Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
[Moved from brendamichelson.com. Original publish date: May 29, 2018] Back in January, I was asked to participate in PEW Research’s survey on the impact of digital life: “Over the next decade, how will changes in digital life impact people’s overall well-being physically and mentally?” The choices: more helped than harmed, more harmed than helped, not […]
Humans have evolved to make fast decisions. For example, when a stranger approaches you, you know almost instantaneously if they represent a threat, if they are angry, friendly or happy. The cognitive processing involved is mind-boggling if we actually…
There’s an old mantra which no-one really believes any more: Too big to fail. Tell that to the dinosaurs. In the last 20 years business has undergone a critical pivot. We’ve moved from the age of scale, where the winners were vertically integrated mono…
Humans have evolved to make fast decisions. For example, when a stranger approaches you, you know almost instantaneously if they represent a threat, if they are angry, friendly or happy. The cognitive processing involved is mind-boggling if we actually…
Decisions made within the Enterprise are best made when adequately informed. The ability to access knowledge in a timely manner, to categorise, analyse and prioritise its importance is essential. Capturing knowledge both explicit and tacit can be an endeavour in … Continue reading →
From Thursday to Saturday, more than 70.000 visitors will attend the third edition of VIVA TECH in Paris, one of the largest digital and tech conferences in Europe. The aim is to celebrate innovation and to help start-ups and businesses to grow. The li…
The application of a framework. when constructing an Enterprise Architecture, provides a context within which architectural artifacts can be defined. This assists in the establishment of relationships between components and ensuring some degree of consistency. Frameworks (plural) have been in … Continue reading →
Here are a few thoughts from the SAP Leonardo Center launch in Singapore in early May. The good news: since we last reported on Leonardo, SAP is clearer about what Leonardo actually is, and has more mature messaging and interesting customer examples to…
Much discussion and even controversy exists as to what is in fact the Enterprise. Those that think that it only encompasses the organisation or business in question are missing key facets that may impact how they perform in an on-going … Continue reading →
This is another of the sort-of status-reports about the ‘hammer it out in practice’ work that designer Joseph Chittenden and I have been doing on Five Elements, to make it more accessible and usable for a more general audience. In…
A dataset with all sessions of the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference is nice to have – for experiments and demonstrations with many technologies. The session catalog is exposed at a website here.
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Digital transformation is an omnipresent topic today, providing a lot of challenges as well as chances. Due to that, customers are asking about how to deal with those challenges and how to leverage from the provided chances. Frequently asked …