What Does Cloud Mean For Your Corporate Network?

If you are looking at a significant use of cloud computing, have you considered what this might mean for your network? Corporate networks are an often overlooked factor when thinking about cloud computing. The problem is that cloud computing increases the criticality of your network, because if your network isn’t available then your cloud services […]

Defining Business Architecture

Business Architecture is a burning hot topic these days. I believe it is a key enabler to get us to a more contemporary or new world of Enterprise Architecture (EA). Continuing the shift from an IT centric Enterprise Architecture to…

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Why Good Strategy Goes Bad

Almost every day I talk with smart, capable executives who struggle to bring their strategies to fruition. They want to run a great organization but settle for good… and often less. These executives fully understand their organization’s challenges and have great ideas to address them. Yet they struggle to get the organization focused on the […]

What is TOGAF and why should organizations use it?

This short video explains what The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is and how Enterprise Architects can benefit from this open standard in their architecture work.TOGAF stands for The Open Group Architecture Framework. It is an open standard…

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EA Worst Practice Alert – This shiny EA tool is the solution for all my problems!

Enterprise Architecture’s fundamental purpose is to enable business outcomes by materializing business strategies into real solutions. As we have discussed in previous posts, there are some important aspects to maturing your Enterprise Architectur…

Why do we need architecture?

A question still often asked today, is why do we need enterprise architecture. It is intriguing though that, more often than not. the architects are asking the question.But first, let me ask and answer a few related questions: Why d…

New Challenge for IT Outsourcing

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