Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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 →
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 →