Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Metal Bottle Cap Flowers (credit: urban woods walker)(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting”)EA exercises involve collecting a lot of data and distilling insights from them. It seems wasteful if the fruits …
(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting”)photo credit: Murilo Morais Enterprises are like often like elephants and the enterprises’ employees and stakeholders are like blind men in the classic story; they a…
photo credit: the pale side of insomnia(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting”)It is very difficult to document various aspects of an organization to the lowest level of detail or even to document the high …
During the Open Group Conference in Cannes I delivered a presentation on “Successfully implementing EA with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®”.Moreover, I joined as expert into a very interesting ‘ask the expert panel session’ with good questions from th…
During the Open Group Conference in Cannes I delivered a presentation on “Successfully implementing EA with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®”.Moreover, I joined as expert into a very interesting ‘ask the expert panel session’ with good questions from th…
by: Bill Cason – Troux CTO – May 1st, 2012
Articulating and measuring the business benefit of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has always been a bit tricky. But lately we have noticed this exercise is becomi…
Just came across a nice little provocative argument from Pankaj Ghemawat of IESE Business School Barcelona. He writes in his latest HBR article titled, “Who’s Afraid of a Few Big Companies Taking Over the World”. While I understand the principles whic…
photo credit: metropolitan police(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting”)When looking for gaps in the current stage architecture, a useful approach is start by “pushing from the top”—start with the enterpri…
photo credits: i k oLessons learnt as I reflect on a recent four-month Enterprise Architecting (EA) exercise. In the exercise, a 4-person team helped an organization map out where the organization was at, where it wanted to be and how it co…
Photo Credit: Giampaolo MacorigI finally got started on something that I had wanted to do for a long time: apply Enterprise Architecture know-how to help me plan my life. I have used EA techniques to help organisations and projects better underst…
Photo Credit: GustavoGThere is no doubt that social media has made a significant impact on our lives. Consumers get their information socially via articles and videos recommended by their friends, they buy things based on their friends’ recommendation…
Photo credit: jakeromeThere had been several rumors about Apple making a TV. Will this be another game changer, like the iPhone and iPad? Will Apple be able to leverage TV’s unique form factor to create a new paradigm for collaboration?Alre…