Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Following on from my blog on “Beware the new silos!” today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based too…
@davidnasser @mingk @leebryant @kaldajani and many others have tweeted the following aphorism.
‘Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”
Please permit me to quibble with this aphorism. Classify…
Introduction Enterprise Architecture as a concept can be defined as many different things, shapes and practices. Through my studies of the concept of Enterprise Architecture, I have discovered that there are as many definitions of Enterprise Architecture as there are … Continue reading →
Industry Perspective: Great Performances, Moderated by George Paras, A&G Editor-in-Chief;
Guest speakers: Mike J. Walker, Principal Architect, Microsoft, Aleks Buterman, Founder, SenseAgility, Tim Westbrock, Managing Director EAdirections, Paul P…
Moderator: George Paras, A&G Editor-in-chief Panelists: Mike J. Walker, Principal Architect with Microsoft Aleks Buterman, Founder, SenseAgility Tim Westbrock, Managing Director EAdirections Paul Preiss, CEO, IASA This was a certainly a lively panel, and I don’t envy George’s task of trying to keep it on track. Here’s what I captured. Q: What does top performing […]
From Police to Partner: Transformation of EA at Cummins, Sherry Jordan, Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Cummins
Session abstract: From once being perceived by business leaders as operational support to now being viewed as business par…
This was a panel discussion with representatives from Forrester (I believe), Troux, HP, and CA. The text below is my attempt to capture the points made by the speakers, and do not necessarily constitute my own opinions on these subjects. I didn’t capture the first couple of questions, but here’s a couple important points that […]
Tannia Dobbins, IT Relationship Manager from Advanced Micro Devices, gave this presentation. She walked through some of the key drivers behind enterprise architecture over the past 5 years at AMD, initially focused on supporting acquisitions and divestitures, moving into reducing complexity and risk when the economy downturn occurred, then to process efficiencies and business enablement, […]
In this session, David Hood, CEO of Troux, talked about Troux’s approach to the market. He began by presenting “Zucca’s Equations”: W2A: Where we are W3TG: Where we want to go HW(GT)2: How are we going to get there He called out that the need for EA is increasing at a rate much higher than […]
Architecting Standardization in a Complex Healthcare Organization, Sandy McCoy, Executive Director, Business Architecture, Kaiser Permanente
Session abstract: Technology-enabled health care requires an evolutionary approach to information management…
Imran Qayyum, an EA for Cisco, was the presenter for this session. They used the Proact BOST framework (Business Operations Systems and Technology) to get started, providing an industry specific reference model. Imran’s team is responsible for development services, which covers all sorts of software development technologies necessary for the Cisco Engineering teams to design […]
Sandra McCoy, Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture with Kaiser Permanente, gave this talk, subtitled as “Architecting Standardization in a Complex Healthcare Organization.” She mentioned that the challenges her team faces are that architects would like to work in a nice orderly fashion, but the environment never allows for that. It’s an uphill battle, with blind […]