Gartner’s 2013 Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant

Like every year, Gartner has released yet another great resource for Enterprise Architects with their EA Tools Magic Quadrant. This is a very useful tool especially if you are in the market for an Enterepise Architecture tool. Gartner dog a…

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Mapping vs. Modeling

What are the differences between them and when to use each technique? If we think about maps the most familiar to us is possibly the road map. Then if we put multiple maps together we can create a road atlas. These are great for allowing us to see where we are and where we might […]

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You want my what?

The scene opens with our Mild-Mannered Enterprise Architect (MMEA) using an online store to rent some photography equipment. It seems our MMEA fancies himself as an unpaid professional photographer and has been pressed into a photo shoot for a good…

You want my what?

The scene opens with our Mild-Mannered Enterprise Architect (MMEA) using an online store to rent some photography equipment. It seems our MMEA fancies himself as an unpaid professional photographer and has been pressed into a photo shoot for a good…

Inspiration As A Strategy

As you may have heard, Forbes magazine published their America’s Top 25 Most Inspiring Companies last week, and Microsoft was awarded the #1 spot. Pretty cool.
Also interesting was this statement “This survey highlights the fact that when a company emb…

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Inspiration As A Strategy

As you may have heard, Forbes magazine published their America’s Top 25 Most Inspiring Companies last week, and Microsoft was awarded the #1 spot. Pretty cool. Also interesting was this statement “This survey highlights the fact that when a company embarks on an inspiring mission, it’s employees become inspired by their work and that makes…

Gordian knot, butterfly effect:Organizations are a study in complexity

Business is complex.  Gone are the years of simplicity in business operations.  Exponential growth and change in regulations, globalization, distributed operations, changing processes, competitive velocity, business relationships, disruptive technology, legacy technology, and business data encumbers organizations of all sizes. Business … Continue reading

The Open Group TweetJam on Digital-Disruption – by Tom Graves

On 2 October 2013, the Open Group ran one of its occasional ‘TweetJam’ Twitter-discussions – also known as an #ogChat. This time it was on digital disruption – disruption to existing business-models, typically (but, as we will see, not only) by … Continue reading

Engineer strategic planning to align your company. Don’t reverse-engineer another company’s strategic plan.

My engineering background encourages me automate processes. My architect experience encourages me to find patterns and model relationships. My operations experience forces to me to continuously look for ways to institutionalize efficiencies. My business management experience reminds me that it’s all about organizing people and initiatives to achieve strategy through building environments for people to…