Government as a platform, foundations (ii)

Comments on the “Foundations for Government as a Platform”.
continuing
 
“Meet technical and design standards” 
The same service design standards should apply. In fact, it is both the government and the suppliers that should elaborate and app…

The Ignorance of Management – Deep and Wide

While on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago, an interesting graphic caught my eye. Titled “The Iceberg of Ignorance”, it referred to a 1989 study in which: …consultant Sidney Yoshida concluded: “Only 4% of an organization’s front line problems are known by top management, 9% are known by middle management, 74% by supervisors and 100% […]

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – 3: Method

For a viable enterprise ­architecture [EA], now and into the future, we need frameworks, methods and tools that can support the EA discipline’s needs. This is Part 3 of a six-part series on proposals towards an enterprise-architecture framework and standard for whole-of-enterprise architecture: Introduction

Enterprise Architecture – why do we need it?

Free previews of EA introduction courseEnterprise Architecture – why we need it – an introduction, is the title of my latest on-line course – which gives a straightforward, common-sense introduction to EA. If you are curious to find out why we really do need EA in the 21st century, check out some of the free preview lectures…

Frankenframeworks

The thing I like most about sharing ideas through blogs and posts is the feedback that I get. My recent post (EA Frameworks or Ontologies) got a comment from Tom Graves, which included a reference to a blog from Chris Lockhart with the great title Frankenframeworks – which has some great comments about our use of frameworks in EA And…

The Flag Application Architecture torment

On computer architecture flags have always played a substantial role, as well in certain application development. Since most data and business architecture was done on a batch principle mainly driven by the limitation in technology, flag also got used in a lot of solution architecture. The problem in all areas is that despite of new … Continue reading The Flag Application Architecture torment