Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
In case you hadn’t noticed, there are some big changes happening right now in the wider world… Lots and lots of them, at every scale and in just about every major context, from political to social, environmental to technological, and much else besides.
Myself, I look at all of these things with an enterprise-architect’s eye – […]
In work, the Chief Architect receives his instructions from the CEO. Having allocated the people, the Chief Architect must build the team by blending and harmonizing the different elements thereof before marketing their services. After that, comes tactical maneuvering to position the team as a high performing unit within the larger organization. The difficulty of […]
A somewhat skimpy week of Tweets and links this time, as I missed out on most of a couple of days in transit from Australia back to England: hope it’s useful, anyway. Usual categories, of course: over to you?
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and other business-type stuff:
oscarberg: “We must destroy the concept of the CEO. The […]
Introduction of a basic pattern for developing a robust road map for any organization using an example of the adoption of a Master Data Management initiative.
Spent part of this week at the Integrated Enterprise Architecture conference in London. And for me, it was a real refreshing change from the usual banks / insurance / finance / tax focus of most of what passes for ‘enterprise’-architecture these days. Instead of the (literally) imaginary world of money and information, almost all of the […]
Whatever modeling or tools or methodologies one may adapt for EA, there should be a connect to the fundamental forces that shape the thinking of the enterprise. I think it is very important that we be aware of the forces of influence of our enterprises…
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April 11th. “No Intelligence Without Feedback”…
The word ‘value’ has too many meanings and sometimes it masks a real problem. I had a conversation with a very smart customer recently, where their IT division is going through a transformation to help their business compete. I asked …
I’ve come to think that a BIG problem that stops organizations from actually harvesting the benefits from all the fantastic knowledge, services and products of its change suppliers is the fact that they are forced to act as integrators of domains outside of their defined business model. This is especially true when it comes to […]
This post is an early draft of a much larger writing. I’m not sure I’ll find the time to elaborate on this part so I’m brain dumping it here as is… I love to ride my MTB and I love to race. Another thing I do is deal with architects of different types (enterprise architects, […]
Markets and Drifting Most organizations operates within an environment that develops constant changes, that enforce the need for innovation and change within the enterprise. The market usually ensures that the enterprise has to re-structure, re-organize and adapt to the situation … Continue reading →
Running late again – apologies… (Would you accept “out of my skull on jet-lag” as an excuse? ) The links and Tweets from last week, anyway: usual categories, of course, preceded by the usual ‘Read more’ link.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and related businessy stuff:
getstoried: RT @BBrands: Your brand is far more that […]