Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
What tool or graphic would you use to guide a quick exploration of strategy or tactics? Many people would use SWOT, of course – the classic 2×2 grid of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats: The catch is that it’s very limited…
Just a short mention here: I’ve just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a … Continue reading →
There are a fair few business-model patterns out there that look really great, really profitable – and yet conceal fundamental flaws that can kill the business outright. (Or, in some cases, it’s not just the business that gets killed… –…
By stopping EA deliberately, we disrupt EA at our own enterprise risk. EA is like a city map where we have to continually update the plans because of new constructions and roads, demolitions,expansion, repairs…
Suppose you are in a meeting. You, the Enterprise Architect of the EA Chess kind. You are aware of many complexities, uncertainties, hair-ball like integrations and other ‘technical debt’ in your landscape, and you don’t have the habit of underestimating … Continue reading →
What if we apply the advice at the enterprise level? If it does not work properly why not starting it again, from scratch?
Enterprise Patterns are one of the most useful tools for the EA team to have emerged in recent years. They are a great way to document an aggregate view of the constraints of a current architecture, or the capabilities that are enabled by a target architecture. TOGAF provides a brief outline of the content of…
I’ve long been a fan of Alex Osterwalder’s work. There can be no doubt that he’s had a huge impact on business-architecture – particularly for startups – with tools such as his Business Model Canvas [BMCanvas] and, more recently, Value…
EA is a full time and permanent job exactly because of enterprise change.
The EA should not be modelled during a transformation but before any transformation.
To start and stop the EA function every so often reminds me of Windows we used to turn on and off to make it work.
QualiWare will be at the Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2015 in London on 15-18 June 2015. Kuno Brodersen participates in a panel session about How Practitioners and Vendors can Co-create Value from the Succesful Application of EA Tools. John Gøtze will speak together with Milan Guenther about Models that Matter. Our customer Statoil will speak about A […]
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…