Posts from 2012:
- What have I done this year?
- Get your objectives right
- The Business Model Canvas is neither ontology nor business architecture, it is a value chain
- How information systems learn
- Togaf and GERAM
- Link Collection — December 30, 2012
- Organizational Intelligence Forum – Spring 2013
- Organizational Intelligence Forum – Spring 2013
- Enterprise Architecture Forum – Spring 2013
- The Center of Excellence: Relating Everything Back to Business Objectives
- Feelings are facts
- Family
- Creating Reference Architecture: The Center of Excellence
- Implementing SOA through TOGAF 9.1: The Center Of Excellence
- EA Roadmap for success: the Architecture Board
- Albert Einstein – Problem solving
- Personal Maturity versus Organizational Maturity in CMMI® – Presentation
- 5 Microsoft developments to look forward to in 2013
- 4 security trends that defined 2012 and will impact 2013
- Walmart vs Starbucks: A tale of two successful Facebook strategies
- Working with Business Processes
- Working with Business Processes
- How to describe organization structure – Matrix versus Lattice
- Invention (Innovation) Not Strategy Creates Renaissance – Moving from Darwinian Adaptive to Generative Transformation
- “What value will a Solution Architect add to this?”
- Enterprise Architects Will Need To …
- Enterprise Architects Will Need To …
- Steps To Create a Core Diagram
- Best practices – adapt, then adopt
- The contribution of the leader among architects
- How to get the best Business Value from Social Media (microblogging) within your Enterprise
- Paralyzed by Cloud? Keep up planning and supporting your organization!
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Traceability
- Quick Strategy Assessments and Scoping with Business Capability Wheels
- Link Collection — December 16, 2012
- ★ D2a5839c8e4de, Bob left a message for you
- Top Ten Global Proficiency Challenges Impeding Growth
- Top Ten Global Proficiency Challenges Impeding Growth
- Zachman’s is neither a framework nor an ontology, it is a development process
- Troux Worldwide Conference 2013
- #ogChat Summary – 2013 Security Priorities
- What came first Design (Gene – DNA – Chromosomes) or Building Material (Protein) :- Architecture Paradox
- Welcome!
- Design for Regulation
- Fantasy Football as a Metaphor for Big Data
- Smartphone and Tablet Version of TOGAF 9
- A Personal Thank You for My Half Century
- Presentation: Its Not about How Smart You Are
- The Importance of Business Systems
- What happens when kurtosis-risk eventuates
- Externalization trend – from 2007-2013
- “What is reification? This is when ugliness of reality is eschewed in favor of a beautiful model….”
- “What is reification? This is when ugliness of reality is eschewed in favor of a beautiful model….”
- Poor Information Security Can Lead to Tragedy
- Operational Resilience through Managing External Dependencies
- The Art of Enterprise Architecture has been published
- Everything you’ve read about IT Project Failure is wrong
- Co-Production of Strategy and Execution
- Gamification and infinite-games
- Reflecting on IT service management issues for 2012
- Leveraging Roadmaps to Link Business and Technology
- DSM: A useful tool for process improvement efforts
- DSM: A useful tool for process improvement efforts
- The Next Power Pairing: CIO and HRO
- EA Professional Oath
- Project Governance Tips
- Different Words Meant Different Things, Part 3
- Different Words Mean Different Things, Part 2
- Showrooming in the Knowledge Economy
- Basic is Best
- Basic is Best
- Should Shouldn’t Matter
- How to Measure a CIO’s Effectiveness
- Antifragility and bullying
- Doing the Right Thing vs. Doing Things Right
- Selling Federal Enterprise Architecture (EA)
- Selling Federal Enterprise Architecture (EA)
- Different Words Mean Different Things, Part 1
- Control, complexity and chaos
- Showrooming and Multi-sided Markets
- The Future of Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Understanding Business Services 2
- Questions for the Upcoming 2013 Security Priorities Tweet Jam – Dec. 11
- Zachman’s is a process rather than a framework or an ontology
- Not the New Normal
- An Approach To Project Assessments
- Challenge-Led Innovation
- The Business Architect’s Service Portfolio Part Five: Designing the Portfolio
- The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach
- The Open Group Newport Beach Conference – Early Bird Registration Ends January 4
- Enterprise Architecture state and causes in ten points
- On the Cultural-Linguistic Turn
- When is Bike not a Business Rule.
- When is Bike not a Business Rule.
- Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013
- The cyclist-shopper’s tale
- Gartner Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant 2012
- Back to basics
- Goodbye Baked Ham
- Goodbye Baked Ham
- Understanding Business Services
- Principles and checklists
- Architecting for Secure Business Collaboration
- Introducing IT Service Management Using a Core Service Catalogue
- Collaboration and anticollaboration – a tangible metaphor
- Enterprise Architecture Asset Failure and Flow
- 3 steps to free your business from the IT stranglehold (and vice versa)
- 3 steps to free your business from the IT stranglehold (and vice versa)
- When all pieces fit like a perfect leather glove
- By Thinking!
- “Making Pianos” or “Being an Artist”
- “Making Pianos” or “Being an Artist”
- Type A’s Needed!
- 2013 Security Priorities – Tweet Jam
- Function, capability and affordance
- Enable Cloud Strategy and Planning with Predictable Methods, Models, and Tools
- Enterprise Architecture – A Perfect Tool for Operating Model Management
- Enterprise Architecture – A Perfect Tool for Operating Model Management
- Cash to Delivery
- Cash to Delivery
- busoto is collaboration
- Consumable architectures
- A data hoarder’s delight
- A data hoarder’s delight
- The Business Architect’s Service Portfolio Part Four: Project Support Services
- Discover the World’s First Technical Cloud Computing Standard… for the Second Time
- On chaos in enterprise-architecture
- Why bother with diversity skills?
- Is the Enterprise Architect leading the enterprise development?
- IASA World Summit 2012 Conference
- Business Performance Management, the next big thing…again
- Modernising Job Titles
- SOA for Profits
- Embrace Empathy – Observed the start of a Paradigm Shift
- Business Performance Management, the next big thing…again
- Helping Your Helpdesk
- Should there be one, none or more Enterprise Architecture frameworks?
- Data Protection Today and What’s Needed Tomorrow
- New Publication: A Systemic-Discursive Framework for Enterprise Architecture
- New Publication: A Systemic-Discursive Framework for Enterprise Architecture
- Using Stories to Bridge the Attention Chasm
- Using Stories to Bridge the Attention Chasm
- Business Architecture enables Tactical “doers” to implement Strategy – Part 2
- Where’s the best place for enterprise-architecture?
- Case Management Top Influencers Study: Academics and Standards Organizations Driving Case Management Knowledge, Growth, Adoption and Evolution
- Two Weeks with Microsoft’s Surface RT
- 2012 Fickle Market (Red Curve) – Despite Steady GDP Historical View – Total Market Capitalization
- The Planning Paradox
- Conflicting Narratives
- Agile Architecture
- What is Enterprise 2.0?
- The Planning Paradox
- Metaframeworks in practice, Part 5: Enterprise Canvas
- Embrace Emotions to Induct Innovation
- Planning Is Not Enough
- Functional Organization at Microsoft
- Get data responsibility out of IT? Bad idea.
- Metaframeworks in practice, Part 4: Context-space mapping and SCAN
- Business Architect Skills Assessment
- Seeing is not observing
- On Agility, Culture and Intelligence
- Learning to See
- Business Architect Skills Assessment
- How the CIO can Sleuth Mobile Systems
- The Cloud Infrastructure for Next-Generation – Big Data Computing
- The Business Architect’s Service Portfolio Part Three: Organizational Change Services
- The satellite model
- Metaframeworks in practice, Part 3: Five Elements
- The Tagging Trap
- Stories that Move Mountains – is out !
- Stories that Move Mountains – is out !
- Co-Production of Data and Knowledge
- Metaframeworks in practice, Part 2: Iterative-TOGAF
- Link Collection — November 11, 2012
- Leadership 2.0: Are You An Adaptive Leader?
- Metaframeworks in practice, Part 1: Extended-Zachman
- Metaframeworks in practice: Introduction
- Apple’s Falling Stock Has Analysts Questioning the Company’s Dominance
- Voterball: The Data Disruption of Electoral Politics
- Is Organizational Integration a Good Thing?
- May I introduce the Enterprise Architect
- Methods, mechanics, approaches
- Case Management Top Influencers Study: System Integrators and Vendors Driving Case Management Knowledge, Growth, Adoption and Evolution
- The Agile Enterprise Value Chain
- Mastery and Architecting
- Rethinking the DIKW hierarchy
- The Purpose of Business Architecture
- On Business Architecture and Management Accounting
- Telefónica squares up to Amazon
- AOL Q3 2012: Revenue Flat At $531.7M, Traffic Up, Ad Revenue Up
- HTC revenues continue to drop at alarming rates
- Marissa Mayer’s Plan To Shrink Yahoo
- iPhone Loyalty Is Waning – Are You Surprised?
