Enterprise Architecture

The Open Group Panel Explores How the Big Data Era Now Challenges the IT Status Quo

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We recently assembled a panel of experts to explore how Big Data changes the status quo for architecting the enterprise. The panel consisted of Robert Weisman, CEO and Chief Enterprise Architect at Build The Vision; Andras Szakal, Vice President and CTO of IBM’s Federal Division; Jim Hietala, Vice President for Security at The Open Group, and Chris Gerty, Deputy Program Manager at the Open Innovation Program at NASA. I served as the moderator. Continue reading →

Knowing What You Have Supports Planning

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Enterprise Architects all over the world build guiding principles to support their practices and planning. We built one in 2005 and it still holds true today. “Reuse before Acquire, Acquire before Create, Create Reusable Components” The big problem with this is that it is all “Motherhood and Apple Pie” unless you do the hard work […]

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Deep Thinking on The Architecture of Architecture: Meta-Architecture

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As many of you have already have known, Enterprise Architecture and Architecture within the context of sociotechnical organization is going through what I believe a renaissance period.  
The architecture field is moving to more of an in…

Four principles for a sane society: Summary

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How do we make sense of the big-picture in enterprise-architecture? The really big-picture? For those who didn’t (or couldn’t!) read the full series, here’s a (shortish) summary of each of those (rather over-long) posts… From the Introduction Part of the work I’ve been…

Deep Thinking on The Architecture of Architecture: Meta-Architecture

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As many of you have already have known, Enterprise Architecture and Architecture within the context of sociotechnical organization is going through what I believe a renaissance period.   The architecture field is moving to more of an interdisciplinary art and science.    Also many architects, myself included, have been trained on producing goal oriented systems.  This teleological approach based…

Four principles – 4: Adaptability is everything

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How do we work with change – and, especially, extreme-change – in an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the fifth in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1:…

JEA XL: Journal of Enterprise Architecture 2013-1

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Back in November 2012, as chief editor of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, I faced an ebb in qualified submissions and decided to postpone the next number. I solicited more submissions and soon decided that a way to make up for a missing number would be to release an extra thick “double-issue” – JEA XL. Almost …read more

Four principles – 3: Money doesn’t matter

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What’s the real role of money within design for an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? [Apologies, folks: this one’s turned out to be really long, even by my usual standards – but unfortunately this theme is so darn controversial that it really does need the…

On Demand Broadcasts from Day One at The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach

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Since not everyone could make the trip to The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach, we’ve put together a recap of day one’s plenary speakers. Stay tuned for more recaps coming soon! Continue reading →

Planning the contribution of the leader among architects

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In an earlier post I’ve laid out the Wheel of Leadership as a tool for the leader among architects. In this post I’ll visualize some of the approaches one can have as one employ the Wheel of Leadership. Pure forward flow In the pure forward flow each part of the wheel of leadership is addressed […]