Could Anyone Else Use an Extra $600,000?

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I am supplementing my Q&A series on the Value of EA & BPA with a wonderful article published on January 30th about one our customers, Chubb Insurance, written by Madeline Weiss, Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council. There is nothing like a great story to  illustrate some of the ways enterprise architecture initiatives are […]

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San Francisco Conference Observations: Enterprise Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, SOA and a Splash of Cloud Computing

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By Chris Harding, The Open Group  This week I have been at The Open Group conference in San Francisco. The theme was Enterprise Transformation which, in simple terms means changing how your business works to take advantage of the latest … Contin…

Enterprise Architecture Lecture Series

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Imagine you wanted to run a lecture series or course on Enterprise Architecture. Let’s say you ended up with 6 themes, such as:

The Alignment Trap
The EA Profession and the Discipline
The Value of Enterprise Architecture
Architecting Work Practice
Living Enterprise and Metropolis
Publishing and […]

The Enterprise Architecture entry in Wikipedia (i)

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 Here is a hearty LinkedIn debate about the Enterprise Architecture entry in Wikipedia. I’ll comment only the outcome, the Wikipedia entry itself.  It is informative indeed, but how useful is it in practice to you? Ultimately, I found it…

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Link Collection — February 5, 2012

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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Under the pavement

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@pbmobi asserts that “Infrastructure Architecture is the foundation for #entarch, not the other way round”. This suggestion draws on a book review of “The Works: Anatomy of a City”, in which the reviewer suggests that the tubes, wires and pipes und…

Under the pavement

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@pbmobi asserts that “Infrastructure Architecture is the foundation for #entarch, not the other way round”. This suggestion draws on a book review of “The Works: Anatomy of a City”, in which the reviewer suggests that the tubes, wires and pipes und…

Data-architecture 101 and the naming-problem

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The echoes of the ‘naming-problem‘ around business-architecture and the like continue to rumble on, this time via another happy Twitter-exchange with Ron Tolido: rtolido: @tetradian just show me the non-IT people that invented #entarch and / or #bizarch tetradian: @rtolido we’re in a circular-definition here: what you call #entarch or #bizarch is whatever was ‘invented’ […]

Competence, non-competence and incompetence

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One of the key reasons why I’m so vehemently against any-centrism and suchlike revolves around the question of competence – or, more usually, the lack of it. Competence is where someone knows what they’re doing, and does it. And, oddly, often don’t bother to say that they’re competent – perhaps because they don’t need to […]