Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I’ve been working on getting all the pieces together for my second book project. Now the book is starting to come together under the direction of some visual guides. If you have followed my posts throughout the years you will certainly recognize some of these guides. The major thought There are only two ways to […]
Originally posted on loppysmile:
Most strategies fail. Rewind. Most marketing and comms strategies fail. I’m not saying they don’t have an impact. What I mean is, most fail to achieve their stated outcomes. Downer. A lot of the time, we’re never forced to recognise that our pretty little diagrams amounted to jack. We pump out a…
Originally posted on Alec Blair:
So, you’re busy working away at your models. The team is busy discussing the nitty, gritty things around taxonomies and ontologies. Others are creating detailed elaborations of different aspects of one of the dimensions of your enterprise architecture. You look at the work and say, “Damn this is good stuff!”…
There has always been an opinion that, since the environment is so dynamic today, the enterprise management is an art. And that modelling the enterprise does not serve any purpose since it aalready depicts a past static state.That in contrast…
By Andrew Josey, The Open Group We’re pleased to announce that the ArchiMate Certification for People program has reached the significant milestone of 1,000 individual certifications and there are individuals certified in 30 different countries as shown in the world … Continue reading →
All that discussion about capabilities – yeah, great, fine. But how do we use them? How do we use this notion of ‘capabilities’ in designing our business-models and suchlike? I was kinda reminded about this from another direction yesterday, in a great…
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Is culture essentially chaotic? Or is it a complex adaptive system? So asks Stephen Bounds in his post ‘Chaos, complexity and CASes‘ – itself a response to William Powell’s ‘Culture is chaotic‘. Both posts are well worth a read, and seems…
“Every business is an information business.” That was the first line of an infographic I saw this morning. And yep, no doubt about it: every business is indeed an information business. But there’s a rather important word that’s missing there: also.…
There seems to be as many ways of talking about capabilities as there are ways of putting a shoe together. To add to the confusion functions, processes and other concepts of enterprise architecture is widely used as capabilities. Here I refer to capabilities as the core skills that we must master as a social system […]
This one’s really straightforward: it’s just a follow-up to a public request on Twitter by Bizzdesign consultant Bas van Gils: basvg: I am looking for definitions of these concepts, please help: capability, capability based planning, capability increment, capability map I’ve…
What have been the most important things in enterprise architecture throughout 2013? I am sure anything you can come up with have been covered by the EA blogger community. So, to get an overview of what has been happening in 2013 in EA, take a look at the 2013 archives of EA Voices. With an average …