Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I’ve been involved with enterprise architecture since the early 1980s, so I think of myself as a second-generation architect. I learnt about enterprise architecture through a mixture of meeting other architects, reading widely around the subject and related disciplines, and, of course, through hard graft and experience. Nowadays there are many enterprise architects practising their art and science…
When I’m not an Enterprise Architect my 2nd career is as a musician – but I’ve got a problem – to control my artist profile on Spotify I need more than 250 followers on Spotify, and I’ve currently only got 93! So if you are using Spotify… would you “follow” me, so that I can claim my…
New online EA courseI’m frequently asked how does someone become an Enterprise Architect? A majority of these questions come from Solution Architects, so I’ve developed a new online course that answers the questions that solution architects ask about developing a career in enterprise architecture. The new course is now available along with two other courses. There are…
By Stuart Macgregor, CEO, Real IRM and The Open Group South Africa This is Part 2 of a two part series. Part 1 can be found here. The financial services industry is undergoing massive change. For financial services companies to … Continue reading →
And yes, another instalment for the business-novel that I’m working on at present – the previous posts to date have been for Chapters 00-03, Chapters 04-08, Chapters 09-12 and Chapters 13-18. (For reference, everything so far I’d written back in 2013, and this will…
And the next instalment of the business-novel that I’m working on at present. Previous posts have covered Chapters 00-03, Chapters 04-08 and Chapters 09-12. Most of the chapters in this instalment are just ‘mood-setting’ pieces that might well end up on the cutting-room floor in…
By Stuart Macgregor, CEO, Real IRM and The Open Group South Africa This is Part 1 in a two part series. Chapter 1 – Introduction The financial services industry is undergoing massive change. Around the world, organisations offering banking, lending, … Continue reading →
Children our our future. We all need to give them the best possible start in life, and help them through troubled times and need. Children in Need makes such a big difference to so many children every year. If you know about their work, this is just a reminder of the good things that they are doing today; if…
Written by Adrian Campbell A good analogy for an Enterprise Architecture capability is to think of it as the equivalence to an intelligence corps in the military. Military Leaders and business decision makers will use this Strategic Intelligence capability to: Know what their current capabilities are Know the capabilities of the enemy (competitors) are Understand […]
And the next instalment of business-novel that I’m working on at present. Previous posts have covered Chapters 00-03 and Chapters 04-08. More character-stuff in this extract – in particular, introducing Alicia and Pavel (of whom we’ll see a lot more), and Kim (of…
In “The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life’s Greatest Dilemmas” David Sloan Wilson elaborates on “The design principles for solving the tragedy of the commons”.
Garrett Hardin in the essay “The Tragedy…
Change and innovation are topics that have been prominent on this blog over the last year. In fact, Greger Wikstrand and I have traded a total of twenty-six posts (twenty-seven counting this one) on the subject. Greger’s last post, “Successful digitization requires focus on the entire customer experience – not just a neat app” […]