Establishing an Enterprise Architecture function

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When establishing (or indeed re-establishing) a brand new Enterprise Architecture function within an organisation there are perhaps two main approaches: A big bang approach A gradual iterative incremental approach I favour the big bang approach. This is for several reasons: 1) a big bang send a clear and confident message to everyone in the organisation that […]

A week in Tweets: 26 December 2010 – 01 January 2011

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Managing to keep up to date at present, so here’s the list of Tweets and links for the week (and year) just past. Usual categories, of course.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business strategy and suchlike:

tetradian: [post] Where is the information when we need it? http://bit.ly/hPBME3 #entarch #itarch #orgarch #systems
jdevoo: MIT SMR Analytics: New Path to Value http://bit.ly/g0ExUs – […]

A kind of change-of-year review

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Yes, it’s that time of year again, when it’s worthwhile reflecting on the old adage that we overestimate what we can do in a week, or a month, but underestimate what we can do in a whole year.
Right now I’m in one of those dreaded between-project spaces where nothing much seems to be happening. On […]

Week of Tweets – 27 Dec. 2010 – 2 Jan. 2011

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Every week I read / react to lot of tweets / posts dealing with a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content to be found on the web that can be of interest to many of my kinds. My only regrets is that I hardly keep memories of these interesting thoughts / information. This blog […]

The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section Six – Strengths and weaknesses

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The architects who are first in the field and awaits the coming of the problem, will be fresh for the task; the architects who are second in the field and has to react to the problem will be worn out by the task. Therefore the clever architect imposes his will on the problem, but does […]

Time Part 2 – Januray 1, 2011

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This post follows on from the introduction to thinking about time posted here.

In the previous post, I introduced a few of the nuanaces of time. It isn’t about the obvious things like format, timezone, precision, calendar, etc. Those are important and…

Time Part 2 – Januray 1, 2011

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This post follows on from the introduction to thinking about time posted here.In the previous post, I introduced a few of the nuanaces of time. It isn’t about the obvious things like format, timezone, precision, calendar, etc. Those are important and c…

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Some thoughts on the topic of EA

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Why do EA initiatives fail to deliver on their promise? (PA#1.1) Why did Spock fail to be logical? (PA#1.2) We only ask people and projects to be compliant never committed to the vision presented by EA. (PA#1.3) EA is envisioned, built and executed as a static structure but sold as the generator of dynamic behavior. […]

5 Innovations for 2011

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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” said Alan Kay, one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces, back in 1971 as quoted in SmallTalk.org. That’s sage advice for the CIO trying to determine where technology is headed, and what it means for the company. Seventy percent of the senior business and IT executives in PwC’s Diamond Advisory Services’ 2010 Digital IQ study said that […]

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