Enterprise Architecture’s Obsession with Efficiency

Jeff Scott recently wrote a great blog "Is the current EA paradigm right for business architecture?"

http://blogs.forrester.com/jeff_scott/11-01-25-is_the_current_ea_paradigm_right_for_business_architecture

The comments section was full of erudite responses from several of the leading thinkers in EA. I’d like to pick up on two of the comments:

Tom Graves

"Most people seem to be obsessed by

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Enterprise Architecture’s Obsession with Efficiency

Jeff Scott recently wrote a great blog "Is the current EA paradigm right for business architecture?"

http://blogs.forrester.com/jeff_scott/11-01-25-is_the_current_ea_paradigm_right_for_business_architecture

The comments section was full of erudite responses from several of the leading thinkers in EA. I’d like to pick up on two of the comments:

Tom Graves

"Most people seem to be obsessed by

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PODCAST: Impact of Security Issues on Doing Business in 2011 And Beyond

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The (non) Importance of Language

Working with a variety of clients on EA initiatives one begins to realize that not everyone is a fan of EA. Specifically, they are not a fan of the “a-word”. Some organizations have abused this term with creating and assigning the title to just about a…

Insights from OpenText: What Metastorm Brings to the Company

OpenText announced Friday the completion of the Metastorm acquisition. We do many acquisitions at OpenText but this particular acquisition is very interesting for a multitude of reasons. Metastorm is the leader in business process management (BPM) which is a discipline quite related to enterprise content management (ECM). In fact, enterprise content management has long included […]

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Alstom Takes Fast Track to Application Portfolio Optimization

Enterprise Architect Xavier Ruvilly had no doubt what his CEO expected of him when Alstom Power launched its Decommissioning Task Force in early 2010: shave 20 percent a year from the IT budget at the global giant in power generation.With the ever-ris…

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