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After all, it is still the case today that the “company is the people” as EA describes, rather than “the company is the IT” as in EITA. But EITA delivers now, while the EA still promises.
In this fifth video – Building a Global Identity Ecosystem – we highlight what we need to change and develop to build a viable identity ecosystem. The Internet is global, so any identity ecosystem similarly must be capable of being adopted and implemen…
Yes, I admit it, I made that classic mistake again: I allowed myself to get engaged in an EA discussion on LinkedIn… This one started from the – to my mind – absurd and then insulting notion that EA is…
We do a lot of strategy work with organizations big and small. It is very curious to me that few organizations create strong vision statements. A powerful vision statement clarifies management’s aspirations. It sets broad direction and inspires people to go beyond the norm. If you create a set of reasonable goals people will meet […]
On Thursday, August 16 at 8:00 a.m. PT/ 4:00 p.m. BST/5:00 p.m. CET, identity management experts will host a webinar to discuss the key concepts in identity management today. Continue reading →
“How do I get a job as an enterprise-architect? Where do I go for that kind of job?” This is an obvious necessary follow-up to the post ‘On learning enterprise-architecture‘, and it’s a kind of question I get asked all…
On one particular programme the question arose whether to create the “Enterprise Architecture” or the “Requirements” first has been a matter of great debate. On the one hand, the organisation in question did not have an Architecture and yet the organis…
On one particular programme the question arose whether to create the “Enterprise Architecture” or the “Requirements” first has been a matter of great debate. On the one hand, the organisation in question did not have an Architecture and yet the organis…
How do we make sense of a context? How can we make sense in a disciplined way, without the discipline itself getting in the way? This is a follow-up to the previous post ‘Sensemaking and the swamp-metaphor‘, to provide a bit…
It is often assumed the enterprise architecture function includes planning and strategy. While this may be the case in practice, given the specifics of a job description, in theory, at least, they are separate disciplines. The delinea…
Beliefs are powerful. Sometimes, to achieve something, all we need is to hold on to our beliefs. Then there are times when we can’t get where we want to be, unless our beliefs are seriously shaken and eventually changed. Beliefs can influence our capabilities. And the evidence of our capabilities can change our beliefs. Let’s […]
#entarch #bizarch #viewpoints In a previous post, I looked at the five viewpoints of business architecture according to the OMG. In this post, I shall look at the architectural modelling viewpoints indicated in TOGAF 9.1. (Section 8.2). In TOGAF, these…