Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
What’s a quick way to keep reminding ourselves about effectiveness in the enterprise, and that tagline of “things work better when they work together, on-purpose”? My suggestion for this is the somewhat-contrived acronym LEARN: eLegant – clarity, simplicity, consistency, ‘feel’, self-adapting…
What’s a simple tagline that we can use to help guide conversations about enhancing of enterprise-effectiveness? My own preference is this: things work better when they work together, on purpose. Okay, I’ll admit that that doesn’t quite give us the full…
Just came across an interesting post by Colin Bannon, CTO BT this morning. The infographic which he has shared compares and contrasts the Old or a more traditional operating model of IT with a new, evolving operating model of IT. While I have…
Just came across an interesting post by Colin Bannon, CTO BT this morning. The infographic which he has shared compares and contrasts the Old or a more traditional operating model of IT with a new, evolving operating model of IT. While I have…
Keep it simple. Simple, yet not simplistic. Acknowledge the complexity, yet don’t ever push that complexity in people’s faces. (Not until they’re ready for it and choose to face it, anyway.) Help people find their own effectiveness about creating effectiveness.…
Enterprise-architecture is dead. As a term, anyway. Although it had been dying for quite a while, we do have some certainty now about when it died; we know how it died, and even why it died. And whilst some of us…
Can anybody really own a part of the enterprise? What does ownership really mean? The business employs the term because there is a need for some body to be in charge of all issues related to an activity or aspect of the enterprise.
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Darren Dalcher, one of my colleagues at Cutter Consortium, has written an Advisor about “The Third Knowledge Revolution: Learning to Live with Uncertainty” (Cutter login required) that has a lot of relevance to enterprise architects. My experience, research and client work shows that knowledge is one of eight fundamental factors that we need to include in EA…
There we were, my colleague and I, discussing the possible merits and value for me of going to yet another conference. This time business-architecture rather than ‘enterprise’-architecture, and reasonably-priced too – unlike so many conferences these days. Looked good. Yet…
By The Open Group Following this spring’s European Summit, we reached out to Eric Boulay, our French partner, to catch up on the latest goings on at The Open Group France. Boulay, who is also the CEO of our French … Continue reading →
Enterprise Architecture is a commonly accepted label, used around the world by Enterprise Architects, and yet the meaning of the term continues to provoke debate. “Architecture” – on its own – is not confusing a term. Although some definitions narrow it to buildings, I prefer a more open definition which includes Enterprise Architecture, such as this: “[architecture…
The essence of simplification is grasping what is and what is not important. Conveying Insight is a core EA-task why simplification is a must-do activity. Apply simplification to the ever so complex Logical System Landscape and you have The Conceptual System Landscape. The Conceptual System Landscape is a strong tool to communicate the business-IT relationship, […]