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I don’t remember her name, now. She was less than twenty-five years old, but even then she already looked more than forty. Way back when I was still a callow, confused graphic-design student – which, arguably, I perhaps still am…
Pray let me introduce you to a bleak, blunt fact of the futurist’s working-life: …where futurists work ain’t where the money is. In this so-called ‘economy’, where money drives everything and short-termism rules the roost, there’s almost no way to…
Wandering through this perhaps-too-ancient town’s centre this weekend, I drift into the grubby not-quite mall that crowds around the now all-but-abandoned old Saxon church. And notice, there in the town’s one remaining video-store, that the relatively-recent Disney not-exactly-blockbuster Oz The Great…
Requirements occupy the central place in the ADM cycle, the architecture development process. Each and every ADM phase seems to take them into consideration. For what reason though?To begin with, is the ADM about architecture development or the e…
By Stuart Boardman, KPN What does the apocalyptic vision of Blade Runner have to do with The Open Group’s Open Platform 3.0™ Forum? Throughout history, from the ancient Greeks and the Talmud, through The Future Eve and Metropolis to I … Continue reading →
This article highlights the impact of disruptive forces on enterprise architecture. It goes further to elaborate the impact in terms of scope of enterprise architecture and skill-sets of enterprise architects.
The Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO), a “worldwide association of professional organizations which have come together to provide a forum to standardize, professionalize, and otherwise advance the discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA)”, has announced and published their EA Perspectives White Paper, ”Common Perspective on Enterprise Architecture”. The Great Debate — what is enterprise architecture […]
As you may have read on my blog or even when you hear me present, I talk about how crucial soft-skills are to Enterprise Architects. In my personal opinion I think the majority of our success hinges on our ability…
While TOGAF is not inhibiting a different EA thinking, in fact it inadvertently stimulates that, TOGAF is still hindering the take off and the development of other approaches.TOGAF not only ignores but competes with the other EA approaches rather than …
What is it?The Brainstorm technique is focused on generating as many ideas as possible in a group of people. At this time quantity and diversity are more important then the quality of ideas. Participants achieve this by first coming up with ideas indi…
By Dave Lounsbury, Chief Technical Officer, The Open Group The role of IT within the business is one that constantly evolves and changes. If you’ve been in the technology industry long enough, you’ve likely had the privilege of seeing IT … Continue reading →
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