More on ‘No jobs for generalists’
Wow… My previous post ‘There are no jobs for generalists‘ certainly touched a nerve: it’s been my most popular post for months, with so far (barely a day later) well over 1,000 reads, and some 35 ReTweets so far on…
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture (EA) versus Enterprise IT Architecture debate
After all, it is still the case today that the “company is the people” as EA describes, rather than “the company is the IT” as in EITA. But EITA delivers now, while the EA still promises.
Challenges to Building a Global Identity Ecosystem
In this fifth video – Building a Global Identity Ecosystem – we highlight what we need to change and develop to build a viable identity ecosystem. The Internet is global, so any identity ecosystem similarly must be capable of being adopted and implemen…
Why enterprise-architecture must be broader than just IT
Yes, I admit it, I made that classic mistake again: I allowed myself to get engaged in an EA discussion on LinkedIn… This one started from the – to my mind – absurd and then insulting notion that EA is…
There are no jobs for generalists
“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 and Capabilities
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 […]
More on boundary of identity versus control
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…
Aligning the EBMM with Archimate
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…
Boundary of identity, boundary of control
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…
Philosophy of 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 […]
ArchiMate 2.0 – Ready for the Future of Enterprise Architecture!
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. …
The enterprise architects way of driving on Manhattan
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 […]