Fractals, naming and enterprise-architecture
What naming do we need, when we’re doing architectures for every part of the enterprise? Yeah, I know this is another one that I go on and on about, but it’s just too bad: we need to resolve this one –…
Enterprise Architecture
At Vlerick Business School: EA roadmapping
How do we do roadmapping in enterprise-architecture – developing the plan for change, and keeping to that change? How do we adjust to changes in the change itself? A great session on this last week at Vlerick Business School, in…
From service to product
We’ve recently explored here the transition from product to service – but what about the other way round, from service to product? (Many thanks to Michael Poulin for reminding of this point.) As far as I understand it, product and…
The Open Group Panel: Internet of Things – Opportunities and Obstacles
Below is the transcript of The Open Group podcast exploring the challenges and ramifications of the Internet of Things, as machines and sensors collect vast amounts of data. Listen to the podcast. Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to a special … Continue reading →
How Enterprise Architecture manages Complexity and Chaos
Complexity and chaos reduce the flexibility and agility of the enterprise and as such its ability to respond to market and business needs.
Organisation and enterprise
What is an enterprise? Perhaps more specifically, what is ‘the enterprise’ in enterprise-architecture? (Quick TL;DR summary: in enterprise-architecture, ‘the enterprise’ is not the same as ‘the organisation’, and is always larger in scope than just ‘the organisation’. Confusing those two terms, or treating…
Enterprise Architecture: A Practitioner View
By Prasad Palli and Dr. Gopala Krishna Behara, Wipro Overview of Enterprise Architecture IT organizations as usual are always ready to take challenges and start the journey in defining/refining their IT strategies and aligning with business strategies. During this journey, … Continue reading →
Why the ‘why’ matters
In any real-world practice, why do we need to explain the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’ and ‘with-what’? Here’s a first-hand answer to that question… Way back when (almost half a century ago: yikes…), I took a school-vacation job…
‘Trying’ may be ‘Doing’: so take care.
An athlete, in developing their skills will repeatedly ‘try’ various manoeuvres or activities until such time as either they master them, in which case they are ‘done’, or acknowledge that they are beyond their capacity to succeed. A diver will … Continue reading →
From product to service
What’s the relationship between product and service? How does that relationship work in practice, within a service-oriented enterprise-architecture? What started this one off was this much-referenced comparison: (My apologies, I don’t know who to credit for this image – perhaps…
EA as a tool to manage and reduce enterprise Complexity and Chaos
Rather than approaching the subject from a scholastic viewpoint, I looked into the meanings we confer the terms in every day business talk which would reflect more closely out concerns.
Complexity, is the Latin denoting “entwined”, “t…
Mass-customisation, mass-uniqueness and big-data
(I was originally going to title this post ‘Storm in a bra-cup’, but realised it would again lead certain people to miss the point…) What’s the difference between mass-customisation and mass-uniqueness? And how much of data – or, these days,…