Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
It was the presence of the big-lens cameras that caught my eye, I guess… I’d just finished a great meetup in London yesterday with enterprise-architect Stuart Boardman, talking about the This-game, SCAN and requisite-variety, and their relation to Cloud and outsourcing.…
Something about the typical language of enterprise architecture is starting to bug me. The overuse of the word “alignment”. When people are asked to describe what enterprise architecture is all about, they often answer with the phrase “it’s about the alignment of IT with business strategy”. But is that enough? Should it be something more? […]
If the enterprise is a story, who are the actors in that story? What are their drivers and needs? How do we model and manage the relationships between those actors in the story? (This is part of an overview and…
What’s the fundamental difference between a for-profit organisation, and a not-for-profit one? Or, for that matter, between either of those and, say, a government department, or an NGO (non-governmental organisation)? Short answer: none – because every organisation is a for-profit organisation. The only…
Considering which features to realize should be dependent on time to market for the product and difficulty of realization. Properly used this little tool can help architects balance the organization cash flow. Using this kind of diagraming technique it’s easy to get a comparison overview across many products. 
A quick ‘public-service’ blog-post to document a possibly-useful conversation for enterprise-architects and others. Yesterday (6 June 2013) The Open Group ran a ‘tweet-jam‘ online-conversation, to: examine how convergent technologies such as Big Data, Social, Mobile and The Internet of Things are…
The SCAN frame provides a simple means to make sense of complexity and decision-making in almost any context. Yet is there perhaps an even simpler way to describe the principles and practice behind it? I’ve been nibbling at that question for quite…
By E.G. Nadhan, HP I look forward with great interest to the upcoming Open Group conference on EA & Enterprise Transformation in Finance, Government & Healthcare in Philadelphia in July 2013. In particular, I am interested in the sessions planned on … Continue reading →
The ability to make accurate, informed and timely decisions is critical if a business is to perform at its best. The decision making process however is affected in some individuals by behavioural characteristics that is manifest in serial procrastination. Procrastinators … Continue reading →
Complacency is a significant barrier to realising on-going business success. Coasting along on the back of past success does not position a business for the future. Not actively and continually engaging with the market is akin to putting your head … Continue reading →
By Patty Donovan, The Open Group Last week, we announced our upcoming tweet jam on Thursday, June 6 at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. BST, which will examine how convergent technologies such as Big Data, Social, Mobile and The Internet of … Continue reading →
Establishing an Enterprise Architecture to support change and decision making within a business should not be undertaken in an ad-hoc manner. Many businesses will already have significant information that they can feed into an Enterprise Architecture. They should however step … Continue reading →