Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Most architects that I have met have a great belief in numbers as they claim that there is something stable on numbers and on logic. The really funny thing however is that most people that heavily rely on numbers are also subject to the base rate fallacy. The classical example of this is DNA testing … Continue reading Base rate fallacy →
I started my blog “Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education” in May 2007 to share the EA work my colleagues and I have done. My goal was to share the practical approaches that we implemented to move our organizations forward. I hope that you have seen value and found ways to use some of our ideas to move your […]
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Autonomy empowers the enterprise departments to organise and govern themselves. Hence, an enterprise organised in autonomous units would promote motivation, stimulate initiative, manage resources and take ownership of deliverables more responsibly.
Regardless of news stories and articles, companies and governments continue to suffer from major information breaches. I teach a course on Information Security Risk Management and Legal Issues to Masters students at the New York Institute of Technology…
The team is excited about the news that they can go ahead with fleshing out the target architecture. They are particularly enthusiastic about going for a combination of best-of-breed systems mixed with an MDM solution. There is still some caution as Brenda has made it very clear that there was some ‘glazing over’ during the presentation. As before, the team decides to work in two sub teams: one team will do a “road show” to illustrate the concept of MDM to increase management buy-in, while the other team fleshes out the technical details.
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Typically, enterprises are structured around a combination of functions, products, geography… And the usual enterprise representation is the organisation chart that says so little about the enterprise, not even the products.&n…
Have you wondered why CIOs do not become CEOs? What prevents them from achieving at the highest organisational levels? It’s because they don’t have their hands on revenue, unlike CMOs, CFOs, brand marketers, and sales directors. So all that remain in the realm of ICT are seen as purely administrative and like all administrative functions … Continue reading Key transformational steps of architecture away from ICT →
Cloud is becoming the new norm for enterprises. More and more companies across the globe are using a combination of two or more private, hosted, or public cloud services – applying different technology stacks to different business scenarios. Hybrid clo…
Cloud is becoming the new norm for enterprises. More and more companies across the globe are using a combination of two or more private, hosted, or public cloud services – applying different technology stacks to different business scenarios. Hybrid clo…
I tried to explain earlier how distinction brings forth meaning, and then value. Starting from distinction may seem arbitrary. Well, it is. And while it is, it is not. That wouldn’t be very difficult to show, but until then, let’s first t…
Ah definitions, definitions – so many to choose from! But somehow, only a limited number of labels to go around, to share out amongst all those definitions? Which means that people end up using the same labels for different things,…
By Phil Beauvoir Some of you might have noticed that Archi 3.3 has been released. This latest version of Archi includes a new plug-in which supports The Open Group ArchiMate Model Exchange File Format standard. This represents the fruits of … Continue reading →