Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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…
Haven’t been to New Zealand yet, but I will be there soon… From September 4 through 7 in Auckland, for TechEd New Zealand. I will be presenting two topics (Business architecture for non architects, and Aligning IT with capabilities).
Now, normally you wouldn’t see Enterprise Architecture topics on a TechEd calendar. However, in the NZ market, there just isn’t the demand for multiple Microsoft conferences every year. As a result, all the conference demand is bundled up into TechEd. Due to the efforts of Terry Chapman and the hard working architects in Microsoft New Zealand, the TechEd conference there has developed quite a reputation for hosting an advanced architecture track.
I’m fortunate to be attending and presenting. If you live or work in the region, I’d love to see you at TechEd New Zealand. If you would like to see more information about the sessions at TechEd NZ, click here.
Developing Enterprise Architecture Competencies from sboray
How can you use the tools of Enterprise Architecture and open standards to improve the capability of your company doing business? The Day 2 speakers of The Open Group Conference in Washington, D.C. addressed this question, focusing on Enterprise Transf…
As the cloud computing adaption and maturity accelerates, a number of case studies of early cloud migration are emerging. Ironically most of such case studies often talk about success of such migration and dynamic business and technology benefits it de…
As the cloud computing adaption and maturity accelerates, a number of case studies of early cloud migration are emerging. Ironically most of such case studies often talk about success of such migration and dynamic business and technology benefits it de…
The previous post on ‘Money, price and value in enterprise-architecture‘ was kinda long, so here’s a (somewhat) shorter summary: Background It’s fundamentally important that enterprise-architectures should incorporate the following assertions: there are many other forms of value besides money in…