Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
If you wish to employ Business Models in your enterprise analysis and strategy specification, you may first have to understand what that is. A Business Model shows how a company goes about its business to be able to return value/profit. Repr…
The Definition of Enterprise Architecture, revisited (ii)Aug 24, 2007 Enterprise Architecture is more than the sum of its parts; it is about the governance (mind) and the culture (soul) of the Enterprise (body).The definition of Enterprise Archite…
The enterprise is stable at its core. It has been so for centuries. The invariability of value chains and process frameworks stand proof of that. Key business strategies are also few and well known: diversification, expansion in markets and creation of…
Conflict at work often appears when competent people come to challenge the status quo, the inertia, amongst other reasons.Also a factor is the poor organisation of the enterprise with confusing roles and overlaying responsibilities that create tension …
There are a lot of articles floating around about the role of the CIO. Is there a problem? The questions seems to be about where is the role going. Clearly, something is on people’s mind. But what is happening? The CIO world is stirred, if …
This is a long comment for the HBR blog on “Why your analytics are failing you” that states that “the real challenge is recognizing that using big data and analytics to better solve problems and/or make decisions obscures the organizational reality tha…
Is EA a story? Nick Malik’s post Enterprise Architecture as Story needs commenting upon.To me the question is, are we going back on “A picture says a thousand words”? After all, EA is an architecture or, if you like, the blueprint of the ente…
Chronic underinvestment in IT is now more prevalent given the economic climate of the past few years. Excellent post on the critical concept of technical debt. Technical Debt – What it is and what to do about it.Filed under: Business … Continue reading →
The big news, from my point of view, from VMworld in Barcelona was the announcement that VMware has acquired the Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) vendor Desktone. VMware is probably the leading vendor for enterprise virtual desktop technology (i.e. virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI – with their Horizon product line) – though Citrix might dispute this. Desktone are […]
If you are looking at a significant use of cloud computing, have you considered what this might mean for your network? Corporate networks are an often overlooked factor when thinking about cloud computing. The problem is that cloud computing increases the criticality of your network, because if your network isn’t available then your cloud services […]
This blog post is sponsored by T-Systems and the Zero Distance community. Cloud and the consumerisation of IT have changed the face of end user computing, and the desktop in particular irrevocably. When I look at the shape of end user computing, how much it has changed over the last couple of years, and what the future […]
..continued from previous.As suspected, the approach ends up with a process map, sliding back into familar territory to BP Trends.The process map (here is the process architecture method again) consists of Management, Core and Support p…