Embracing our inner weirdness
Easter. In the Christian calendar at least – and in the pagan one that preceded it – it’s supposed to be a time of rebirth. Yet rebirth of what? And into what, or whom? If it’s a more personal form…
Enterprise Architecture
An enterprise-architects’ mantra
Quick, brief and practical – three phrases that every enterprise-architecture should know by heart, and act on, too: “I don’t know… (but I know how to find out, or find someone who does)” “It depends… (and I know how to…
Why big data analytics fail?
This is a long comment for the HBR blog on “Why your analytics are failing you” that states that “the real challenge is recognizing that using big data and analytics to better solve problems and/or make decisions obscures the organizational realit…
Improving Patient Care and Reducing Costs in Healthcare – Join The Open Group Tweet Jam on Wednesday, April 23
By Jason Lee, Director of Healthcare and Security Forums, The Open Group On Wednesday, April 23 at 9:00 am PT/12:00 pm ET/5:00 pm GMT, The Open Group Healthcare Forum will host a tweet jam to discuss the issues around healthcare … Continue reading →
The dilution of enterprise-architecture
“What concerns me is the dilution of what EA means to the point it has no meaning.” That’s what he said. But is this a real concern that we should be worried about in enterprise-architecture? Or a red-herring that arises…
“Which EA school do you belong to?”
Over on the LinkedIn Chronicles, we might say, there’s been a long-running thread in which one of the more provocative of ‘the usual suspects’ asserted two things that “are not enterprise-architecture”, and five things that enterprise-architecture “always is” – all…
ArchiMate® Q&A with Phil Beauvoir
By The Open Group The Open Group’s upcoming Amsterdam Summit in May will feature a full day on May 14 dedicated to ArchiMate®, an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture, supported by tools that allow Enterprise Architects to … Continue reading →
TOGAF Distilled
A series of short videos exploring TOGAFTOGAF Distilled is the title of an exciting new series of videos that I’ve been working on with Orbus Software. The Orbus Software video library is a valuable resource for any enterprise architect, and introduces the benefits of the iServer Product Suite including a tour through them. Checkout these videos:…
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The Business Designer and the Architecture
The title of “business designer” grows en vogue today.Please refer to my previous post and comments as well about the role of the business architect. In the strict sense of the words, there is no such role as business designer, because a…
Redrawing the Viable System Model diagram
I’ve been arguing repeatedly that trying to get the Viable System Model from overviews, introductions and writings based on or about it, can put the curious mind in a state of confusion or simply lead to wrong interpretations. The absolute minimum is reading at least once each of the three books explaining the model. But […]
How do you think?
How do I think? How do I think, really? How do you think, exactly? How does anyone think – and describe their thinking? Especially about ‘big-picture’, often-abstract themes such as enterprise-architecture? Yeah, I’ve been struggling with this one a long time – a very…
On the Origin of Objects
A great quote about being too precise!And for better of worse – but mostly, I believe, for worse – the conception of ‘object’ that has been enshrined in present-day science and analytic philosophy, with its presumptive underlying precision and clarity, is more reminiscent of fastidiously cropped hedge rows, carefully weeded rose gardens, and individually labeled…
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- Agility = Balance + Speed + Strength + Coordination I was exploring the nature of enterprise agility to answer…