A tale of three toolsets
Time to get back on the toolsets trail… First, though, I’ll let Phil Beauvoir have his own rant about the current state of supposed ‘EA-toolsets’ – as per a series of Tweets he pushed out a few days ago: Better…
Enterprise Architecture
Do We Need A Bit More Anarchy in EA?
“Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.” Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
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Enterprise Architecture, Dynamic and Distinctive Capabilities – by Ian Glossop
Enterprise Architecture, as an activity in organisations and ‘discipline of praxis’, is about producing rigorous, explicit models of the enterprise to be used in the organisation’s decision-making processes. Its purpose is to enable the organisation to make better decisions about where to invest its precious resources to change the enterprise for the better. [Note: The “Enterprise” and […]
The Internet Is Not The Answer
Of course – it helps to know the question first… but there are a number of recent books that have questioned the gadget-driven, Internet-centric world we live in. In “The Internet Is Not The Answer”, Andrew Keen argues that much of what the Internet has changed is for the worst. He says that “all we’ve…
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An Interview with John Zachman
In January 2015, the Open Group published an interview giving A Historical Look at Enterprise Architecture with John Zachman. It includes a fascinating account about how John got involved in enterprise architecture in the first place, and how he came to develop what is now known as the Zachman Framework. Importantly – although his work…
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How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger…
How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger (after it is cleaned)?How do you feel about using the same fork as a stranger (say, in a cafe, after it is cleaned)?Framing is important because it affects how we feel and how we feel affect…
How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger…
How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger (after it is cleaned)?How do you feel about using the same fork as a stranger (say, in a cafe, after it is cleaned)?Framing is important because it affects how we feel and how we feel affect…
Cybersecurity Standards: The Open Group Explores Security and Ways to Assure Safer Supply Chains
Following is a transcript of part of the proceedings from The Open Group San Diego 2015 in February. The following presentations and panel discussion, which together examine the need and outlook for Cybersecurity standards amid supply chains, are provided by … Continue reading →
Elevator Speech for Enterprise Architecture
What is a good elevator speech for Enterprise Architecture? I usually say something like the following: “Enterprise Architecture is a strategic business capability that provides benefits to a business for: Digital strategy exploitation Cloud strategy implementation Business and IT Consolidation Business Transformation Cost reduction Business Process Improvement and innovation Exploiting opportunities for value creation Facilitating […]
Swedish EA Summit
IRM AB has its annual EA Träff in Stockholm on 17 March. John Gøtze will speak in the afternoon. His talk is about the EA3 approach to enterprise architecture, and how it relates to other EA approaches such as TOGAF.
Celebrating the First 40 Years of Enterprise Architecture
A Background to EA – Celebrating the First 40 Years of EA is the title of the first EA Background that I’ve produced for Good e-Learning. It looks at the first 40 years of enterprise architecture by picking out a few of the key events that have formed the evolution of this emerging discipline, starting…
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The relation between Design Thinking and Enterprise Architecture
Design Thinking and Enterprise Architecture are different disciplines that are performed by different teams. While one focuses on streamlining the human experience in the enterprise, the other on optimising the enterprise by discovering, documenting an…