Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Business decision makers aren’t interested in the details, but they want to know important IT decisions being made in their business are in the hands of true professionals. Certification verifies the qualities and skills IT executives have with regards to the effective deployment, implementation and operation of IT solutions. Continue reading →
Finally catching up, though my cold is still such that I’m at risk of dripping into the keyboard – oh joys… Still, I do promise to return to other (more useful?) posts shortly – there’s quite a backlog built up whilst I’ve been sort-of out of action. In the meantime, yes, another week’s-worth […]
Slipping back a bit – combination of travel, bad jetlag and an even worse cold… Oh well. Anyway, another week’s-worth of Tweets and links, as usual, for whoever might find them useful.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, business-models and suchlike businessy matters:
SAlhir: White Space, Dark Matter, and Enterprise Architecture http://bit.ly/i4LBIn <strong recommend #entarch #itarch
business_design: revised my […]
This week, the European Commission announced an updated interoperability policy in the EU. The Commission has committed itself to adopt a Communication that introduces the European Interoperability Strategy (EIS) and an update to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), “two key documents […]
#entarch #orgintelligence In an earlier post, I pointed out the architectural trade-off between Complexity and Power. There may be a choice between a simple-but-inefficient solution and a more sophisticated solution, and this choice has important struc…
Supply chain risk needs focus to be able to address the concern. If everything is “a supply chain risk,” then we can’t focus our efforts and hone in on a reasonable, achievable, practical and implementable set of practices that can lead to better supply chain practices for all, and a higher degree of confidence among purchasers. Continue reading →
@ruskin147 is in California to meet the networking pioneers, including Stuart Brand.
In 1985, Stuart Brand was one of the founders of an online community called the Well. As Rory reports, the Well provided “inspiring stories of the power of online com…
Interesting article today about Andrew Zambelli, former aide to Mario Cuomo and now appointed aide to his son Andrew Cuomo, describing him as a “conceptual architect” [Capital New York, 14 December 2010]. He will be responsible for the oversight and st…
This is kinda an off topic post but it was a really interesting read and wanted to share. If you are like most architects out there, you are running at Mach 5 from meeting to meeting bringing the organization together….
Microsoft was recently at Sibos, an event facilitated and organized by SWIFT, for the SWIFT community, which creates the stimulus for learning, collaborating, developing new business, defining future strategies and taking collective action that shapes the future of the Financial…
According to ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick’s coverage of the recent Gartner Application Architecture, Development, and Integration summit, SOA governance and siloed thinking is top of mind. If this really is the case, how do we make our governance efforts more effective? The more I think about this, the more I come back to a recent post […]
I have been meaning to post on this for a while, but there is a really great library of information available to the wider global EA community free on Oracle’s web site. IT Strategies from Oracle A number of truly…