Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Presently, we have all these diagrams stored in various places in the enterprise but no two are linked together or consistent. They do not employ the same components, connections, notations or tool.
Yet, we need to assemble all models in an EA, th…
To avoid the ever debate on Enterprise Architecture scope, i.e. IT versus the whole enterprise business, technology and people, I call the enterprise wide architecture Enterprise Model (EM), rather than Enterprise Architecture (EA), and …
To avoid the ever debate on the scope of Enterprise Architecture, IT vs the enterprise, I call Enterprise Modelling, rather than Enterprise Architecture (EA), the enterprise wide architecture, that covers business, technology and people.
In the old days I would have liked to have an idiot’s manual to guide me through the steps of modelling the Architecture of the Enterprise I was working for. I am not talking about the practices of organization, risks, requirements… which fram…
Imagine an Enterprise Model (EM) we can rotate, section in various ways, zoom in and out, as with this tool that helps us inspect and understand the human body.
We can examine certain systems, functions and flows as if they exist in isolation. For…
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Anyway, EA was buried in commercial interests much too early, before even having a chance to get a proper and stable body of knowledge and begin to deliver. There are few EAs in the industry, if any, EAs that we can navigate but …
Enterprise Architecture (EA) has great potential, no doubt about it.
Because it can describe the enterprise in a structured manner as never before.
Think of the Enterprise as a virtual body consisting of parts, processes, systems, peo…