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By Henry Franken, BIZZdesign Models have played an important role in business for a long time. Process models, information- and data models, application landscapes, strategic models, operational models – you name it, organizations have tried it. …
When I was in New York City a few years ago I went by taxi from the airport to my hotel on Manhattan. I had looked into the maps and knew where my hotel was. But the taxi driver just crossed the street we were going to. I commented on this to the driver, afraid […]
A few days ago Pradeep (I don’t know his surname, unfortunately) wrote a comment to one of my previous posts, asking for advice on learning enterprise-architecture: I aspire to become a enterprise architect. Not sure if you have written on a…
For enterprise-architects, the Olympics provides a great illustration of the difference between ‘the enterprise’ and ‘the organisation’. Although in business it’s quite common to regard ‘enterprise’ and ‘organisation’ as synonyms for each other, for enterprise-architecture its wisest to use the…
Architecture is a concept everyone knows, but what is architecture actually? In Chapter 2.2 of TOGAF 9.1 it says: TOGAF embraces but does not strictly adhere to ISO/IEC 42010:2007 terminology. Yet, in its list of definitions, TOGAF attributes ISO/IEC 42010:2007 when it defines architecture: 1. A formal description of a system, or a detailed plan …read more
I have been fortunate to participate in the Enterprise Architecture summer school that took place in week 31 in year 2012 at the IT University of Copenhagen. There where a lot of interesting presenters, academics and practitioners. One of the more notable presenters where Martin van den Berg who happens to be one of the […]
A quick follow-on from the previous post on ‘Complex, complicated and Einstein’s dice‘, in relation to effectiveness in enterprise-architecture. There’s a common phrasing in business and elsewhere that places efficiency and effectiveness as kind-of opposites: efficiency, we’re told, is doing things…
Defeat Darwinian Enterprise Model that is Adaptive, rather strive to achieve Generative Model that is transformative creating rich diversity from minimal sets. Connect – Strategy – Architecture / Operations – Implementation
Last week, I accepted a 2 year contract as the Director of Information Technology at the American University of Sharjah in the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Sharjah is one of seven emirates that are federated together to form th…
DoD EA Competencies Development Framework
Metaphor For Generative TransformationGenerative Transformation is prompted by system. It is driven by the ecosystem in a top-down manner. Developing integrative effect the ecosystem creates invigorating environment, for those living within to start cr…