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I’ve been writing a lot recently about metamodels for enterprise-architecture and the like: but what’s the point? Why bother? Why all this fuss about something that’s way too technical to be of interest to almost anyone in the real workaday world? The real point behind all of this discussion (and there’ve been some really valuable comments […]
Readers here at Elemental Links know that I’m an idea collector. I’m constantly on the look out for interesting articles in business, news and trade journals that either relate to my current work, or more likely, provide fodder for future work.
Lately, I’ve been highlighting these discoveries over on Active Information. This week, I discuss an intriguing piece in the Economist’s Technology Quarterly on Game Theory in Practice. Check out the Active Information post.
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A trivial but annoying intermittent admin-problem on WordPress that’s affecting this weblog. Since the last WordPress auto-update here, comments-administration has gone a bit erratic. It now sends me emails to two addresses, even though I can only change one of them – which kind of suggests there’s part of an old configuration still sitting out […]
Every organization has one. For some, it can lead directly to a path of enlightenment. Others may use its rigid structure to create an impenetrable fortress of strength. For the unfortunate, it becomes an inescapable labyrinth of hopelessness. Yes, it’s the org chart. Okay, let’s be fair, it’s actually not the chart that’s the real […]
I recently developed and presented this table to a group of EAs and IT execs. It has generated a fair bit of useful discussion so far, so I thought I’d share it more widely . Builds and observations most welcome.
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Often, when working with customers on various Enterprise Architecture projects, it is important to differentiate the various levels of architecture so everyone is on the same page about what we are working on. This also gets at the heart of some …
The Volkswagen Group has lofty goals of doubling sales worldwide by 2018. To help its global parent succeed, Volkswagen Group of America had to adopt standard yet flexible IT platforms, processes and architectures so it can build new capabilities just …
The Volkswagen Group has lofty goals of doubling sales worldwide by 2018. To help its global parent succeed, Volkswagen Group of America had to adopt standard yet flexible IT platforms, processes and architectures so it can build new capabilities just …
In the various previous posts about EA metamodels, we’ve been exploring some of the detailed structures for toolsets and the like at a very, very low-level. But what’s the big-picture here? What’s the point? So let’s step back for a moment, and look at real-world EA practice. Much of our work consists of conversations with […]
SOA is certainly not the only architectural approach that your enterprise will require. But it can smooth the alignment and adoption of other into an EA framework. So rather than reinvent the wheel, organizations should consider using a well-establishe…
And another delayed week’s-worth of Tweets and links. Usual and usual, preceded by usual. Enterprise-architecture and all the fun strategy-type stuff on business: chrisdpotts: RT @roygrubb: iPod. iPhone. iPad. Why Apple is Done Inventing New Devices. http://zite.to/o9pXGu #bmgen #bizarch SAlhir: RT @complexified RT @demingSoS “There is no point in asking #consumers – who do not […]
What would this ‘generic modelling metamodel’ look like? And how could we implement it? This continues the work from previous posts on this theme, such as ‘More detail on EA metamodel‘ and ‘EA metamodel and method‘. The legal bit: The aim is that this should contribute towards an open standard, and should not be used […]