IT Market Clock is Here: Enterprise Architects Get Ready, Get Set, Get to Work!

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Enterprise architects use metadata repositories to indicate the enterprise state of the items stored within.  Gartner’s IT Market Clock plots the current state and predicted lifecycle of IT products or services within a marketplace.  Enterprise architects will benefit from communicating the lifecycle positioning on internally held assets versus the marketplace perspective, as well as be […]

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IT Market Clock is Here: Enterprise Architects Get Ready, Get Set, Get to Work!

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Enterprise architects use metadata repositories to indicate the enterprise state of the items stored within.  Gartner’s IT Market Clock plots the current state and predicted lifecycle of IT products or services within a marketplace.  Enterprise architects will benefit from communicating the lifecycle positioning on internally held assets versus the marketplace perspective, as well as be […]

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Unstructured knowledge

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@SFDreverman asks (how) does unstructured knowledge hinder the collective intelligence of a group?

To start with, I am slightly puzzled by the word “hinder”. Surely unstructured knowledge is usually better than no knowledge at all, although sometimes …

Enterprise Architecture at the leadership table

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In a recent blog post, Philip Allega asked the following 4 questions. In the absence of a specific scenario to allow contextualized answers this is my 2 seconds worth.
How will you deliver business value?
By addressing specific business problems an…

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Enterprise Architecture at the leadership table

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In a recent blog post, Philip Allega asked the following 4 questions. In the absence of a specific scenario to allow contextualized answers this is my 2 seconds worth.
How will you deliver business value?
By addressing specific business problems an…

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The Rhetoric of “EA is Dead” is Dead: EA has Arrived at the Leadership Table

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In Gartner’s recent report, IT Metrics: Office of the CIO Staffing Report, 2010 , we noted that: The top-ranked function employed or implemented within the OCIO (Office of the CIO) is enterprise architecture, with 76% of respondents reporting a full-time equivalent (FTE) response to this role So, why so much angst over whether EA is “dead”?  […]

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The Rhetoric of “EA is Dead” is Dead: EA has Arrived at the Leadership Table

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In Gartner’s recent report, IT Metrics: Office of the CIO Staffing Report, 2010 , we noted that: The top-ranked function employed or implemented within the OCIO (Office of the CIO) is enterprise architecture, with 76% of respondents reporting a full-time equivalent (FTE) response to this role So, why so much angst over whether EA is “dead”?  […]

Architecture by Influence: Solution Architecture

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A key to any Enterprise Architecture program is solution architecture. Solution architecture is where work gets done. If your EA team is disconnected from the solution architecture effort, you’ll probably hear the term “ivory tower” a lot. Unfortunately, it’s far more common than you may think. Looking the typical project, the first question is where […]

Enterprise architecture the verb and the noun

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To me, enterprise architecture is both a method and a thing. (i.e. a verb and a noun) 

I have put together a summary of what this means to me and have applied some constraints. These are:

that it should fit on one presentation slide, 
should be com…