Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
For those folks who don’t normally track the events of the Gamer community, I’d like to share a lesson that every consumer facing business should heed. Social Media has changed the consumer landscape in an irrevocable way. This incident…
Recently, @davegray @tetradian @nickmalik and I (@mikerollings) had a brief twitter exchange about the role of luck in strategy. What is luck anyway? Isn’t it just a happy accident, an unexpected happening, a simple explanation for the unexpected, a serendipitous association that leaves us in awe of the randomness of life? In that context, strategy […]
The mistake of the many Raising a host of all employees and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the Enterprise. The daily expenditure will easily surmount that which can ever be gained. There will be commotion in the organization and the network, and men […]
The six ways There are six ways of investigating by process. The first is to go by strategic intent; the second is to follow the business models; the third is to go by information need; the fourth is to trace through application usage; the fifth is to trace through the organizations; the sixth is to […]
The art of architecture recognizes nine varieties of situations: When an architect is fighting within his own profession, it is a dispersive situation. When an architect has investigated a problem, but to no great depth, it is a facile situation. When an architect find no alignment on the nature of things, it is a contentious situation. […]
#entarch @lapalj has written an interesting article on the Three Schools of Enterprise Architecture.
The schools are distinguished along two dimensions: scope and ends (purpose).
Scopes Ends
Enterprise wide IT platform (EIT). All compone…
It’s been 9 months since our last post. That doesn’t mean that we’re no longer here, or that we’re not thinking about these topics, or that we don’t have anything more to say – those of you who know me realize that option is just about impossible…
It’s been 9 months since our last post. That doesn’t mean that we’re no longer here, or that we’re not thinking about these topics, or that we don’t have anything more to say – those of you who know me realize that option is just about impossible…
It’s been 9 months since our last post. That doesn’t mean that we’re no longer here, or that we’re not thinking about these topics, or that we don’t have anything more to say – those of you who know me realize that option is just about impossible…
It’s been 9 months since our last post. That doesn’t mean that we’re no longer here, or that we’re not thinking about these topics, or that we don’t have anything more to say – those of you who know me realize that option is just about impossible…
By The Open Group Continuing on the theme of predictions, here are a few more, which focus on enterprise architecture, business architecture, general IT and Open Group events in 2012. Enterprise Architecture – The Industry By Leonard Fehskens, VP of …
A kind of announcement, really: a knowledge-base wiki for whole-enterprise architecture is now available and ready for content and use. I’ve given it a temporary home on my Sidewise server: http://ea.sidewise.biz No doubt it should have a proper domain of its own, but that’ll do for now to get us started. [By the way, this […]