Examining the Current State of EA 2011

Today the Open Group has released their yearly state of enterprise architecture on their blog (http://blog.opengroup.org/2011/02/16/podcast-examining-the-state-of-ea-and-findings-of-recent-survey ). The panel discussion led by Dana Gardner with Interabor Solutions was recorded at the Open Group conference last week in San Diego. The…

Webcast: Enterprise Architecture Management with TOGAF

For those that want to learn about Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) alfabet who is a tools vendor is hosting a webcast on their thoughts on EAM. I would assume that they will illustrate that through their tool. Enterprise Architecture Management…

A week in Tweets: 06-12 February 2011

Another week – a busy one, this time. There were all the Tweets from the Open Group San Diego conference (previously posted here); but beyond that, two great back-and-forth conversations, on top of all the usual Tweets and links. Usual categories, of course: read more?

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and other ‘business’-type themes:

CreatvEmergence: “create without possessing, […]

Journal of Enterprise Architecture February 2011

Journal of Enterprise Architecture
February 2011 – Volume 7, Number 2
Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze
Architect in the Spotlight: Philip Allega
Articles
A conceptual framework for architecture principles
Erik Proper and Danny Greefhorst
A Process Driven Approach to Modelling Leadership
David Tuffley […]

Belonging

A great conversation yesterday with Australian facilitator Helena Read, around the word ‘belonging’, and how it links with vision and enterprise-vision.
In the enterprise, vision is the anchor for everything: the quality-system, the business-purpose, the enterprise itself. It’s a very human focus, literally emotive: “that which gets me out of bed in the morning”, and so […]

Believe in change

Part of what Architects do is to initiate change; but initiation is only the beginning. It’s not just enough to explain what change is going to happen; it’s also critical to explain why the change is necessary and what the impact that change will b…