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Following on from my blog on “Beware the new silos!” today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based too…
Following on from my blog on “Beware the new silos!” today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based too…
Anything IT does should be seen as consistent. Using words like “Principle” with the definition most people have for it is a sure-fire way to disappoint folks. It turns out that instead of a iron clad ‘always-will-do’ thing, our Principles are merely s…
I had the pleasure to host a session by Dr Tim O’Neill at the British Computer Society’s Enterprise Architecture Specialist Group a few weeks ago. Dr O’Neill is the faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology, Sydney, though cur…
I cannot take credit for that aphorism… credit goes to Jan Van Til. He coined the term after reading Tom Graves’ excellent post on the architecture of responsibility. Tom’s post details the philosophical challenges of a responsibility…
The word ‘value’ has too many meanings and sometimes it masks a real problem. I had a conversation with a very smart customer recently, where their IT division is going through a transformation to help their business compete. I asked …
Davos, Switzerland, becomes the temporary capital of the planet this time of the year as world leaders converge to tackle pressing global economic and policy questions at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). It is much more than a …
We are used to the idea of a Programme/Project Management Office (PMO) but often organisations fail to understand (or perhaps deliberately misunderstand) what the Enterprise Architecture function does. I propose that the Enterprise Architecture function is, in effect, an Office of the CEO, or an Office of the CEO and Strategic Change Management. The book […]
I am an Enterprise Architect. It is my job to look at things the way they are, and envision the things that should be. It is my role to describe specific actions that specific people can take to change things (systems, processes, corporate …
According to ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick’s coverage of the recent Gartner Application Architecture, Development, and Integration summit, SOA governance and siloed thinking is top of mind. If this really is the case, how do we make our governance efforts more effective? The more I think about this, the more I come back to a recent post […]
I recently picked up a copy of Troux Enterprise Architecture Solutions by Richard Reese. I have worked with Troux in a variety of capacities in the past along with stacking them up with the other large Enterprise Architecture Tool vendors….
I’ve often heard “soft” metaphors used when discussing Enterprise Architects. Some compare EA to the grease in a machine… necessary for the machine to run but we don’t provide the energy for progress so much as we reduce the friction.&#…