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Last week I was in Berlin at the invitation of the IEEE to help develop standards for responsible technology (P7000). One of the working groups (P7001) is looking at transparency, especially in relation to autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. In thi…
On Oct 21, I will be giving (at Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2019 in London) a half-day workshop titled “Setting up Effective Architecture Governance Without a Formal EA Framework”. Come join me (during possibly the last franti…
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a conference – eldercare-commitments have rather limited my options for longer-distance travel over the past year or two. In that sense at least, the Intersection19 enterprise-design conference in Lisbon was a very welcome…
How can business architecture help execute strategic vision? This two-day workshop led by Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Brian Cameron explores the ways you can structure your business architecture to effectively facilitate strategy execution.
Last week, someone asked me how I go about producing a data model. I found out afterwards that my answer was considered too brief. So here’s a longer version of my answer.The first thing to consider is the purpose of the modelling. Sometimes there is a…
Its the most natural thing in the world to want to promise things to customers to keep them happy. This blog discusses the dangers of that. Continue reading →
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On September 11, 2019 I finally obtained my PhD for my thesis “Improving IT Decisions with Enterprise Architecture”. You can find my thesis here. The summary: One of the often mentioned applications of enterprise architecture (EA) is decision-making support. EA … Continue reading →
Introduction: In this article, we talk to Wolfgang Goebl, founder…
The US Air Force-hosted The Open Group FACE™ & SOSA™ Expo and Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) event was held on September 17, 2019 in Dayton, Ohio at the Dayton Convention Center.
One of the biggest challenges in making Enterprise Architecture successful is ensuring proper communication with business stakeholders. Enterprise Architecture is quite often perceived as a discipline of the IT organization (where unfortunately also ma…
The Open Group IT4IT™ Reference Architecture, a standard of The Open Group uses a value chain framework that applies this concept to IT by defining an integrated IT management framework focusing on the lifecycle of services. This allows IT to achieve the same level of business predictability and efficiency that supply chain management has allowed for the business.
In fiction, servants cough discreetly to make people aware of their presence. (I’m thinking of P.G. Wodehouse, but there must be other examples.)Technological devices sometimes call our attention to themselves for various reasons. John Ehrenfeld calls …