Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Have been struggling hard for the past few days with a truly brilliant challenge from Bulgarian enterprise-architect Ivo Velitchkov, when he dropped by for a visit near here over the weekend. And I’d have to admit I’m no nearer solving it as yet. Hmm… His point is this: there’s a huge body of knowledge – […]
How do we prove the value of our work? How we defend that value against unprincipled attack? These are real questions that we all need to face, especially in inherently-’unprovable’ disciplines such as enterprise-architecture. So let’s put these questions into practice. Several people have asked me for a detailed worked-example of the sensemaking-technique of context-space mapping […]
There are several characteristic features of so-called smart content.
Content enhanced to be fit-to-purpose … content that is organized and structured for customer tasks and needs, not just for the production, packaging and distribution of physic…
Another week’s worth of Tweets and links, for once almost on time. Usual categories, of course, with a few extra bits and pieces as usual. Over to you? Enterprise-architecture, business architecture and that kind of stuff: practicingEA: At an engagement yesterday client kept using the word ‘enterprise’ 2 mean big company IT…hmmm. Not what #entarch […]
Wikipedia defines Consilience as the unity of knowledge (literally a “jumping together” of knowledge), which has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process.
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Another week’s collection of Tweets and links – somewhat oversized this time, don’t quite know why. Usual categories, anyway, after the usual break: Enterprise-architecture and the other ‘business big-picture’ stuff: SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia Network analysis in innovation may surprise us http://bit.ly/nDy4eA ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: (high-level) Enterprise Backbone of Nespresso http://bit.ly/mOJTuL #entarch #bizarch >>plus comment […]
It’s back again, by popular (lack of?) demand: another week’s collection of Tweets and links. All the usual categories, confusions and all-too-necessary break before we start: Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture and the ‘business big-picture’: SAlhir: RT @complexified “Secrets of the Six Principles” – great primer on #complexity in orgs, and case studies. [PDF] http://bit.ly/q6JPcR thoughttrans: Can roadmaps […]
Another week’s worth of Tweets and links, for once available almost straight away. Usual categories an’ all: make of it what you will? Enterprise-architecture, strategy, innovation and all the ‘business big-picture’ themes: gkathan: RT @simplicableanna: Why Enterprise Architects need to understand games http://bit.ly/pSg4eQ #entarch #cio >sorry, but I still can’t see past the hype to […]
Following on from the previous work on EA metamodels, I keep coming back to those two questions from Graeme Burnett: for everything in a context, we need to be able to ask “tell me about yourself?” and “tell me what you’re associated with?”. That focus does help to keep things simple here… (Please remember that […]
And, for once, not overly late… Another week’s collection of Tweets and links, always the same(ish) structure, always different content. Enterprise-architecture and the kind of big-picture stuff that business will need: tetradian: [post] EA metamodel and method http://bit.ly/q2Qc5R #entarch (thx @ArtBourbon @pbmobi @adraffin @Robert_Phipps) gkathan: RT @jukkaam: Finding Opportunities in Business Model Innovation: business model […]
Almost catching up for once: only one week late. Another collection of Tweets and links, anyway, all in the usual format and so on. Enterprise-architecture and the usual ‘big-picture for business’ stuff: gkathan: RT @pbmobi: The 7 Rules of Tubemapping http://wp.me/Piayu-oC #entarch #storytelling gkathan: Perspectives of Enterprising, Architecture & Systems: Enterprising http://bit.ly/petnf1 #entarch >summary of […]
Following on from the previous post on ‘Simplifying the Enterprise Canvas‘, a few more notes on how to use the notation, and some practical matters on modelling. Perhaps not quite as technical as some of the other recent posts, but I’ll admit that if enterprise-architectures and the like are not of much interest to you, […]