Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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 […]
This is Part II of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Part I can be viewed here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out there. So, over time,…
This is Part II of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Part I can be viewed here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out there. So, over time,…
Recently Gartner released the 2010 Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture (EA). It’s an interesting report. I’m not sure if there are really any surprises here but it worth looking at the macro themes of the report. You can find additional…
The Cloud offering space is getting rather busy as we expected this summer. Capgemini annoucement of “Immediate” and its pilot with Royal Mail, closely follows other major developments such as IBM’s acquisition of Cast Iron. While IBM claims to get bet…
Wave was supposed to be another jewel in the already crowded Google crown. Surely this next generation communication tool was going to join the ranks of ultra-successful Search, super-popular Mail and upcoming star Android. When Google announced this a…
Since I completed both the UBC Sauder School of Business – Certificate in Management Excellence and the Carnegie Mellon Institute of Software Research International – Certified Enterprise Architect program, I have been looking to take the n…
One of the key ideas within the Enterprise Architecture (EA) is simplification. There is even an architecture principle within the OEAF (Oracle’s EA Framework) and TOGAF around “Controlling Technical Diversity”. I took the liberty of assigning the tagl…