Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Not a simple question to answer, but perhaps we can find some guidance in Aldo Leopold’s statement “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tend otherwise.” Transforming that statement into architecture for the enterprises could be done in many […]
Marhaba! This is my first post from my new home at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. I have been here for 10 days and am finally feeling like a human being again. The +11 hour time difference and jet lag really took a toll on me (aside from jumping right […]
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How can we clarify the confusion over service, capability and function in enterprise-architecture models? Andrew Marosy made a comment to my previous post on this that really needs to be brought out here in full: You can also visualise a…
How can we distinguish between service, capability and function in enterprise-architecture models? This is one of those perennial questions that keeps returning time and time again, and it’s one of the key confusions that Enterprise Canvas aims to resolve. But…
At my company we have found a nice way to get future-oriented discussions going. We have a workshop format for discussing current strategy and trends in order to define the most important capabilities for the future. These workshops have really been a good way to make people think about things that will be important in […]
What is the theory underlying enterprise-architecture? This was a question that came up in a group email-discussion earlier today, and it’s probably worth bringing out into a more public arena so that other people can come and play with it…
This post will provide a little more exposition and insight into one method I have found useful in practice for quickly defining current state. Done well, it can provide an honest and objective look in the mirror to successfully understand where we truly are as an organization and face the uncomfortable truth in some cases where we need to improve. 
What can we do about skills-shortages – the paucity of people with appropriate skills and experience for the needs of our organisation and enterprise? Is the market-mechanism of scarcity-pricing the right way to resolve this? A quick bit of background:…
Enterprise architecture research is on my agenda these days. I would very much like to hear from scholars with views on things like: Which journals should enterprise architecture researchers read? (apart from JEA) Which journals should enterprise architecture researchers publish in? (apart from JEA) Which conferences should enterprise architecture researchers attend? Other relevant information about enterprise architecture …read more
All people have their own “filters” that they apply unconciously in interactions with other people. This means that two people sharing the same experience can have different opinions on what actually happened. In order to better understand each other we need to realize these differences in perception. As architects we also apply filters to our surrounding […]
What are the respective roles of enterprise-architecture and solution-architecture? How do they relate with respect to each other – and with respect, too? I’ve been having a great back-and-forth on this on LinkedIn with Donald Lawn, an IT-oriented architect down…
I was on a walk with my wife and our dog the other day and our conversation led to some of the problems we encounter at work. My wife is a Registered Nurse at a large acute care hospital. She has an amazing wealth of experience caring for very sick people. She told me about […]
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