- Learning Lessons Learned
- Call for Submissions
- How Adaptive Case Management Can Help in the Battle for Same Day Delivery
- Obliquity, serendipity and purpose
- Deliver late or less: best options for a behind-schedule project?
- Deliver late or less: best options for a behind-schedule project?
- Publishing The Art of Enterprise Architecture
- On human ‘applications’ in EA models
- The Nexus and IT Jobs – It’s Hip to be Square
- The Nexus and IT Jobs – It’s Hip to be Square
- The Story behind “Stories That Move Mountains”
- On starting a new EA group
- Architect Scrum
- On metaframeworks in enterprise-architecture
- Snapshots of The Open Group Barcelona Conference
- Introducing the Requisite Variety Blog
- Realizing the Agile Enterprise
- 45 Days into My Adventure
- Showing my age, I guess…
- Build Upon SOA Governance to Realize Cloud Governance
- Case Management Top Influencers Study: End Users Driving Case Management Knowledge, Growth, Adoption and Evolution
- Architecture and Reality
- From AS-IS to TO-BE
- Requirements and constraints
- Potts in Copenhagen
- Architecture and the Imagination
- What is Enterprise Architecture? Accurate. In plain…
- What is Enterprise Architecture? Accurate. In plain…
- Good High-Level Enterprise Architecture Video
- Barcelona Highlights
- Can TOGAF be updated to deliver EA?
- Barcelona Conference Spotlight: Dr. Robert Winter
- Documenting Software Architectures
- Embrace Emergent Complexity or Hail the Hairball Architecture
- Earthquakes and enterprise-architecture
- Link Collection — October 28, 2012
- Social EA Logo
- A quick metablog
- On sensemaking-models and framework-wars
- Enterprise Architecture state and causes (iv)
- The Open Group Conference in Barcelona – Day One Recap
- The Case Management Top Influencers Study: Why We Did It
- Data ambiguity and tolerance of errors
- Data ambiguity and tolerance of errors
- New Webinar –Transform Vision into Value: Managing the Strategy to Execution Process
- The Case Management Top Influencers Study: Who are the main influencers for Case Management?
- It is your Circus, and it’s always your Monkey
- It is your Circus, and it’s always your Monkey
- The Architecture For This Project Is Out Of Scope
- Technology Architecture Questions for Vendors
- Key Concepts Underpinning Identity Management
- Frankenframeworks
- Evolving the Enterprise Architecture Body of Knowledge
- SCAN and Causal Layered Analysis
- TOGAF Templates
- Plan versus Policy – Badgers Reprieved
- Enterprise architects need to be good communicators #2 Larry…
- Enterprise architects need to be good communicators #2 Larry…
- Platform Building Thoughts
- Platform Building Thoughts
- Numbers Deceive Only Those Who Want To Be Deceived
- Numbers Deceive Only Those Who Want To Be Deceived
- How Can CIOs Prepare for the Age of the Customer?
- Cynefin and the Chaotic domain – a (non)-review
- Cynefin and the Chaotic domain – an update
- A Cautionary Tale
- Executive Education With Penn State: Enterprise Transformation & Integration
- The Best Debater May Not Be the Best Enterprise Architect
- Power-issues in EA – tread carefully…
- Link Collection — October 21, 2012
- The Business Architect’s Service Portfolio Part Two: Organizational Performance Services
- Evolution of VC Business Models
- Evolution of VC Business Models
- ArchiMate® 2.0 and Beyond
- House and home
- Technology Vendor Selection – Best of Breed or Suite Based
- Cultivate Collisions
- The Open Group is Livestreaming The Open Group Barcelona Conference
- Slidedeck for BCS-EA 2012 now online
- SOA Provides Needed Support for Enterprise Architecture in Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Says Open Group Panel
- Data wants to flow — active information
- OpenText in Life Sciences – DIA’s EDM and ERS/eCDT Conference
- Ideal Circumstances for EA Frameworks
- A Strong Personal Brand can Help EAs Become More Effective
- Enterprise architects need to be good communicators. Actioning…
- The Evolution of PaaS in the Enterprise
- The Evolution of PaaS in the Enterprise
- Power and politics in enterprise-architecture
- Agile Manifesto for the Enterprise
- Business Architecture enables Tactical “doers” to implement Strategy – Part 1
- Don’t Think You Are, Know You Are!
