Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
“How do I get a job as an enterprise-architect? Where do I go for that kind of job?” This is an obvious necessary follow-up to the post ‘On learning enterprise-architecture‘, and it’s a kind of question I get asked all…
Beliefs are powerful. Sometimes, to achieve something, all we need is to hold on to our beliefs. Then there are times when we can’t get where we want to be, unless our beliefs are seriously shaken and eventually changed. Beliefs can influence our capabilities. And the evidence of our capabilities can change our beliefs. Let’s […]
Following on from ‘Boundary of identity, boundary of control‘ and ’inside-out versus outside-in‘, perhaps the quickest way to understand the difference: the boundary-of-control delimits what the lawyers think the organisation is the boundary-of-identity delimits what everyone else thinks the organisation is…
I just recently had a conversation with a talented enterprise architect who had brought together the EA framework elements from numerous different sources in order to address the needs of his business. Included in that list was the Enterprise Bus…
What’s the boundary of the organisation? Boundary in what sense, and for whom? And how does this impact on enterprise-architecture and the like? These questions came up for me a short while ago when working on an article on enterprise-architecture…
I attended the summer school dealing with enterprise architecture that took place at IT University of Copenhagen in week 31 of 2012. A lot of interesting presentations and debates took place. I found quite a few interesting topics to think about and one of them dealt with the philosophy of enterprise architecture, which is the […]
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 […]