Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I recently installed a new FreeBSD 10 server at home (on my trustly old IBM Thinkpad). After seeing that openjdk8 was out, I thought I would install it from ports and give it a spin.
During installation I received the following kernel warning in my SS…
I have written previously on this blog about leveraging Enterprise Architecture as a methodology for the Operating Model creation and management. In this blog post I will briefly outline mechanism and benefits of using industry leading Zachma…
I have written previously on this blog about leveraging Enterprise Architecture as a methodology for the Operating Model creation and management. In this blog post I will briefly outline mechanism and benefits of using industry leading Zachma…
Technical debt, in the enterprise architecture context, measures the departure of the current enterprise organization from the good practices of enterprise architecture.
The more exceptions to the good rules of practice, the …
I have been addicted to IRC ever since my first days as a mIRC scripter back in 1996-1997 and the true wonders of DALnet and DCC chat. After I jumped the Slackware Linux wagon in 1998 I was first introduced to X-Chat as the “one true IRC client”. Howev…
Shadow IT keeps many CIOs awake at night. For years, they’ve been worried about how to rein in renegades. But some CIOs are starting to think differently. They look at what we’ve called shadow IT as just one of many IT resources they orchestrate to address business demands. Adopting a new attitude toward shadow IT […]
WHITE PAPER What is a Customer? “In our division any internal unit we cross charge services to is called a Customer” “Marketing call Customers Clients” “Sales refer to Prospects and Suspects, but to me they […]
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Easter. In the Christian calendar at least – and in the pagan one that preceded it – it’s supposed to be a time of rebirth. Yet rebirth of what? And into what, or whom? If it’s a more personal form…
I failed to write the book (actually two) which I planned to do as mentioned in an old blog post. It almost killed my blogging, because I put my writing energy into the book, but never really managed to get something to paper (or leanpub to be more pre…
I failed to write the book (actually two) which I planned to do as mentioned in an old blog post. It almost killed my blogging, because I put my writing energy into the book, but never really managed to get something to paper (or leanpub to be more pre…
Quick, brief and practical – three phrases that every enterprise-architecture should know by heart, and act on, too: “I don’t know… (but I know how to find out, or find someone who does)” “It depends… (and I know how to…
This is a long comment for the HBR blog on “Why your analytics are failing you” that states that “the real challenge is recognizing that using big data and analytics to better solve problems and/or make decisions obscures the organizational realit…