Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Rethinking the enterprise from a customer-centric perspective was another theme that came up in that conversation with Robert Phipps last week, in this case with a bit of virtual help from Chris Potts.
The ‘conventional’ way of viewing an enterprise is that of the stock-market – and, apparently, US commercial law – which seems to regard the […]
I note Tom Graves, Robert Phipps and Richard Veryard discussing vectors as a metaphor for enterprise change. They argue As-Is and To-Be models are way too static. The organization is not a series of snapshots, rather it is a complex, multi-dimensional,…
I note Tom Graves, Robert Phipps and Richard Veryard discussing vectors as a metaphor for enterprise change. They argue As-Is and To-Be models are way too static. The organization is not a series of snapshots, rather it is a complex, multi-dimensional,…
How often do the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) have common cause to work together? More often than you might think. The IT department and the technology resources and skills they contain are among those most in demand by corporate compliance officers when taking on the often enterprise-wide projects that help keep their organization’s out of legal or regulatory hot water, so says a recent survey on corporate compliance practices co-sponsored […]
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@tetradian and @robert_phipps have recently floated the idea of Enterprise Architecture as Vectors.
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