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The ground is shifting under foot in a disrupted world and change is accelerating. You might find yourself asking questions such as: How do you make sense of what’s happening in your industry and organisation? […]
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In what ways does what we do within the enterprise require a different perspective on the enterprise itself? In what ways does our maturity-level – our skills, competence and experience – affect what we can and should do within the…
The top Internet companies have long used highly scalable technologies…
The top Internet companies have long used highly scalable technologies to manage massive amounts of data. Enterprise architects must help their organizations transition to these technologies so they can benefit
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The business academy ignored the BA issue because the term architecture was rather alien to the business community so far. It’s too technical perhaps. But more and more often, business consultancies mention EA in the grander sense that includes busines…
I came across the following post on LinkedIn Pulse: The 5 Resource Bottle Necks In Big Data, Including The Intangible 5th. I think this post is important for all the programmers, software designers and architects that are so infatuated with battling … Continue reading →
I posted earlier on “Where should IT sit in the reporting structure?” I did more research and found this very interesting paper: CIO Reporting Structure, Strategic Positioning, and Firm Performance: To Whom Should the CIO Report? The authors state that the reporting structure for a CIO depends on the strategic positioning of the firm. In […]
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Following from that recent series on sensemaking and ‘Seven sins of dubious discipline‘, it seems worthwhile to look at that whole context-space from a different direction, another example of a proven metaframework for much the same kind of metadiscipline – namely…
I am not sure on how well you are still up to stats these days so let me first remind you that the regression towards the mean is the phenomenon that if a variable is extreme on its first measurement, it will tend to be closer to the average on its second measurement and if it … Continue reading Regression toward the mean →
There are so many pressures on the EA team, but it is well worth taking time out to harvest reusable models, patterns, and templates from the work that we’ve already done! August is often a good month to do this, if the holiday season gives your team some respite from daily pressures. This article explains…
http://masteringarchimate.com has passed the 200,000 view mark during my vacation. I started this blog in 2011. In June 2014 it passed the 100,000 view mark. It took 14 months to get the next 100,000 views. That is a milestone I wanted … Continue reading →
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What we often miss today in our enterprise is that common integrated picture of the business, illustrating the functions, flows, information, governance and organisation that only a BA offers.
But, while many teach BA courses a…