Dotting the joins
Have we gone dotty? – all the way out to the level of the entire economy? And if we have, what can we usefully do about it? It’s a metaphorical question, of course – but perhaps not quite in the…
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture: Closing the stable door before the horse has bolted.
There are likely to be times when a business will engage in some activity or make a product acquisition which, in hindsight, would prove to be less than beneficial. Perhaps in the enthusiasm generated through a vendor’s sales process the … Continue reading →
How to build a Roadmap – Prioritize (Part I)
This post discusses how to use the results from steps 1 – 3 to prioritize the actions we have identified to close the gap or difference (delta) from where we are to what we aspire to be. This is usually driven by evaluating the relative business value AND the technical complexity, plotting the results in a quadrant graph using an Action Priority Matrix. What we are doing here is IDENTIFYING what is feasible and what has the highest business value balancing business need with the capability to execute.
Demystifying Enterprise Architecture.
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 →
Enterprise Architecture Lifecycle
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 […]
Enterprise Architecture: A definition and implementation checklist.
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 →
Enterprise Architecture: Choosing appropriate solutions to address problem situations.
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 →
At Social Business Summit London 2013
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…
Business success – It’s all about choices
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 still in naivety proves Elusive to Big Picture and Randomness
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 […]
Enterprise Architecture in China: Who uses this stuff?
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 →
What is Natural Language Processing?
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.