Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
So where do you go from the position of being the most successful chip maker in the industry? What do you do to evolve your business and revenue model? Well how about buying an antivirus company (sorry! security technology company)? Sounds bizarre? Wel…
I took a tour of The Pearl Brewery last week, led by REAL ARCHITECTS. Although I’m not associated with such building architects normally, I was pleased to see how ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE is applicable in the work associated with the development of this former brewery, originally built in 1883, as it transforms itself it 1.2 million square feet […]
Just as I thought my academic publication career was over, today I noticed that the International Journal of Information Technology and Management finally published our comparative case study on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the banking sector. The article is an … Continue reading →
Jim Peters, CTO at SITA wrote an interesting blog a few days back – though it started off with an Intel announcement, Jim was really commenting on increasing demand for computing power. I posted the following comment to his blog post.In a sense the bus…
Todd Biske posted a summary of a conversation he had with Mike Rollings, Brenda Michelson, Chris Bird and others. They were discussing the future of Enterprise Architecture. A theme that emerged from their talks focused on whether your practice is de…
Yesterday afternoon, I was involved with a discussion around EA 201x. The conversation began at a lunch meeting I had with Mike Rollings (@mikerollings) of Burton Group/Gartner, and continued on with Brenda Michelson (@bmichelson) of Elemental Links and fellow EA Chris Bird (@seabird20), among others. Near the end of the conversation, Chris asked the question, […]
The Basics of the Review The review is dealing with Integrated Integrated Governance. Integrated Governance is defined as how corporate strategy, IT strategy, IT governance and Enterprise Architecture are aligned and dealt with. I have chosen to limit the amount of topics to cope with my limited resources. Therefor I selected what I assumed were […]
One of the great benefits of my long summer vacations from the Danish Ministry of Finance is that I have had more time for reading the stuff than my normal schedule would allow. I try to stay on top of … Continue reading →
Jeff Scott recently posted a blog listing 14 challenges faced by business architects. They really apply to any enterprise architecture practice, and I wanted to call out and comment on a few of them. Lack of business skills in the EA team. I commented directly on Jeff’s post on this one. I am sure there […]
Over the years, we architects have been taught to design systems that maintain equilibrium. We designed for service levels, deployed security countermeasures, and built complicated solutions to meet 100% of our requireme…
Over the years, we architects have been taught to design systems that maintain equilibrium. We designed for service levels, deployed security countermeasures, and built complicated solutions to meet 100% of our requireme…
The Introduction Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee has written the paper “Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference” that was published in 2007 in by Harvard Business Review. The paper deals with how enterprises deals with competition in the United States. McAfee & Brynjolfsson argues that most enterprises are in state of hard […]