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I have now published my book ‘Enterprise Architecture: unlocking business potential’. This publication came about more by accident than design having being encouraged to take the more or less numerous random entries I had made in ‘The Knowledge Economy’ blog … Continue reading →
This, sadly, is not the blog-post I’d set out to write when I started this brief series. It’s best summed up in just three words: I give up. Seven years ago, I set out to save enterprise-architecture from itself. Who was I…
Who defines the profession and disciplines for ‘the architecture of the enterprise’? Who is responsible for it, how, and why? The focus in this part of the series is on a comment by Len Fehskens, on an earlier post about EA and certification. As with the previous post, building on…
I was reading this today: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ea-matters/is-there-an-enterprise-architect-paradox-surely-is-57728?rss=1 It is a good analysis of the cognitive dissonance between what Enterprise Architects should be doing and the role and situation they often actually find themselves in. The term Enterprise Architect has been hijacked for far too long. An Enterprise Architect should indeed be a senior leadership role, ideally reporting to […]
What skills do we need for enterprise-architecture – for a literal ‘architecture of the enterprise’? And why? And how do we certify those skills? Or should we even try to certify those skills? If so, why? If not, why not? The…
Enterprise Architecture is a framework of decision mak […]
The EA team alone cannot develop and maintain the whole EA without participation of stakeholders with respect to their own parts, Hence, the EA group has to create a governance framework that would be employed in the consistent design of EA a…
By Manuel Ponchaux, Senior Consultant, Corso The Corso team recently visited London for The Open Group’s “Business Transformation in Finance, Government & Healthcare” conference (#ogLON). The event was predominantly for learning how experts address organisational change when aligning business needs … Continue reading →
Why do I worry about enterprise-architecture? And who the heck am I to worry about it? What kind of right have I got to criticise anything that anyone does in this space? Okay, let’s forget the idea of ‘rights’ for…
I think most can agree that enterprise architects have been getting more and more narrow in terms of the scope of planning that they touch. In reality, executives and decision makers need a single complete plan of action. They ask, “what do I need to do, how do I secure it, how much will it cost, and when can it be done?” As enterprise architects have drifted away from solution […]
What’s wrong with enterprise-architecture? For that matter, what’s right with it? How can we do more of what’s right and less of what’s wrong? And what is the point of EA, anyway? Following on from those posts on certification and EA,…