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The third Higher Education CIO challenge focuses on cloud computing services. These offerings allow higher education CIOs to radically re-think their enterprise architectures. “In the 2011 CIO agenda, 64% of higher education CIOs expected to move m…
Management information is not particular difficult to produce, it is difficult to make use of. Management information can be produced in quite a few ways and supported by quite a few methods, but too much management information will eventually clutter the line of sight of the decision makers and as such work against holistic management. […]
What’s the difference between a framework and a body-of-knowledge? A colleague asked me to write some notes on this, and it seems worthwhile doing so in more generally-available form – in other words, a blog-post. To me this is much…
Following on from the previous post ‘Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test‘, there’s an important corollary about real-time sensemaking and and decision-making – it was in my notes for the post, but I forgot to include it, so I’ll do…
Setting up an Enterprise Architecture (EA) function in an organisation requires a structured approach which delivers results. In this series we give practical tips and guidelines in implementing EA in different types of organisations. In the previous p…
This article is also available as a PDF document. Could businesses benefit from applying different architectural styles to design systems in different areas of the enterprise, just as cities apply different architectural styles for designing Cathedrals, Town Halls, and Bazaars? Applying different architectural styles would practically imply that when designing a system for finance we […]
It started with one of those first-thing-in-the-morning ideas that seemingly turn up from nowhere: Principles create a bridge between order and chaos. Order is expressed in rules; principles are expressed in story. Order, principles and chaos: order is an abstraction…
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet “Complexity theory predicts that we cannot rely on predictions.” This post is a series of excerpts from the following brilliant presentation on Complexity Theory. […]
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Chris Armstrong previews his session at the upcoming Open Group conference in Washington, D.C. titled, “Using TOGAF 9 to Deliver DoDAF 2 Capabilities.” If you are not attending the conference, Chris’ session will be broadcast via Livestream on Monday, …
Using the analogy of the popular game of Tetris, this diagram explains the dynamic and ever-changing challenges of Enterprise Architecture through the use of a static picture. This diagram was originally created to explain the need for Enterprise Architecture to business executives at the C-Level of an organization (e.g. CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, etc.). The original […]
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet Here is a free, un-formatted slide deck that describes some of the key benefits that can be gained from applying Enterprise Architecture. It can […]