Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
@Cybersal complains about Amazon. “Yet again Amazon ships a tiny book with an unreliable courier that my postman could have shoved through my letterbox.” and explains “Post office 10 min walk. Courier depot 30 min drive. Courier not a good option fo…
I’ve just been reading Geoffrey Moore’s new white paper Systems of Engagement and The Future of Enterprise IT : A Sea Change in Enterprise IT (AIIM 2011). He calls out a major shift of emphasis in IT, from what he calls Systems of Record (focused on tr…
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April 11th. “No Intelligence Without Feedback”…
Unicom has released a limited number of places on my Organizational Intelligence workshop next week, at a special price of £195 plus VAT. To apply for one of these places, please contact Unicom as soon as possible, quoting code OI-9211-W5. This off…
#entarch #orgintelligence In an earlier post, I pointed out the architectural trade-off between Complexity and Power. There may be a choice between a simple-but-inefficient solution and a more sophisticated solution, and this choice has important struc…
In some recent posts, I have talked about embedding different forms of intelligence in a business process. Intelligence may make the process more powerful, or it may merely make it more internally efficient. But in the examples I’ve looked at so far, t…
@inmagic ‘s Phil Green suggests an Enterprise 2.0 Best Practice: Unite Internal Collaboration with External Communication (CMS Wire Nov 29, 2010)
As he points out, internal and external are often disconnected. Clearly, different tools are appropriat…
My blogpost on The Startling Cost of Inefficient Collaboration started from the observation that “too much collaboration can be bad”. But how much is too much?
Too Little Barely Enough Just Right More Than Enough Too M…
In my previous post Collaboration Chasm, I looked at the adoption of collaboration technology in the enterprise, drawing on Collaboration Framework published by the CISCO community earlier this year [Insights from the Collaboration Consortium Year On…
#entarch A debate on Twitter about the power of enterprise architects (enhancing? enabling? influencing?), and another debate about the relationship between architecture and knowledge (does architecture count as a form of knowledge?) led to a question …
This post is based on Chapter 3 of Gareth Morgan’s classic book Images of Organization (Sage 1986), which opens with the following question: “Is it possible to design organizations so that they have the capacity to be as flexible, resilient, and in…
An enterprise operates at several different tempi. For example
A retail chain has one tempo aligned to the customer visiting the store, a longer tempo for purchasing and logistics, and a longer one still for planning and establishing new stores
A mili…