Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Surveying current architecture roles in Australia reveals an explosion of numerous, confusing and frequently ambiguous job titles. Over a 30 day period a staggering 71 different job titles emerged with some probably being missed. Many of the roles advertised were … Continue reading →
IT and its end users are at odds. This is most clearly illustrated by the growing trend of “Shadow IT”. Groups within Businesses routinely sidestep their own internal IT in favor of third party providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google, and Rac…
One of my life-long idols, Muhammad Ali is quoted as saying, “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Can you point to a specific situation where you have changed your mind? On the topic of a…
One of my life-long idols, Muhammad Ali is quoted as saying, “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Can you point to a specific situation where you have changed your mind? On the topic of a…
What is the connection between enterprise architecture and something technical as data centers? In one of his blogs Tom Graves, a well known enterprise architect, is discussing the needs of enterprise architect clients. According to Tom: “What paying-folks in business … Continue reading →
Back by popular demand! If you missed this webinar last year join me as I share what Accelare has learned about the challenges almost every organization faces as they work toward implementing their strategies. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. Please forward to others you think might be interested. You […]
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How do we ‘sell’ enterprise-architecture? How do we explain what it is that we do – and why we do it? This series started as a bit of ‘thinking aloud’ about work, and how we apply our work, and how…
Methodology is a set of methods and procedures describing how to reach a result. Every enterprise developing products or services makes use of various development methodologies [1] but they are sometimes diverted from their original intent, for example for project management [2] purposes. As for projects, the application of methodology produces “deliverables” [3], for example […]
The three “options”, “diversify”, “develop new services” and “expand globally” are rather standard generic, academic, business school choices, valid for and considered by most enterprises.They look like strategy categories rather than strategies themse…
Business Maturity and dealing with the unexpected Watching Tom Graves’ excellent video presentation entitled ‘Same and different: architectures for mass uniqueness’ made me think seriously about how businesses, when assessing their maturity, include amongst their capabilities, the ability to handle … Continue reading →
I had a discussion once with a Director of Finance:
‘I think we already have an architecture of the enterprise’ he said, ‘as we have today clear processes in Finance; otherwise, how could the enterprise work today? Why do we need then to spend on…