- Two enterprise-architectures
- Guide the Energy
- Slow Down to Speed up EA Results
- Don’t Get Distracted by the Document
- Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas
- The Business Architect’s Service Portfolio Part One: Strategy Development and Articulation Services
- Agile Business Conference 2012 Report
- Snapshots of Spain: The Open Group Conference Photo Contest
- US Navy Updates it’s Enterprise Architecture Framework to 4.0
- Think Enterprise First
- Heal the Eternal Disconnect Between Project Managers and Enterprise Architects!
- Design is scope. The budget is a fence that will make good…
- Regulation and Complexity
- Heal the Eternal Disconnect Between Project Managers and Enterprise Architects!
- The Open Group SOA Governance Framework Becomes an International Standard
- What are the benefits of Benefits Maps?
- What are the benefits of Benefits Maps?
- Enterprise Architecture status quo
- The Rise and Rise of BYOD
- The Rise and Rise of BYOD
- Challenge the Status Quo and Advance Business through Cloud Computing
- Embracing Ignorance and Failure to Innovate
- A question of organizational identity
- Less Is More
- Enterprise as story: a cafe example
- The Open Group SOA Governance Framework Becomes an International Standard
- Definition as EA anti-pattern?
- Enterprise Architecture state and causes (iii)
- Architecture-by-definition is an anti-pattern. The goal of a…
- The Enterprise Architecture Matrix
- Between the boxes
- given up on balance
- I am a ChickenBrain
- “It depends…”
- Forthcoming Events
- Delusion and Diversity
- Whose target is it anyway?
- I Thought I had Said it All – and Then Comes Service Technology
- Social Enterprise Platforms – Meet Dynamic Case Management
- How anti-clients happen (and what to do about it)
- The Enterprise Architecture design has to begin with the whole rather than the parts
- Complexity SCANs in GLUE
- Link Collection — October 7, 2012
- PACE SCAN
- WISE SCAN – Revised
- Co-inspiring in the Chaotic domain
- Enterprise Architecture state and causes, (ii)
- EPIC SCAN in GLUE
- Enterprise Architecture’s Transition to Consumer Oriented Services
- Viewpoint: Technology Supply Chain Security – Becoming a Trust-Worthy Provider
- Enterprise Architecture’s Transition to Consumer Oriented Services
- Define Cloud Computing and Abolish Cloud Confusion!
- Think Enterprise First
- Disruptive technology take two. Enterprise architecture is about…
- So, have you asked these two questions lately: What…
- On the Causes of Business Complexity
- Same and different
- The core questions need to be answered
- A Simple Plan: How Adaptive Case Management Helps Financial Institutions Overcome Challenges
- Lessons Learned from Social Networking: How CIOs Can Use EPM to Break Down Organizational Silos
- Future State versus Vision – Where are you headed?
- Five Types of Bad Chief Architect Characters – We Have The Whole List!
- Is Enterprise Architecture accountable for improving customer experience?
- Survey: Data Breaches Driving Customers Away
- Management, change and big data — active information
- Implementing SOA through TOGAF 9.1: the Center Of Excellence
- Implementing SOA through TOGAF 9.1: the Center Of Excellence
- Don’t Panic
- Link Collection — September 30, 2012
- EA Forum Report
- At Unicom EA: breaking free from IT-centrism
- How would you know that the architecture is right?
- EA Questions
- Convergence – Symbolic, Imaginary or Real?
- It Is a Big World for Big Data After All
- Beyond Multiview
- A Whole New World
- Does Rigour Matter?
- A matter of perspective
- How the Operating System Got Graphical
- Identity Registries and Reconciliation Posture
- 30 Days on Oblique Strategies, the ebook
- #ogChat Summary – The Future of BYOD
- Agile Enterprise Patterns
- American Idol and Twitter teach us about Elections — active information
- The Architect’s Transformation: From Master Technician to Business Strategist
- Pre-Requirement Estimation for IT Projects
- Service, function and capability (an addendum)
- Service, function and capability (again)
- Architecture for business experiments
- GLUE Value Add
- Using the System Architect Migration Toolkit to Migrate Your DoDAF 1.5 Models to DoDAF 2.0
- Why Enterprise Architects Must Drive Cloud Strategy and Planning
- The Meeting is Almost Unnecessary
- Glue Decks – Represented Different
- Agile GLUE
- Scalability
- The theory of enterprise-architecture
- How to build a Roadmap – Define Current State
- Skills-shortages and ‘the market’
- Questions to EA researchers
- The perfect abstractions or just Lost In Translation?
