On ‘T&C’
When presented with someone’s ‘terms and conditions’ dialog, how often do you read through the whole thing, and only then click the ‘I have read…’ checkbox, and move on? If you did actually read it, do you truly agree to…
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture – Navigating the Business
To manage a business effectively it is essential that decisions makers know Where the business is going? Why it is going there? How it will get there? How well it is travelling? What risks, constraints and external influences need to … Continue reading →
How to build a Roadmap – Define End State
This post will provide a little more exposition and insight into one method I have found useful in practice for quickly defining desired end states. Done well, it can provide an honest and objective look to successfully understand where we truly want to be as an organization and face the uncomfortable truth in some cases where we need to improve. 
The Open Group Sydney – My Conference Highlights
By Mac Lemon, MD Australia at Enterprise Architects Well the dust has settled now with the conclusion of The Open Group ‘Enterprise Transformation’ Conference held in Sydney, Australia for the first time on April 15-20. Enterprise Architects is proud to have been recognised at the event by The Open Group as being pivotal in the success of … … Continue reading →
Enterprise Architecture – Managing Risk
Engaging in business activity always has associated with it some element of risk. Embedded in each risk is a probability that some threat, damage, injury, liability, loss or other negative business effect, caused by external or internal factors, may occur. … Continue reading →
Creating a business context for Enterprise Architecture – Very Important!
As we saw in the last post, it is very important to understand that the most important aspect of Enterprise Architecture is alignment with business strategy. Cannot stress it enough – very very important!Technical architecture is important, cloud compu…
Costs of acquisition, retention, de-acquisition
How much does it cost to acquire a customer? To retain a customer? To lose a customer? And in what sense of ‘cost’? In part this one was triggered by reading through my relatively-new copy of Business Model You, and…
Right Sourcing book is out now!
Our new book, Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration, is now available for ordering at the publishers websites: US: http://lnkd.in/AWVXt6 UK: http://lnkd.in/vFCWZB Read more about the book and the project at http://sourcing-it.org Rien Dijkstra, John Gøtze and Pieter van der Ploug are the editors. The foreword … Continue reading →
Everyday sexism of the subtler kind
How does sexism and suchlike become invisibly ingrained in our society? Answer: whenever said sexism is promoted as ‘progressive thinking’… To many people, the term ‘sexism’ applies only to gender-imbalance that directly affects women: yet a few moments thought should…
The Business Model Canvas: Know Thy Business
As Enterprise Architects we drive to maximize value in our companies. With most EA teams residing within an IT area under a CIO we can find ourselves bogged down by the technology weighing down on decisions. The challenge with that…
IT or Business, which side are you on?
IT or Business?So you are an Enterprise Architect or a budding Enterprise Architect. Good for you!Let me ask you – even though your title says Enterprise Architect, are you still stuck with Technical Architecture only?Well, most of the EAs come from a …
Corso Introduces Roadmapping Support for TOGAF® 9 in its Strategic Planning Platform
By Martin Owen, CEO, Corso Last week, we announced new roadmapping support for TOGAF® in IBM Rational System Architect®, a leading Enterprise Architecture and modeling software. The new TOGAF extension supports the modeling, migration and implementation of an Enterprise Architecture within Corso’s Strategic Planning Platform, which integrates Enterprise Architecture, IT planning and strategic planning into … … Continue reading →