An end to the arguments
It’s sometimes said that the real collective-noun for architects is an argument – ‘an argument of architects’. We see that often enough on LinkedIn, to be sure… Yet we’ve also seen it way too often on these pages here, or in…
Enterprise Architecture
The Onion From The Inside Out
By Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant, Business & IT Advisory, KPN Consulting The Open Group Open Platform 3.0™ (OP3.0) services often involve a complex network of interdependent parties[1]. Each party has its own concept of the value it expects from … Continue reading →
So, how can we deal with the digital disruption of the enterprise?
“Speaking at CloudWorld Boston, Wang examined how the convergence of a host of technologies is powering digital disruption…
Digitalization of business is a key factor in this accelerated pace of change… Businesses differenti…
Using the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge with Other Open Group Standards
By Jim Hietala, VP Security, and Andrew Josey, Director of Standards, The Open Group This is the third in our four part blog series introducing the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge. In this blog, we look at how the Open … Continue reading →
Taking a break
The run-up to winter-solstice seems always a bad time for me, as can be seen all too clearly on this blog, over the respective years. Something about the gathering dark, I suspect… Be that as it may, it really is time…
Calling a halt
Enterprise-architecture is a mess. And I’m not the one to fix it. That’s become all too clear to me right now – particularly after the farrago around that previous couple of posts about specialism-trolling, and the almost total non-response to that pair of…
The point of specialism
What’s the point of specialism? Or, perhaps more to the point, why do we so much argue about ‘the point’? – is it a side-effect of specialism itself? After the farrago around the last couple of posts here, this is perhaps best described…
EA to Reflect On and Upgrade Its Role
2015 is an anniversary year for Enterprise Architecture. It is 40 years since Richard Saul Wurman coined the phrase “Information Architecture” — in 1975. Information Architecture became Information Systems Architecture, and then Enterprise Architecture. I predict that enterprise architects will use this anniversary to reflect on the history of our discipline and its position within the Read more
EA to Reflect On and Upgrade Its Role
2015 is an anniversary year for Enterprise Architecture. It is 40 years since Richard Saul Wurman coined the phrase “Information Architecture” — in 1975. Information Architecture became Information Systems Architecture, and then Enterprise Architecture. I predict that enterprise architects will use this anniversary to reflect on the history of our discipline and its position within the …
More on trolls, specialism and context
In the old Norse children’s tale, there’s a troll that lives under a bridge, that eats the life-force of anyone who tries to pass. It’s a useful bridge, sure, and it’s easiest to pass that way, if the troll wasn’t…
The dangers of specialism-trolls in enterprise-architecture
As cross-domain generalists, how can we best cope with narrow-focus specialists who insist that their own domain is the only one that matters? This is a constant problem in enterprise-architectures and the like, not least because we somehow have to…
“Enterprise” Architecture will Grow Up to become Enterprise Architecture
In the next three years, more enterprises will reposition their Enterprise Architecture practices to become architecture truly at the Enterprise level, going beyond using “Enterprise” as a mere prefix to what, in reality, has been an IT-centric architecture. There will be a critical mass of enterprises doing this — enough to make Enterprise Architecture understood …