Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Enterprise Architecture is not something of which a business should be wary. There is little concern apparent when required to use a word processor or a spreadsheet to support documentation or analysis activities within the business. Both are accepted as … Continue reading →
The Enterprise Architecture team has a lifecycle of its own, but doesn’t operate in a vacuum. The Enterprise Architecture capability fails if it is seen too much as blue sky thinking in an ivory tower. The Enterprise Architecture team will interact closely with all the other management processes in an organisation, especially the IT management […]
In order to reap maximum value from the recognition that an Enterprise Architecture can provide long lasting and continuous business benefit the decision to build and use one must be made. How to do so is where some businesses come … Continue reading →
There will always more than one way to solve any given problem. How effective any given solution will be will depend on what information was used in the solution’s definition. An Enterprise Architecture can provide a repository of useful information … Continue reading →
What’s the best way for businesses to engage with social-media? What are the successes, the traps and gotchas, the new ideas and innovations that work well, the old ideas that don’t? Those were some of the themes that Dachis Group’s…
No business is an automaton whereby, once started, it will continue to operate unsupervised. It will always be the case that situations, either internal or external, will arise or can be anticipated that will require the human element to provide … Continue reading →
Big Data as it exists today is not necessarily a tool that creates the Big Picture. Most systems that exists today are designed based on predicated methods. These rely on known variables, the only constraint unknown are the values of the variables. Predicated system are constrained to create newer insight as they are bounded by […]
by Chris Forde, GM APAC and VP Enterprise Architecture, The Open Group Since moving to China in March 2010 I have consistently heard a similar set of statements and questions, something like this…. “EA? That’s fine for Europe and America, … Continue reading →
Before proceeding with the Building better systems series I thought I should write a quick post over the weekend about the underlying Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text engineering technologies proposed in the solution. I have received a lot of questions about this when I posted How to build better systems – the specification.
It’s not about the methods, it’s not about models, it’s not about the tools – it’s about having the ability to make smarter decisions. Those decisions might be related to improving business operations or processes, undertaking significant business transformations, merging organizations, or any one of the hundred and one other projects that we seem to need to deliver by yesterday!
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How often do you see customer journeys, customer events and scenarios modelled in an Enterprise Architecture model? Not often, if at all I suspect. In my opinion, the ‘Enterprise’ in Enterprise Architecture should include all those stakeholders that are engaged with an organisation. This include all those suppliers and service providers to the left hand […]
Any business with more than more than one person within it will, at times, be faced with having to handle competing views. ‘Political’ agendas within a business can, if not moderated can be so destructive that the business can be … Continue reading →