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…

Cloud Conference — and Unconference

Wednesday at The Open Group Conference in San Diego included a formal Cloud Computing conference stream. This was followed in the evening by an unstructured CloudCamp, which made an interesting contrast. Continue reading

Integration of strategic, project and process KPIs

Some organisations, after straggling to implement Balanced Scorecard Systems (BSC), come to the conclusion that they need to at least map their processes. But then the challenge they face is how to link strategic with process KPIs. Others are practising some sort of BPM but have difficulties demonstrating its contribution to the bottom line. As […]