Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Whether it’s new technology, new regulations, or new customer demands, companies often view complexity as something that is done to them. Accordingly, many executives think of complexity as an intrusion that requires a reaction. However, companies mastering complexity to their advantage are much more proactive. They make complexity a strategic decision with the goal of […]
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The position of Enterprise Architecture
Change has become a fact of life for most organizations. Even more, the speed of change is also increasing at a near exponential pace. We’ve learned to accept that the days of slowly moving from one stabl…
What is a service-oriented architecture – particularly at a whole-of-enterprise scope? Why would we describe an enterprise and its architecture in that way? How would we describe it? What could we use to describe it? This is the first in…
Designing the experience for customers is increasing important in a noisy, saturated world. There seems to be no end of choices for food, technology, or services that are presented to us each day. What are the key differentiators that drive us to one versus the other? Typically its cost. Many years ago on a much […]
What are services? What’s the difference between product and service? How does a service-oriented architecture really work – especially when we scale it up to include everything in the entire enterprise? And how does the Enterprise Canvas model-type help in…
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“Enterprise architecture is to information as building architecture is to space.” Roger Evernden
The other day I spotted an interesting article (cite: BMJ 2014,349;g5538) in the print-edition of the British Medical Journal, about the dangers of premature decision-making based on what they described as ‘policy-based evidence’. The article’s examples were in healthcare, of…
The downfall of Housing Technology
There has been many experiences during the three years since I first published the text. I feel it’s time to revisit my inspirations, thoughts and writings. I’m expecting this journey to take some time, maybe a lifetime or more. I’ll use this site to work on the material, this means that this blog and the material […]
In “Pink Architecture: New Technology Leadership” the author, Linda Cureton, CEO of Muse Technologies specializing in IT transformation, promotes the “pink” leadership in enterprise architecture, a style characteristic to women.
While…