Autumn Events 2013

Unicom EA Forum – Enterprise Architecture and its ApplicationUnicom has kindly invited me to chair this event again, and I look forward to meeting some of you there. It will be held at the Kensington Hilton in West London on Thursday 19th September. Th…

Autumn Events 2013

Unicom EA Forum – Enterprise Architecture and its ApplicationUnicom has kindly invited me to chair this event again, and I look forward to meeting some of you there. It will be held at the Kensington Hilton in West London on Thursday 19th September. Th…

New Book: Beyond Alignment

I am pleased to announce that our new book Beyond Alignment: Applying Systems Thinking in Architecting Enterprises has been published and is available for order online. The book is available for purchase at Amazon. Beyond Alignment is a comprehensive reader about how enterprises can apply systems thinking in their enterprise architecture practice, for business transformation and …read more

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Variety – part 2

Can you deal with it? It is amazing how language evolved to adapt to reductionist mindset.  “Deal”, which originated from divide and initially meant only to distribute and then to trade, is now used as synonym for cope, manage and control. We manage things by dividing them. We eat elephants peace by peace, we start […]

Beyond Alignment Book

I am pleased to announce that our new book, Beyond Alignment: Applying Systems Thinking in Architecting Enterprises (ISBN 9781848901162) is now available via Amazon.com, and should be available internationally any day now. The book is a comprehensive reader about how enterprises can apply systems thinking in their enterprise architecture practice, for business transformation and for strategic execution. The book’s contributors find […]

Infrastructure architecture: helping other architects

The infrastructure architect versus the other architectsAs I was asked to speak at the Enterprise Architecture forum in London, I got to think about what I could tell the other people attending the forum about the work of us infrastructure architects….

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Webinar: Why Good Strategies Go Bad and what you can do about it

I will be presenting a webinar on Tuesday, September 24th and again on Thursday September 26th on the topic of developing actionable strategies. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. You can register here: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 – 1:00PM EDT or  Thursday, September 26th, 2013 – 11:00AM EDT […]