Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
In another moment of (over) thinking enterprise architecture, I was comparing the surgical suite to a project team. I’ll define a team as a committee, or other ad-hoc group of individuals engaged in a particular task. While the surgical team has ma…
The next public dates for my workshops with Unicom are as follows.
Business Awareness for IT Specialists (January 28th)
Business Architecture Series (January 29th-31st)
Organizational Intelligence in the Public Sector (February 1st)
Please tell them you saw it on my blog when you book. These workshops are also available inhouse.
Continuing on the theme of predictions, here are a few more, which focus on global IT trends, business architecture, OTTF and Open Group events in 2013. Continue reading →
What is entropy? What – if anything – is its relevance to business? And how does chaos come into the picture? The physics definition of entropy is straightforward enough: it’s a corollary of the second law of thermodynamics, the way in which energy flows…
I haven’t seen this video in awhile but I was refreshed with it in the Elevating Enterprise Architecture course and thought I would share with all of you. The predictions from Gartner were in my opinion, absolutely spot on. I…
Organizations today expect much more innovation from their employees than they did yesterday and will expect even more tomorrow. And not just technology innovation, but innovative products, services, processes, strategies, leadership styles, organizational designs, and more. This means that innovation isn’t just another function we can bolt on to our current role. It is a […]
Life as an architect is not always so easy, we are sometimes overwhelmed with things to do and the more things amass the worse it gets. My usual remedy for situations like that is that you just STOP what you are doing and go for a walk. As you walk let your mind drift and […]
What do enterprise-architects actually do? What unique contribution do they bring to the enterprise? What triggered this was one paragraph in Len Fehskens’ item on current and future enterprise-architecture, in the Open Group blog ‘2013 Open Group Predictions, Vol.1‘. Here’s the…
Beyond ICT: Embracing the Next Digital Revolution (via PR Newswire) SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The history of human social development is, to some extent, the history of human scientific and technological progress. Humanity achieves scientific and technological progress by pushing its physical and mental limits and breaking away from the restrictions…
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Below are the predictions and comments on what architecture all-up holds for all of us in 2013. It’s a good read from some very insightful architects at the Open Group. I haven’t added any commentary here, I may put together…
I had the pleasure over the holiday break to take the Elevating Enterprise Architecture course from Architecting the Enterprise. This was a truly refreshing course. I found many of the same themes I have talking about lately are reflected in…
As we wrap up 2012, we couldn’t help but look towards what is to come in 2013 for The Open Group and the industries we‘re a part of. Without further ado, here they are… Continue reading →