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With something as big and complicated as the entire enterprise, it’s not uncommon for customers to look for help after seeing an enterprise architecture (EA) effort collapse. One of the most frequent reasons their efforts crumble is that they …

One of the central themes at The Open Group Conference Rome 2010 was that a successful Enterprise Architecture must focus more on the business than on IT plumbing. That might sound like “Mom and Apple Pie” but several presentations descri…

No architect (if he/she can help it) designs a building that will never be constructed, and no enterprise architect wants to create a model that will just sit on the shelf and not be used to guide organizational decision making. Sadly this is the f…

Often getting access to a specific scientific journal can be very cumbersome or expensive, unless you have bulk access through an academic or research institution. In the past few weeks I have been looking for journal articles at the intersection of En…

Here are some definitions of Enterprise Architecture provided by organisations with direct involvement in the development of EA: JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee – UK): Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an enterprise-wide approach for alig…

In my ongoing research, I have identified a close link between enterprise architecture/engineering and systems science. P. Harmon, the prominent business process thinker and author of the book Business Process Change (K. Harmon 2007), Hoogervorst (2009…

An architectural fundamental is that things that are not related should not cause failure on each others’ part. The printer breaking should not stop the processing of orders. It does stop the printing of orders (duh), but should not stop the processing…

In our work with more than 200 organizations, we’ve found two groups of customers: Those who previously tried to create an Enterprise Architecture (EA) function but failed, and those who knew they needed a successful EA function to transform t…

Yet again it is time for an update on my thesis progress. After revising my initial introductory chapter with my supervisor (John Gotze), I decided to revamp the chapter completely and go forward with a more tangible problem: the failure of strategic I…

Cataloging your applications to get rid of those you don’t need makes so much sense it’s easy to forget how hard it can be to build such a portfolio. Here are six rules for simplifying your portfolio so you can cut costs and align your …

I have spent the last few days reviewing the most contemporary Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks. As I am trying to establish a common description of the methodology behind EA, my goal is to sketch the intersection of methodological assumptions t…