Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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 Churchill had been an Enterprise Architect then maybe the speech below had been a reality… The problems raged on. The Architect told the leaders, “I have, myself, full confidence that if we all do our duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall […]
Continuing on from ‘Framework versus body-of-knowledge‘, the same colleague asked me for some notes on how we could apply quality-systems concepts to enterprise-architecture itself. Background to this is that perhaps a dozen years back, I was working at an engineering…
The LEARN principle extends the NEA principle of the internet to the context of global knowledge: Learning is everywhere. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it. Responsibility drives it. No-one possesses it. The NEA acronym stands for the maxim…
Re-reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto, to write a book-review for the current edition of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, it struck me that the SCAN frame provides a useful means to understand and describe the relationship between checklists and…
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…
Following on from the previous post ‘Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test‘, there’s an important corollary about real-time sensemaking and and decision-making – it was in my notes for the post, but I forgot to include it, so I’ll do…
It started with one of those first-thing-in-the-morning ideas that seemingly turn up from nowhere: Principles create a bridge between order and chaos. Order is expressed in rules; principles are expressed in story. Order, principles and chaos: order is an abstraction…
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 […]
This is the first of a three part series on Challenges for Higher Education CIOs – Globalization of Education. The delivery of education has become a global business. The number of students from K to 12 aged populations in North America are dec…
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…