Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I post here in response to this post of Gartner’s: “Enterprise architects: Please leave your framework at the door”.Please don’t, that is, leave the EA framework at the door. You do it at your own peril.Because a good framework is like the…
By Patty Donovan, The Open Group On Thursday, June 6, The Open Group will host a tweet jam examining Platform 3.0™ and why businesses require it to remain relevant in today’s fast paced internet enabled business environment. Over recent years … Continue reading →
by Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS Recently, I attended a one-day healthcare transformation event in Toronto. The master of ceremony, a renowned doctor, asked the speakers to be provocative in how to tackle the issues in healthcare and healthcare delivery … Continue reading →
The effectiveness of an operational Enterprise Architecture should be measured just like any other business initiative that has been put into production. Unless there is a demonstrable benefit to the business it will always be regarded as an overhead and … Continue reading →
Risk that is not understood can present as much or more danger to a business than one which has not been foreseen. All decisions will have some element of risk associated with them and how the risk is to be … Continue reading →
We discussed Who is Your Customer? in my previous post, now it is time to start to think about what services we deliver to our community. After running an exercise on identifying our customers and the categories they fit in, we started to work on the services we deliver to our University community. The IT […]
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This is the sixteenth post in my series on BYOD. In my last post on the subject I discussed a range of technologies that can be used to solve issues raised by BYOD. Here I’d like to give my broad recommendations around which of those technologies are most likely to solve the kinds of problems […]
An Enterprise Architecture, supporting a business, is an extremely valuable asset. It is however very easy, when populating it with knowledge garnered from the business, to use it as a dumping ground for everything: ‘just in case it becomes useful’. … Continue reading →
What is a narrative-oriented approach to enterprise-transformation? Why use it, and where, and how? And where did all this NOTES stuff come from, anyway? NOTES is, I admit, a somewhat-forced acronym for a way to look at business-change: Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise…
An Enterprise Architecture gives its user the opportunity of exploring the business from end-to-end. Instead of only having a ‘blinkered’ or ‘narrow’ view of only isolated parts of the business the user is able to gain a holistic perspective. The … Continue reading →
An Enterprise Architecture supports the ability perceive the business holistically by providing an end-to-end view of its multiple dimensions. An Enterprise Architecture provides visibility of What the business does. Why is does it. How it does it. How well it … Continue reading →
The May number of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture is now available to AEA members. This number contains a good blend of fine articles: Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze Architect in the Spotlight: Chris Bird Towards Enterprise Architecture-Infused Organizations By Bjorn Cumps, Stijn Viaene, Pascal Dussart, Joachim Vanden Brande The EARScorecard – An Instrument to Assess the Effectiveness […]