Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Adrian Grigoriu recently posted about the failure of EA frameworks to address real enterprise architecture, due to their focus on IT and lack of focus on business. He is right, of course, in pointing out that TOGAF does not cover Enterprise Archi…
Oscar Wilde the great Irish poet, writer and thinker wrote in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life”. Now why would a CTO start his new blog entry with this quote? The reason is simple. What I experie…
This the third iteration moves us from an initial idea towards actually figuring out how to put the basic building blocks together into a coherent wholeness. Usually this design stage of the business model is done in a set of workshops where different scenarios are explored. In this case the pattern behind the scenario illustrated […]
This is a first in what I hope will be a few blogs around the subject of architecture by influence. There are no shortage of people who are writing that enterprise architects can’t be successful unless they have some teeth, i.e. the ability to stop activities in their tracks that aren’t compliant with the architectural […]
A while ago I got involved in following little Twitter conversation: @pauljansen: RT @umairh the more unpredictable the world gets, the less valuable your cleverest strategy becomes < unless you go for agility @krismeukens: @pauljansen agility requ…
You need to deliver value now from your enterprise architecture and strategic IT planning programs. You need to collaborate with not only IT specialists but business managers and other planning disciplines within the enterprise. And you need to thi…
You need to deliver value now from your enterprise architecture and strategic IT planning programs. You need to collaborate with not only IT specialists but business managers and other planning disciplines within the enterprise. And you need to thi…
On Twitter, Brenda Michelson of Elemental Links started a conversation with the question: Do #entarch frameworks enable or constrain practice of (value from) enterprise architecture? In my comments back to Brenda, it became clear to me that there’s a trap that many teams fall into, not just Enterprise Architecture, and that’s falling into an inward […]
Barriers for Enterprise Architecture When working with adaption of concepts and technology then the enterprises will face issues with to identify the proper solutions in the proper pace and adapt the solutions to the context that the enterprise is within. Likewise will the enterprise face the challenge of adoption. The adoption of the concept or […]
Pardon the Phineas and Ferb reference, but when I read this post from Chris Lockhart, I couldn’t help but think of Professor Doofenschmirtz and his inventions. I really liked this post from Chris and how it emphasizes understanding the nature of the problem at hand. I’ve had first hand experience at more than one company […]
In iteration #2 there are some more details and concepts has been shifted around or renamed. The basic idea is still the same. Even though the business innovation might not be visible it is in there. As time goes by details will be found, explored and put into supporting documents.
I recently attended a Retail Technology Summit here in London where a healthy mix of CIOs, CTOs, and business leaders exchanged, shared and debated the emerging trends of IT in the Retail sector. With technology and business leaders from retail players…