Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
What is magic? And how would it apply in enterprise-architecture? Don’t worry – I haven’t gone crazy! (Well, not completely crazy, anyway…) It’s just I’ve been doing a lot of pondering lately on that classic phrase by Arthur C Clarke, that…
Continued from previous post in response to the BIZZdesign’s reply.
See “The Value of Reference Architectures”.
I had to reply to this article because, I was surprised that, after decades of EA, the article somehow, succeeds to mix up such funda…
As mentioned in my previous post today, I am moving the content of this blog to Wordpress. The new address for the blog is http://robertmcilree.wordpress.com I will also be moving over most of the post from here over to Wordpress,…
As mentioned in my previous post today, I am moving the content of this blog to Wordpress. The new address for the blog is http://robertmcilree.wordpress.com I will also be moving over most of the post from here over to Wordpress,…
What is architecture? What do we do in architecture? And how do we do it? Turns out that it’s essentially the same for every kind of architecture: enterprise-architecture, solutions-architecture, software-architecture, building-architecture, naval-architecture, brand-architecture, whatever. Right down at the root, in principle, architecture is incredibly simple. It all…
By Andrew Josey, Director of Standards, The Open Group The Open Group Summit 2014 Amsterdam features an all day track on the ArchiMate® modeling language, followed by an ArchiMate Users Group meeting in the evening. The meeting attendees include the … Continue reading →
Alpha strategies posted “Strategy vs Business Models: What’s the Difference?” Their “answer is that strategy models show the strategies of a business while business models show the interactions between strategies and the uncontroll…
Let it go? Actually, I can’t. Or won’t. Or don’t know how. Or maybe it won’t let me go… Something, anyway… Right now I’m in the somewhat embarrassing position of being hooked on a Disney movie. Or, to be precise, one…
Seems a lot of people in the enterprise-architecture space wonder why I don’t toe the ‘party-line’, and push for IT-centric automation-of-everything, like almost everyone else in ‘the trade’. Well, here’s a nice first-hand example as to why… I’ve been doing…
How can we improve healthcare-information, and the information-flow around the healthcare context? And what part can enterprise-architecture play in helping that to happen? The Open Group ran a one-hour ‘TweetJam‘ on this yesterday on Twitter, keyed on the ‘#ogChat‘ hashtag.…
Is enterprise-architecture more akin to alchemy than applied-science? And if so – and to what extent as so – what would this imply to how we study, discuss, teach, learn and apply enterprise-architectures in real-world practice? Kinda suggests perhaps, that…
I have written previously on this blog about leveraging Enterprise Architecture as a methodology for the Operating Model creation and management. In this blog post I will briefly outline mechanism and benefits of using industry leading Zachma…