The Zen of EA

Study existing business practices to create an understanding of the business model of your organization and its high-level business processes Engage with senior management to unlock the meaning of  strategic intent Connect internal with middle management and external with the business community to uncover urgent needs and trends Build a panoramic understanding of the existing […]

ITSO – Behind the Scenes

This blog entry provides some “behind the scenes” commentary concerning the creation of the documents collectively known as IT Strategies from Oracle.
There were three key concerns that the Oracle Reference Architecture (ORA) documentation approach nee…

Security & architecture: Convergence, or never the twain shall meet?

Can the disciplines of architecture and information security do a better job of co-existence? What would that look like? Can we get to the point where security is truly “built in” versus “bolted on”? Continue reading

A week in Tweets: 21-27 November 2010

Almost caught up with the backlog: another week’s-worth of Tweets and links, usual categories, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link:

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and other business-type stuff:

thoughttrans: RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth’s Blog: Groping for a marketing solution: TSA and security theater http://bit.ly/9P5fVx <agree: time for a serious rethink #bizarch
vernaallee: RT @Gartner_inc: Gartner Identifies Four Converging Trends […]

Creating a compelling visual story

One thing that I’ve become fascinated with over the past few years is the difference between people who have good ideas, and people who use good ideas to bring about change. I’m not alone to notice that the folks who originate a concept are usuall…

Creating a compelling visual story

One thing that I’ve become fascinated with over the past few years is the difference between people who have good ideas, and people who use good ideas to bring about change.
I’m not alone to notice that the folks who originate a concept are…

How to Make Decision Making More Adaptable with Layers

Co-authored with John Sviokla Never before has such a mass of data existed. Needless to say, all this information complicates the decision-making process. Businesses need new strategies to answer the biggest question: How do we effectively sift through the mountain of information to gain valuable insights. Layers is a term we use for visual information systems that combine publicly available and company-owned tools to present relevant and contextual information—in a format that starts with the […]

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