Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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,…
Now a days companies are developing Process Architectur […]
Focused Efforts Producing Significant ResultsEnterprise leverage occurs when a focused effort produces significant results for the enterprise and its strategy. How do Enterprise Architects help the CIO produce enterprise leverage? Enterprise Architecture (EA) has to go beyond simply improving operational efficiency, reducing costs and providing technical excellence. Here are my suggestions for how the EA role could…
One more comment on the ‘certification for enterprise-architecture’ farrago, and then I’d better move on. The other day I spotted a one-liner from ‘gamechanger‘ Mike Bonifer that I can only describe as quietly brilliant – and painfully pertinent to this…