Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
This blog post is based on the guest lecture that Chris Potts performed at the course B30 Enterprise Strategy, Business and Technology at the IT University of Copenhagen the 25th of October 2010. It is growing sense around the world that Enterprise Architecture is dealing with more than IT; however since the concept’s origin from […]
#entarch There are some critical structural issues for business organizations, which have critical implications for IT architecture, including generating new requirements for management information systems and collaboration platforms. However, these st…
An enterprise operates at several different tempi. For example
A retail chain has one tempo aligned to the customer visiting the store, a longer tempo for purchasing and logistics, and a longer one still for planning and establishing new stores
A mili…
There was a great discussion on Twitter today regarding influence, mandates, and leadership. My interest started with a tweet from Chris Venable, directed at Burton Group/Gartner EA analyst, Mike Rollings: If EA is so important, why must it do everything through influence? No one ever says that to the CIO… I thought this was a […]
Enterprise Architects get involved in some pretty hairy discussions. One responsibility that tends to fall to Enterprise Architecture is to steer the evolution of the business and/or business infrastructure away from needless complexity and towar…
The Nobel Prize Case study workshop was conducted & presented at the Open Group Conference in Amsterdam (2010)The session was led by Harry Hendrickx – CTO at Hewlett Packard.It was an investigation into whether business architecture can be described using natural language rather than any form of modelling language that requires learned semantics (meaning).This post is my extract of the
The Nobel Prize Case study workshop was conducted & presented at the Open Group Conference in Amsterdam (2010)The session was led by Harry Hendrickx – CTO at Hewlett Packard.It was an investigation into whether business architecture can be described using natural language rather than any form of modelling language that requires learned semantics (meaning).This post is my extract of the
The Nobel Prize Case study workshop was conducted & presented at the Open Group Conference in Amsterdam (2010)The session was led by Harry Hendrickx – CTO at Hewlett Packard.It was an investigation into whether business architecture can be described using natural language rather than any form of modelling language that requires learned semantics (meaning).This post is my extract of the
The Nobel Prize Case study workshop was conducted & presented at the Open Group Conference in Amsterdam (2010)The session was led by Harry Hendrickx – CTO at Hewlett Packard.It was an investigation into whether business architecture can be described using natural language rather than any form of modelling language that requires learned semantics (meaning).This post is my extract of the
#entarch My friend @taotwit appeals to a saying of Confucius in relation to enterprise architecture.
What is necessary is to call things by their right names. … If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If lang…
I frequently find that there is much confusion about the modelling of Behaviour in an Enterprise Architecture model, specifically between the concepts of Business Capability, Business Function and Business Process. The various enterprise architecture glossaries all differ in their definition of these. For example the TOGAF ADM or ISEB definitions don’t help as much as […]
Interesting article by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, The Coherence Premium. HBR June 2010 http://www.booz.com/media/uploads/HBR_Coherence_Premium.pdf
The authors define the “coherent company” as one that “has aligned its differentiating internal…