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By Manuel Ponchaux, Senior Consultant, Corso The Corso team recently visited London for The Open Group’s “Business Transformation in Finance, Government & Healthcare” conference (#ogLON). The event was predominantly for learning how experts address organisational change when aligning business needs … Continue reading →
I was reading early this morning and ran across this quote from Henry Ford: “I am looking for a lot of men [and women] who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” It struck me that this nicely captures many of the conversations that we have around Phase One and the thought pattern that I would like to see happening more often around town. There is […]
Why do I worry about enterprise-architecture? And who the heck am I to worry about it? What kind of right have I got to criticise anything that anyone does in this space? Okay, let’s forget the idea of ‘rights’ for…
I think most can agree that enterprise architects have been getting more and more narrow in terms of the scope of planning that they touch. In reality, executives and decision makers need a single complete plan of action. They ask, “what do I need to do, how do I secure it, how much will it cost, and when can it be done?” As enterprise architects have drifted away from solution […]
What’s wrong with enterprise-architecture? For that matter, what’s right with it? How can we do more of what’s right and less of what’s wrong? And what is the point of EA, anyway? Following on from those posts on certification and EA,…
What is it?The stakeholders analysis focuses on putting stakeholders on the map in a conscious way. Stakeholders are people or organizations that are (positively or negatively) influenced by or able to influence the project. By explicitly running a st…
Now a days companies are developing Process Architectur […]
Exciting news (for me anyway)! Last Friday, November 1 2013, the New Zealand Government Chief Information Officer (Colin MacDonald, Chief Executive of the Department of Internal Affairs) announced that the New Zealand government had negotiated contracts for the supply of Desktop as a Service (DaaS). The service provides both virtual desktops (hosted and managed by […]
Focused Efforts Producing Significant ResultsEnterprise leverage occurs when a focused effort produces significant results for the enterprise and its strategy. How do Enterprise Architects help the CIO produce enterprise leverage? Enterprise Architecture (EA) has to go beyond simply improving operational efficiency, reducing costs and providing technical excellence. Here are my suggestions for how the EA role could…
In the previous recordings of this series we have presented our view on enterprise architecture (EA), TOGAF and ArchiMate. We see EA as a conceptual tool that adds business value with a model-based approach for getting to grips with the complexities o…
Cultural context is the contextual element we hear about most. It represents what the majority of employees believe about the organization and what it takes to be successful there. One way to think about it is as the organization’s reaction to the structural context. Culture can be tightly aligned with and support the structural context […]
People often think that Innovation and Transformation a […]