Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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 […]
Chris Potts will return to Denmark on 24-25 January 2013 to give an exclusive seminar: Driving Business Innovation & Performance With Enterprise Architecture: How to be a Highly-Influential Enterprise Architect. Chris Potts has just published the last book in his trilogy of business novels: “FruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology”, “RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary …read more
I have at last found a viable workflow to produce e-books of my various books and blogposts, via Leanpub. There’s one significant constraint in this form of publishing: Leanpub uses Markdown text-files for input, which is a fair bit more limited in its formatting than my books normally use. But that constraint fits well with the […]
While I have not yet embarked on writing another book, I have been published in a second book. The publisher of my book on SOA Governance, Packt Publishing, has released their first compendium title called, “Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt.” It features content from several of their SOA books and authors, including […]
I’ve just finished editing yet another book on enterprise-architecture, and set up its production via my Tetradian Books publishing setup. But you won’t see it on the site, and in fact it may never be published as such in its present form – though you will see it coming out quite soon under someone else’s […]
In work, the Chief Architect receives his instructions from the CEO. Having allocated the people, the Chief Architect must build the team by blending and harmonizing the different elements thereof before marketing their services. After that, comes tactical maneuvering to position the team as a high performing unit within the larger organization. The difficulty of […]
This post is an early draft of a much larger writing. I’m not sure I’ll find the time to elaborate on this part so I’m brain dumping it here as is… I love to ride my MTB and I love to race. Another thing I do is deal with architects of different types (enterprise architects, […]
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Enterprise Architecture for Connected E-Government: Practices and Innovations
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Together with Rien Dijkstra and Pieter van der Ploeg, I have launched a new book project: The Sourcing Initiative: Enabling Collaboration. Read more about it on the new website, sourcing-it.org. The idea is that there are a lot of issues at stake in modern enterprises:
Our proposition is that the […]
I recently completed reading the book Troux Enterprise Architecture Solutions by Richard Reese. First, the disclosure: this book was provided to me by Packt Publishing for the explicit purpose of this review. In addition, Packt is also the publisher of my own book, SOA Governance. I have no relationship with Troux, however, I have had […]
The Greening of IT is a symptom of a much larger challenge for humankind – transitioning from economic childhood into maturity. Despite the emergence of large regional alliances such as the EC, humankind remains incredibly fragmented; and yet the need for global climate and energy policies is […]