Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I’ve just been going back over some notes from the last six months. Here are some links that I have found particularly interesting or useful: 8 takeaways from IRM’s UK Enterprise Architecture Conference 2016 What makes an Enterprise Architect The End of EA and IT as we know it Ten practical ideas for organizing and managing your…
Agile is a way of changing things.
Agility is a quality of the things you want to change.
If moving one block is going to bring down the tower, being agile won’t help much.
And being agile doesn’t stop you building lots and lots of towers.
Photo: Antony Mayfield
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Agile is a way of changing things.Agility is a quality of the things you want to change. If moving one block is going to bring down the tower, being agile won’t help much.And being agile doesn’t stop you building lots and lots of towers.Photo: Antony M…
Agility is the ability to change direction quickly.
The paradox of agility is that it is that the slower you are moving the faster you can change direction.
Just going really fast, in the belief that speed is agility, can lead to a nasty, sudden stop.
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Agility is the ability to change direction quickly.The paradox of agility is that it is that the slower you are moving the faster you can change direction.Just going really fast, in the belief that speed is agility, can lead to a nasty, sudden stop.Pho…
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In 2014, I recognized something was a bit off with all the big data excitement and I started interviewing companies to get to the bottom of it. In 2015, Ted Schadler and I published the first of my ideas in the report “Digital Insights Are The New Currency Of Business.” In that report, we pointed out what was wrong – big data only focused on how to turn more data into more insight. It didn’t say anything about how to turn that insight into more action. In that report we defined a system of insight, which focused big data energy on implementing insights in software using closed loops that create action and continous learning. In this year’s Top Emerging Technologies To Watch report, we evaluated sytems of insight technologies that were creating the most change, and we found many. For example:
Insight Platforms: Data management and analytics are not separate technologies anymore. Open source and cloud have made it so easy for vendors to combine these technologies into a platform – but things don’t stop there. Add insight-to-execution technologies like predictive model runtimes and you get a platform that is ideal for building closed-loop systems of insight. Our latest vendor and user surveys indicate that insight platforms are hot, hot. Expect to see more data and analytics tools merge into platforms this year.
In the previous post ‘Decisions, decisions…‘, I promised to list the tools for sensemaking, strategy, modelling, metagovernance and the like, for use in enterprise-architectures and similar fields, that I’ve been working on over this past decade or so. So here…
How often is an established Enterprise Architecture approach used to create a Target Operating Model? If the answer is not often, then why not? If the answer is yes all the time, then how should we go about creating one ? Are traditional consultancy approaches to target operating models good enough? What is an Operating […]
One of the more challenging aspects of reaching so-called ‘retirement age’ is how much it refocusses attention towards one’s legacy rather than the new. There’s so darned much in my back-catalogue that still needs finishing before I run out of…
A quick status-report to say where I’m getting to so far with the business of ‘not-retiring‘. What I did in the previous post was to list the probable options for what I could/should do next. Given that the amount of…
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