What Enterprise Architects do and should do
Given the EA state today, an EA architect should first create and employ own methodology to model the integrated blueprint of the enterprise and guide the transformation.
Enterprise Architecture
The long and the short
Yeah, there’ve been complaints. – “Write simpler! “, says one. – “You write so looong!”, says another. – “I have a problem with your blog-posts”, says yet another. “I know I’ll be required to think hard if I read them…
A new direction?
It was a good chat, that serendipitous meeting with an IT-recruiter on the crowded homebound train. We’d managed to grab one of the rare table-seats, so I was able to show her my slidedeck ‘Attracting, retaining and getting the best…
Since the Enterprise Architects number is on the increase, what do they actually do?
Too often the “Enterprise” in the EA term translates into experience in the enterprise IT, while “Architect” into a senior IT employee.
The Open Group to Hold Next Event in San Francisco
The Open Group, the vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its next event in San Francisco January 25-28. The Open Group San Francisco 2016 will focus on how Enterprise Architecture is empowering companies to build better systems by architecting for digital … Continue reading →
Enterprise Architecture is still juvenile, why?
The big issue is though that we don’t know what we don’t know. Hence we don’t know what to do about it.
HDN (Hyperbolic Bayes Net) + Data Mining to Discover Tacit Knowledge and Map Clinical Pathways
Data consists of symbols that represent objects, events, and their properties. Information is data that has been made useful. Information answers the questions of who, what, where, when, and how many. Information is helpful in deciding what to do, not how to do it. Knowledge consists of instructions and know-how. Knowledge answers the ‘how’ […]
Big Data Analytics – Unlock Breakthrough Results: (Step 4)
Continuing the series on Nine Easy Steps to Unlock Breakthrough Results, we now assign relative weights to each of the critical capabilities groups for each operating model uncovered earlier. This is done to assign the higher weightings to capability groupings most important to the success of each model. Having the quantified index means we can evaluate each platform or tool for optimization within quickly and produce meaningful results.
Systems and EA
How does systems thinking really apply to enterprise architectureOne of the things I like most about the festive season is the chance to reset – there’s space and time to think about what happened in the previous year, what the future might bring, and most of all – time to spend with the special people in your…
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The ultimate cost of bad IT is the fear of change that paralyses industries
Such IT failures we learn nothing from, have a debilitating effect on future projects. Organizations are paralysed by the fear of change. Hence things continue to be bad for fear they can get even worse.
The cost of bad IT begins with a poor situation appraisal
Failing to appraise the situation properly is perhaps the main cause of failure for IT projects.
Metatheory and enterprise-architecture
“What’s the theory of enterprise-architecture?”, a colleague asked the other day. “Is there any kind of coherent and consistent theory behind it that holds it all together?” Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: yes. Or sort-of, rather. Both no and yes…