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“Dead Letter Office” is a lovely and hearty shiraz sourced from the McLaren Vale and Padthaway wine regions of South Australia. While drinking a bottle of Dead Letter Office recently i started to sketch this post about asynchronous message-based integration architectures. The dead-letter-office concept is an important form of exception-handling, though it contributes to complexity […]
For some time I have been working with adapting the business model canvas for explaining how an enterprise architecture program delivers value to the it-department. The scope of the model has been on the foundation architecture where the outcome of the enterprise architecture program is mainly used by the IT department. I am aware of […]
Enterprise Architecture (EA) starts out being misunderstood, like an adolescent suffering an identity crisis. In the last article, we discussed what EA is, and how organizations can it as an effective tool to create a blueprint for a business aligned &…
The key issue with Archimate and most other frameworks is that the Z factor is uncontrolled. What this means is that you will have architects creating views that are unaligned and unintegratable on any wider scale. So on the surface it looks good but underneath the rot has set in and in short amount of […]
Organizational leaders face difficult decisions when it comes to balancing change against ROI expectations. Does change justify the cost in terms of time, money and resources? At the end of the day, executives are looking solutions that can help them create and sustain an agile business while minimizing waste. Over the years organizations have achieved […]
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As the systems thinking pioneer Gregory Bateson pointed out, there is an important difference between seeing with one eye and seeing with two. With monocular vision even the much prized Big Picture can be merely a flat and featureless panorama. Bino…
As the systems thinking pioneer Gregory Bateson pointed out, there is an important difference between seeing with one eye and seeing with two. With monocular vision even the much prized Big Picture can be merely a flat and featureless panorama. Bino…
When introducing Enterprise Architecture as a program or initiative, it is regularly done from an IT perspective rarely considering what the costs will be and if there will be any return on investment. This presents a particular challenge to Enterprise…
I have at last found a viable workflow to produce e-books of my various books and blogposts, via Leanpub. There’s one significant constraint in this form of publishing: Leanpub uses Markdown text-files for input, which is a fair bit more limited in its formatting than my books normally use. But that constraint fits well with the […]
Setting up an Enterprise Architecture (EA) function in an organisation requires a structured approach which delivers results. In this series we give practical tips and guidelines in implementing EA in different types of organisations. In the previous p…
Also launched at the Integrated EA 2012 conference was my new book ‘The enterprise as story‘: Full title: The Enterprise As Story: the role of narrative in enterprise-architecture ISBN: 978-1-906681-34-0 Description: Most current approaches to enterprise-architecture describe everything in terms of structure. Yet people work better with story than with structure – and people are the enterprise. As […]