Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Following on “Enterprise Architecture: Don’t Be a Fool with a Tool” and “Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken?” published on Forbes, we may ask ourselves, what does TOGAF deliver if practitioners report th
EA is alive and well as concept but methods have not yielded expected results
Let me comment on this post “Phrases Archittects HAVE To Stop Using” (http://blog.iasaglobal.org/2014/07/28/phrases-architects-have-to-stop-using/comment-page-1/#comment-198) where Paul Preiss of IASA explains why IT architects are wrong to use p…
Jason Bloomberg writes or more appropriately quotes a few architects on Forbes on the role of EA in “Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken?”.
Jason is right in saying that EA has achieved “paltry” degrees of success. But not for…
The idea that only a few consultants can guide us to see the EA at the end of the tunnel is self serving. What we all need though is a framework that enables us do the work properly.
Since it is hosted in IT, EA does not live to expectations about its role in managing complexity, change, business and operating models or enabling strategy at enterprise level. It fails.
This HBR article looks into “The rise of the Chief Marketing Technologist”
Marketing has always worked with R&D, product development, Emerging Technologies (ET) and technology strategy functions to put together its strategy with regard …
Should a leader be pessimistic? Or should he not acknowledge that? It looks like the impression on others is what matters.
Should then deception be employed to inspire optimism? Deception conveys a false sense of security thus postponing the realiz…
I had a discussion once with a Director of Finance:
‘I think we already have an architecture of the enterprise’ he said, ‘as we have today clear processes in Finance; otherwise, how could the enterprise work today? Why do we need then to spend on…
We can easily generate automatically monster diagrams inputting at random all we know about the enterprise entities and their relationships.
“How to document your EA”, is the theme of a discussion thread in the LinkedIn “Enterprise Architecture Forum”. You have to request to be a member though to get access, if I am right.
There must be a good reason though why these kind of discussions for…