Enterprise Architecture and the Business of IT

I’ve been following Tom Graves and his Tetradian blog for quite a while. His view of Enterprise Architecture (EA), namely that it is about the architecture of the enterprise and not just the enterprise’s IT systems, is one I find compelling. With some encouragement on Tom’s part, I’ve begun touching on the topic of EA, […]

At Integrated-EA 2016

Always enlivening and enlightening, and working with what is perhaps still the closest we’ll see so far to a real ‘the architecture of the enterprise’, the Defence-oriented Integrated-EA conference in London in early March is one of the regular highlights of my

McKinsey’s nine questions for the digital transformation, how relevant are they?

what leaders should review, is alternative target operating models or big pictures and new business models for the enterprise, so that they can understand how the business will be changed and be able to make decisions.

Inaugural User Group Meeting Draws Out New Ways of Seeing TOGAF®

By The Open Group The Open Group hosted the first TOGAF® User Group meeting on January 25, 2016 in San Francisco. With over 50,000 certified users in more than 120 countries, the intent of the TOGAF User Group was to … Continue reading

Why make enterprise-architecture more tangible?

Enterprise-architecture: yeah, so much of it is kinda abstract… – all that ‘meta-’ and stuff. Which turns many people off, big-time. Unfortunately, “all that ‘meta-’ and stuff” is really important: it helps people explore the real complexities of their own enterprise,

Statistically caused, and so perhaps then Uncaused and neither Determined nor Pre-Determined

Cogito ergo sum [a] is a  Latin philosophical  proposition by  René Descartes usually translated into English as ” I think, therefore I am“. Cartesianism – is usually understood as deterministic, i.e. about  definite answers, deductive logic . Actually Descartes held that all existence consists in three distinct substances, each with its own essence… Continue Reading →