Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
EA team should keep it clear rather than simple…Simple does not equal Clear. The opposite of simple is complicate, which you can do only so much about, while of clear is confuse, which is a state of mind.
While EA is involved and should produce guidelines for the decision process, it should not make decisions on behalf of the business.
McKinsey’s published its Ten practical ideas for organizing and managing your enterprise architecture
Perhaps, the article should have started though with a definition of what EA means for different organisations and what are its methods an…
IT is not really about investigating the emerging Digital technologies landscape, their adoption strategy and roadmapping.
…never mind IT, to survive, most our enterprises are rather bimodal. But I would no call them that, Bimodal enterprises, it sounds too clinical.
Are we talking about a Bipolar kind of IT that switches mood, mode, energy and activities at will?… I can only hope that Bimodal IT is not about applying agile modes to IT operations.
Is the Sharing term proper when clients do not share much?
Perhaps we should call it a Peer to Peer economy because the operation takes place between two peer denizens, one renting, selling or offering a service to another; or a Participating enterpris…
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Not every industry is suitable for Sharing as yet but only the some delivering services to the public such as hospitability, transportation, logistics, leasing… where the participants own the means of the trade and can work individu…
Sharing implements in fact The Cloud Enterprise, the enterprise where most functions, bar the coordination function, are outsourced to 3rd parties in a services Cloud.
The Sharing success comes from increased satisfaction of both the client and participant. Sharing is in fact advantageous to all parties because:
The Sharing enterprise is
– created quickly out of pre-existing assets and workforce without l…
Sharing is a new enterprise business model… The key Sharing differentiator today is the digital technology. Yet another impact of the digital on the enterprise. Uber and Airbnb are made possible by the two way web, network ubiquity and mobile technol…
To avoid the ever debate on the scope of Enterprise Architecture, IT vs the enterprise, I call Enterprise Modelling, rather than Enterprise Architecture (EA), the enterprise wide architecture, that covers business, technology and people.