Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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 […]
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…
From CIO To Chief Digital Officer – Chuck’s Blog
“In the new digital information economy, who leads the transformation from the previous business model to the new one?”
PiCloud | Cloud Computing. Simplified.
Looks interesting:
“Re-inventing the Cloud: Leverage the power of the cloud with only 3 lines of [Python] code. Leave the load balancing, auto scaling, and server management to us.”
tags: picloud CloudComputing python
IBM’s Watson is changing careers – Big Tech – Fortune Tech
Watson must’ve blown through his winnings. He’s getting a job:
“IBM plans to sell Watson as a cloud-based service companies can tap to find answers in disparate data sets. For example, a financial services firm could use it to sift through news reports and market research to find likely acquisition targets. Or a healthcare company could utilize Watson to process medical articles, prior cases and even a patient’s own medical history and identify the most likely diagnosis and best course of treatment.”
Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
“The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.” The group searched for plants, and then cultured the microorganisms within the plant tissue. As it turns out, they brought back a fungus new to science with a voracious appetite for a global waste problem: polyurethane.”
tags: plastic environment discovery
I am really excited about the new release of ArchiMate. The reason I am so excited is that for the first time ArchiMate complements TOGAF with a compelling, versatile and unambiguous visual modeling language that covers the end to end…
Along side the release of the ArchiMate 2.0 specification, a new certification for the ArchiMate has been released this week. ArchiMate, an Open Group Standard, is an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture that is supported by different…
@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…
@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…
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’ […]
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 […]
I often don’t like when EA discussions take the route into meta concepts. Enterprise architects – as the abstract thinkers they often are – have a tendency to discuss meta concepts. “What does the meta model of that method look like?”, “What do you mean when you say capability?”, “How do you define enterprise architecture?”. […]
This one continues the recent theme of IT-centrism and why it’s such a problem for enterprise-architecture, but extends it into a slightly different direction, courtesy of a Tweet yesterday by Ron Tolido: rtolido: interesting stuff coming soon around a global Business Architect certification standard by The Open Group #ogsfo Important to say here that I […]
My latest posts on Active Information. It’d be fair to say I’m more focused on raising ideas than hit counts.
Software Architect Lessons from Amazon’s DynamoDB
I took a bit of a tangent (shocking!) on the DynamoDB announcement, pulling lessons from Werner Vogels’ recounting of the DynamoDB genesis that every software architect should embrace.
More data, more collaboration, more power.
In another showing of me being me, I ferret out a counter intuitive idea on the human change of data-driven decision-making.
The official excerpt:
“When you think about the human resistance in adopting data-driven decision-making, or really any change, at the root is the me question. What is the impact on my job, my span of control, my future opportunities?”