Business Architecture

The Future Enterprise Architect

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Before describing the future Enterprise Architect, we will reflect on the current Enterprise Architect, one of their customers – a current line of business leader – and the strained relationship between them. For the sake of personalization, we will call the current Enterprise Architect ‘Archie’, and current line of business leader ‘Loretta’.

In the future state of Enterprise Architecture, the relationship between the two evolves towards one that is more productive and trusted. We describe what a future Enterprise Architect might look like and summarize the salient differences.

Building-blocks for a viable business-architecture

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What’s the minimum that we need as a base for a viable business-architecture? That’s a shorter summary for a multi-part question recently sent to me by Chilean business-architect Richard Moira Lupin: What should a company have, what maturity, what capacity, what…

At Intersection19 conference

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It’s been a while since I’ve been to a conference – eldercare-commitments have rather limited my options for longer-distance travel over the past year or two. In that sense at least, the Intersection19 enterprise-design conference in Lisbon was a very welcome…

EA in miniature – Part 4: Prototyping

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At present, enterprise-architecture is most often used in mid- to larger-sized organisations, and still primarily focussed on IT. Yet what can we learn by applying the same methods to a one-person organisation and their enterprise, and to capabilities beyond IT…

EA in miniature – Part 3: Getting real

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At present, enterprise-architecture is most often used for mid- to larger-sized organisations. Yet what can we learn by applying the same methods at the smallest scale – a one-person organisation and their enterprise? For this series, I’m using my own…

The Future Enterprise Architect

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Before describing the future Enterprise Architect, we will reflect on the current Enterprise Architect, one of their customers – a current line of business leader – and the strained relationship between them. For the sake of personalization, we will call the current Enterprise Architect ‘Archie’, and current line of business leader ‘Loretta’.

In the future state of Enterprise Architecture, the relationship between the two evolves towards one that is more productive and trusted. We describe what a future Enterprise Architect might look like and summarize the salient differences.

EA in miniature – Part 2: First steps

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What does enterprise-architecture look like at the smallest scale – a one-person organisation and their enterprise? For this series, I’m using my own case as a worked-example. My work is in the enterprise of enterprise-architecture itself: so how do I…

EA in miniature – Part 1: Introduction

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One of the core themes of my work is that enterprise-architecture principles and practices should apply in essentially the same way for every type of content or context, at every scope and scale. I’ve often written about EA at the very large…

Applications, work-instructions and business-continuity

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For business-continuity after disruption or failure, what’s the first thing we’ll need? Answer: an alternative way to do things. For business-process redesign, what’s the first thing we’ll need? Answer: an alternative way to do things. In both cases, we’ll need…

See you in September?

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Why not take a moment to visit the Cutter upcoming events page and get one or more of our terrific autumn events into your agenda? Explore the role disruptive technology plays when the innovation process diverges from what companies consider to be good business practices — and from individuals’ comfort zones.  Join Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Katia Passerini on September Read more

How to architect a digital business platform

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Organizations are modernizing their products offerings to include connected products. They’re using technology to connect their products to cloud environments. They’re instrumenting their products with sensors that feed real-time data to a machine-learning model in the cloud. These sensors are comparing current operation of products to best operation of them and feed back instructions on Read more

A checklist for business-transformations

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What’s a key tool to help manage something as wide-ranging and complex as a business-transformation? Answer: a checklist. The following checklist for business-transformations is adapted from one that we use in our own work on transformation. A matching slidedeck with…