Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Since the 2008 economic recession, companies have looked to innovation to fuel growth. You see this in the wide range of digital investments for everything from mobile apps to business processes to financial products. This has led to a significant increase in spending on digitization, but it’s often not managed as a whole. In an […]
Current dialogue among the leadership and constituents of the Federal, Washington
DC, Maryland and Virginia (DMV) regional “Open Data” government
community have shed new light on the challenges and opportunities that
individual jurisdictions face (not just around DC), in establishing Open
Data capabilities and services – both public-facing, and as part of the
inward-facing “information sharing” context within their own agencies.
Open Data is also a very different conversation, when held at a purely
local level, vs. statewide or across an entire metropolitan region.
In “Understanding EA Frameworks” Stephen Lahanas explains the EA frameworks to us.Quite right Stephen observes that the frameworks have appeared because people noticed that the process of describing the IT of an enterprise looked similar in too many wa…
I borrowed this quote from Bert Kersten (Professor at Nyenrode Business School). And it is so true! I see it every day, people being busy with internal projects, organizational structures, performance indicators, IT issues. But where is the customer? …
There is an old game in town and it comes packed with a new label, 6:2. No! It’s not about food, allthough it is about energy. The new 6:2 brain diet is to secure that you spend 6 hours a day on your own work topics and 2 hours on other topics. Let’s say you […]
A strategy provides a way to describe how the business is going to get things done. It is much less specific than a plan, which describes who will do what and when. Instead, its purpose is to broadly answer the … Continue reading →
The art of architecture is largely developed through experience. I’ve found that if you can put in place the right, structured approach you can overcome the challenge of lack of experience and help grow a high performing team. Continue reading →
Unsettled, the haplessly-institutionalised incumbents huddled together for warmth, two to a cubicle, cruel flickering artificial light obliterating any capacity they once might have harbored for self-actualisation or for problem-solving, casting an especially-stark relief upon their miserable, wasteful, angsty souls. They were unsettled by the juggernaut paperweight reputation of the new shepherd coming to guide them, […]
A month ago, I saw the announcement from ISACA about their work revamping the COBIT 5 Core Principles. These 5 principles provide a good foundation for structuring an IT strategic plan. It is good to see that the principles start with stakeholder needs. This aligns well with our shift from focusing on technology to delivering services. […]
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Too often in the hype and excitement around Big Data, the conversation gets complicated very quickly. Data scientists and technical experts bandy around terms like Hadoop, Pig, Mahout, and Sqoop, making us wonder if we’re talking about […]
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Anyone who doubts that enterprise-architecture has an identity-problem, should take a look at this wonderfully poignant address-slip that did eventually reach enterprise-architect Julius Schaffer at the University of Adelaide: Nope, enterprise-architecture is not the same as civil-architecture; nor is it…
I come alive watching children play, learn, explore, share, grow into new possibilities. I die inside watching so many adults – including myself, at times – so often and so assiduously avoid doing any of those things… What is it…