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Glossary

Vanessa Patrick, Murali Kuppuswamy

Wielding the Power of No

January 16, 2025 by Vanessa Patrick, Murali Kuppuswamy

As this Advisor highlights, purpose is vital for direction and unity. Beyond foundational steps, the ability to say no — empowered refusal — is essential for aligning decisions with organizational identity. By fostering this skill, organizations can en…

Categories #eavoices Tags #eavoices

Please Say No! How Empowered Refusal Upholds Purpose

September 30, 2024 by Vanessa Patrick, Murali Kuppuswamy

Vanessa M. Patrick, author of The Power of Saying No: The New Science of How to Say No That Puts You in Charge of Your Life, and Murali Kuppuswamy explain how saying no can be an essential antidote to purpose washing. Leveraging insights on empowered r…

Categories #eavoices Tags #eavoices

Tags

#eavoices adm analysis Architect Architecture automation behavior blog Blogs business business it alignment career change Cloud community Culture Customer EA emergence enterprise Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture Management Financial Services glue google hardware marketing Microsoft Model Open Group Conference organisation PaaS paradigm platform podcast Power reference architecture research Service Software story tool trust Value vision

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Trust, Independence, and the Context Graph: Reflecting on Q2 2026 | Ardoq
  • AI Security Starts at Square One: Knowing What You Have
  • Why Organisations Forget Why Their Systems Exist
  • Shared Viewpoint Design Techniques in the Age of AI
  • Agentic Process Transformation: A CIO Perspective
  • Author Interview – Kannan Subramanian R: Risk Adjusted Operational Performance
  • Why Observability Data Often Fails to Reach Business Decisions
  • From Standard to System — The Open Footprint® JSON Schema Files
  • Why AI Governance Must Move From Policy to Action Architecture
  • How Four Often-overlooked Forces Shape Architectural Decisions
  • The Detail Behind the Data — The Open Footprint® Standard, Edition 1.0, Part 2: Data Element Dictionary
  • The System Made Sense When We Built It
  • We Are Poised to Democratize the Noosphere
  • Principles by Machine: Why Speed Is Not the Same as Value
  • The Hidden Currency of AI: Why Tokens Make or Break Enterprise Systems
  • Building the Foundation — The Open Footprint® Standard, Edition 1.0, Part 1: Data Model General Requirements
  • Designing an Enterprise-ready Framework for Retail Loss Monitoring
  • Joule In SAP For Me: Conversation Support For Enterprise Architecture
  • Business Models Should Drive Every Context View and Decision
  • Democratize Enterprise Architecture Reporting Through AI
EA Fellows