Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
We often talk about strategy but, how do we know if strategy does what it should?
Strategy is taken, usually, as both what we are aiming for and how are we getting there.
What we are aiming for, i.e. the goals have to be assessed first fo…
Design Thinking and Enterprise Architecture are different disciplines that are performed by different teams. While one focuses on streamlining the human experience in the enterprise, the other on optimising the enterprise by discovering, documenting an…
Porter’s value chain outlines the key activities of an enterprise.
Today though, the question arises, does the rapid progress of the technology in the enterprise render the Value Chain insignificant?
The question came at least …
If we look at the digital the way we look at enterprise architecture, we have to project the big picture at the end of the tunnel, the digital enterprise.
But what we can do is actively control the digital evolution from as early as possible to get what we want rather than what comes from the digital pipeline.
A digital enterprise increasingly looks like a virtual enterprise consisting of lego like partner services. Leasing capabilities rather than buying and owning them is the incoming paradigm.
The Business Model exposes the key variations of the Value Chain
The digital officer role proposed by the business is the conceptual Enterprise Architect
At the root of the IT transformation failures is the current culture of lack of governance and accountability. As a rule, those responsible must be accountable as well.
While in every day operations the lack of proper management practices is easy to conceal, this would most likely fail the company at its first large transformation.
All failed programs I know were besieged by the same problem, an inadequate problem and solution evaluation.
So we keep doing the same things same with the same results.