Challenges of Emergent Architecture
Unique business situations still demand for small/nimble IT solutions that wouldn’t wait for long lead times, big business cases. What is the solution? Continue reading →
Context breaks Taylor’s hold on strategy
Last week’s post “Replacing Taylorism as our Management Doctrine” called for the end of Taylorism. Thankfully, I am not the first to call for the end of Taylorism or to write about human characteristics which businesses frequently ignore. There are many before me who have added significant insights into this debilitating management doctrine and all […]
‘Ba’, Cynefin, place and architecture
Just been reading (via Tweet by Bill Ives) a post by Anne Marie McEwan on ‘Loosening the Taylorist Stranglehold on the Workplace‘. Within a much larger context in a very good article, this one brief section caught my attention:
The Japanese concept of ‘ba’ came up in one of the face-to-face conversations. … Nonaka et al say that […]
Segment Architecture in a Commercial Setting
The notion of an Enterprise Architect in a Segment (aka “Segment Architect”) has been fairly well described in for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework. (FSAM reference). It is not always well understood, and there are …
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Enterprise Architect Friends: Your Insights Wanted – Survey on Event Processing
I’m working with StreamBase on an Event Processing survey directed at the enterprise architecture community. As a reader of elemental links, there is a high probability you are, work with, or lead enterprise architects. Can you do me a favor? Tak…
Must See Guide for Gartner BPM Summit
As one of the largest BPM conferences in the world, the Gartner BPM Summit offers objective advice and insights into some of the latest issues, disciplines and trends emerging in the BPM community. With the Gartner BPM Summit coming up next week in Baltimore, we thought we’d take this opportunity to pull together a quick […]
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Troux Ranked Top Current Offering in EA Management Suites
At Troux we work hard to provide not only the deepest EA functionality in the industry, but the methodologies and services to make our customers successful. We also have a passion and a vision for the role that EA can play in aligning IT with the busin…
Troux Ranked Top Current Offering in EA Management Suites
At Troux we work hard to provide not only the deepest EA functionality in the industry, but the methodologies and services to make our customers successful. We also have a passion and a vision for the role that EA can play in aligning IT with the busin…
Is Enterprise Architecture a Profession?
Is Enterprise Architecture a profession or discipline? Having some insight to this question – if not a complete answer – will help us further define the curriculum, mentoring and process to develop architects. Continue reading →
More on ‘Not-quite VPEC-T’
[Updated to incorporate changes suggested by Nigel Green in the first comment in the comments-section below.]
A great conversation last night with Nigel Green, originator of the VPEC-T frame to elicit requirements and other concerns in enterprise-architecture and business-change design.
As described in my post ‘Not quite VPEC-T‘ back in November, the ’service-flow content’ part of my […]
Launching The EA Game
I announced The EA Game in a recent Twitter status update:
Shall We Play A Game? Introducing The EA Game http://gotze.eu/projects/the-ea-game/ #entarch #systemthinking
I forgot to blog the link too: The EA Game project page/announcement. Still a good background read, but there’s more:
The #entarch […]