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A few weeks ago, I was at a meeting to discuss the UK National Health Service reforms. One of the speakers, a senior NHS administrator, used the word “architecture” in her presentation. Twice. Clearly referring to business/organizational architecture r…
Haven’t been to New Zealand yet, but I will be there soon… From September 4 through 7 in Auckland, for TechEd New Zealand. I will be presenting two topics (Business architecture for non architects, and Aligning IT with capabilities).
Now, normally you wouldn’t see Enterprise Architecture topics on a TechEd calendar. However, in the NZ market, there just isn’t the demand for multiple Microsoft conferences every year. As a result, all the conference demand is bundled up into TechEd. Due to the efforts of Terry Chapman and the hard working architects in Microsoft New Zealand, the TechEd conference there has developed quite a reputation for hosting an advanced architecture track.
I’m fortunate to be attending and presenting. If you live or work in the region, I’d love to see you at TechEd New Zealand. If you would like to see more information about the sessions at TechEd NZ, click here.
How can you use the tools of Enterprise Architecture and open standards to improve the capability of your company doing business? The Day 2 speakers of The Open Group Conference in Washington, D.C. addressed this question, focusing on Enterprise Transf…
#bizarch #entarch Most enterprise architecture frameworks put LOCATION into the business architecture domain. So am I merely being contrarian when I ask whether it really belongs there?
My first point is that some IT people may regard the business arc…
The previous post on ‘Money, price and value in enterprise-architecture‘ was kinda long, so here’s a (somewhat) shorter summary: Background It’s fundamentally important that enterprise-architectures should incorporate the following assertions: there are many other forms of value besides money in…
To my mind, the way that most people seem to handle the relationships between money, price and value in enterprise-architecture and EA models is, frankly, an utter shambles. So let’s get a few things straight here: there are many other…
If you are an established business architect you are most likely already doing most of these items. But if you are new to business architecture or are coming from IT or other operationally focused organizations, you should give each of these steps serious consideration. Spend more time with business leaders. You don’t have to corner […]
#bizarch #entarch I have been challenged to explain the constructs underlying my Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture (blogpost, draft book), so here is a rough schema. Comments please.
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What’s the difference between a framework and a body-of-knowledge? A colleague asked me to write some notes on this, and it seems worthwhile doing so in more generally-available form – in other words, a blog-post. To me this is much…
NOTE: When I refer to “Business Architects” here, I am referring to anyone playing the role of the business architect. This could be business managers, enterprise architects, business analysts, strategists, etc. We don’t need the title of business architect to be one. When we do “business architecture things” we are acting as business architects. There […]
Yes, this is another ‘how not to do it’ post. And no, this isn’t about the current Barclays mess, but instead about a quote I saw in a passing tweet by enterprise-architect Joseph George: RT @josephg5: “Financial services can be thought…
Last week I presented a keynote (“The Strategy to Execution Process”) at the London IRM EA/BPM conference. There were so many good ideas and new perspectives that after three days I thought my head would explode. A melting pot of ideas – There were over 240 attendees representing 34 countries as far flung as Australia, […]