- Survey: What Global CEOs Want from Technology
- Questions for the Upcoming BYOD Tweet Jam – Sept. 18
- Fixing Flows
- BPM Process Accelerator Packs – Update
- BPM Process Accelerator Packs – Update
- Linking enterprise-architecture with solution-architecture
- A Case for an EA Approach
- Rants are Useful
- GLUE Disease
- Will The Real Business Architect Please Stand Up?
- A CIO’s Dilemma: Cut Costs or Invest in Innovation?
- The efforts spent on definitions
- CoProduction and OrgIntelligence in Healthcare
- Enterprise Canvas ebook is now available
- Many (flawed) Definitions of Business Architecture
- Frameworks, models and meta-models, governance policies,…
- Should you design for bad behaviour or try to control it? This…
- The Future of BYOD – Tweet Jam
- PODCAST: The Open Group FACE™ Consortium is Providing the Future of Airborne Systems
- When Tomorrow is Today
- On working with uncertainty
- Current State EA: Focus on the Integration!!!
- Current State EA: Focus on the Integration!!!
- There is Not a Simple Solution to Every Problem
- SCAN ebook is now available
- The deliverables of enterprise architecture
- Link Collection — September 9, 2012
- Another way of running projects
- GLUE – Updated Framework
- ResEArch positions
- Enterprise Architecture and classical visualisation techniques
- Transformation to Agile IT Delivery
- The Meaning of Iteration
- Architecture as Jenga
- Enterprise Architecture visualisation
- The Illusion of Architecture
- GLUE Journeys – Obvious missed
- GLUE Decks – Journey between the Decks
- Ending the shoot-out at the EA Corral
- Create a Social Community of Trust Along With Your Federal Digital Services Governance
- Create a Social Community of Trust Along With Your Federal Digital Services Governance
- Designing flexibilities into systems and enterprises
- Designing flexibilities into systems and enterprises
- Take a Lesson from History to Integrate to the Cloud
- The social construction of process
- Experiencing culture
- Why I write long posts
- Going from just good enough to being great
- GLUE Journeys – next attempt
- Creating a Powerful Vision
- The meaning of process
- Intension vs Extension
- Intension vs Extension
- Reflecting on Management
- Unbreaking
- GLUE Journey – Do Business Defence
- Innovation and GLUE
- Enterprise-architecture is wicked
- Modeling portals, services, and widgets using ArchiMate®
- Common Words
- Enterprise Architecting Past, Future or Present
- Twenty Years and Counting
- A bit more broken
- Modeling Enterprise Architectures using System Dynamics
- Modeling Enterprise Architectures using System Dynamics
- Why broken?
- GLUE Governance
- The Complicated Complexity Confusion Principle Complexity is an…
- “Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret Society.”
- TOGAF® and BIAN – A strong proposition for the Banking Industry
- Real Enterprise Architecture
- Broken
- Always remember the next larger context
- Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret-Society
- From Annoyances to Dragon1 Golden Principles
- GLUE Journeys
- The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III
- The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III
- Gillian Stamp on Effective Decision-Making
- People in GLUE
- The motivation dilemma
- About Business Architecture, BizBOK and business architects
- The egg-sorting machine
- GLUE Roles and Responsibilities
- Taking a Careful Slice – Defining Business Architecture
- ‘No jobs for generalists’ – a summary
- Generalists versus specialists
- Podcast on the Enterprise Architecture profession–Interview with CIPS’s Stephen Ibaraki
- GLUE Delivery
- GLUE Tailoring Domains
- Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [3e]
- GLUE Domains
- The Enterprise Architecture state and root causes (i)
- GLUE Space
- Secrets Behind the Rapid Growth of SOA
- Weekend warriors rejoice: sensors to improve your game
- Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [3d]
- GLUE Divisions
- Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [3c]
- Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [3b]
- Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [3a]
- EA Effectiveness and Process Standardization
- The EA Metamodel behind the Business Model Generation
- Glue Decks
- The Mindset of a Mobile Ready Enterprise
- Early Autumn Events 2012
- Health Care Reform sought by Integrating Public Health and Private Personal Care
- EA is Free
- Optimizing ISO/IEC 27001 Using O-ISM3
- GLUE Disciplines
- Data analysis issue, or data collection issue?
- Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [2]
- GLUE Vision
- Service-Mediation Scenarios
- Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ [1]
- The demographics of the enterprise
- The Open Group Barcelona Conference – Early Bird Registration ends September 21
- Answering Some Questions on EA
- More on ‘No jobs for generalists’
- Enterprise Architecture (EA) versus Enterprise IT Architecture debate
- Challenges to Building a Global Identity Ecosystem
- Why enterprise-architecture must be broader than just IT
- Why Most Organizations Have Weak Visions
- WEBINAR: The Jericho Forum Presents Identity Key Concepts
- There are no jobs for generalists
- Which came first the Enterprise Architecture or the Requirements?
- Which came first the Enterprise Architecture or the Requirements?
- Sensemaking – modes and disciplines
- The Enterprise Architecture function role is not of enterprise factotum
- Beliefs and Capabilities
- At least three views of business architecture (TOGAF)
- More on boundary of identity versus control
- Aligning the EBMM with Archimate
- Enterprise Agile: extending the agile process outside development
- Enterprise Agile: extending the agile process outside development
- Boundary of identity, boundary of control
- Australia’s sexism strikes again…
- The Zachman Framework Requires ZERO Documentation
- Counting the Cost of Cloud
- Philosophy of Enterprise Architecture
- Sensemaking and the swamp-metaphor
- ArchiMate 2.0 – Ready for the Future of Enterprise Architecture!
- Why the CIO Should Heed Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits
- 4713 days and counting…
- The enterprise architects way of driving on Manhattan
- Entities and Entitlement – The Bigger Picture of Identity Management
- On learning enterprise-architecture
- Sequestration Planning May Illuminate Value Engineering via Enterprise Architecture
- Sequestration Planning May Illuminate Value Engineering via Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise, organisation and the Olympics
- Resistance to Architecture
- Defining Architecture
- Summer School (Week 31, 2012)
- Link Collection — August 5, 2012
- Intelligence Failures at Barclays Bank
- Order, unorder and effectiveness
- Transformative Enterprise Architecture Framework – Connecting Strategy – Tactical (Operational) – Execution (Implementation)
- Smalltalks: “Things happening with and around the programming paradigm Smalltalk”
- Complex, complicated, and Einstein’s dice
- When less is more
- My New Adventure
- DoDAF EA Competencies Development Framework
- Metaphor For Generative Transformation
- Using Cobit 5 Part 3 – The Policy Hierarchy
- Speaking at TechEd New Zealand on Business Architecture
- Everything As a Service
- Developing Enterprise Architecture Practitioner Competencies
- Video Highlights Day 2 of Washington, D.C.
- Move to Cloud Need Not Be Sensational
- Move to Cloud Need Not Be Sensational
- Five principles I use to plan my day
- Five principles I use to plan my day
- Reflections of the Washington, D.C. Conference
- How to avoid common mistakes with your EA program – Part III
- The value of an Interface Catalogue
- The value of an Interface Catalogue
- Is there a place for LOCATION in Business Architecture?
- Using Cobit 5 – Part 2: Policy Nomenclature
- Trust and Privacy – In an Identity Management Ecosystem
- 30 days on oblique strategies
- 5 Steps to Brighten Shadow IT
- Using COBIT 5 – Part 1: Principles
- Updates to Cynefin
- Money, price and value in EA (shorter version)
- Link Collection — July 29, 2012
- Money, price and value in enterprise-architecture
- If Churchill had been an Enterprise Architect…
- Business Process Manifesto Published
- Uncle Sam….Agile??
- Uncle Sam….Agile??
- Quality-systems and enterprise-architecture
- Open CA and Enterprise Architecture certification, take it or leave it? (II)
- Will Enterprise Architecture Ever “Cross the Chasm?”
- Visibility, Context, Correctness & Responsiveness — active information meets change-friendly
- Drawing a line…
- Drawing a line…
- The LEARN principle
- Where the CIO sits makes no difference to EA?
- Where the CIO sits makes no difference to EA?
- Five Steps To Becoming A Better Business Architect
- Apple Registers Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to the UNIX® 03 Standard
- a Dragon’s approach to Enterprise Architecture
- The Integrity Unit Pattern
- Real-world and Online Personas – From an Identity Management Perspective
- Towards a metamodel of business architecture …
- How do you reward failure?
- Summer in the Capitol – Looking Back at The Open Group Conference in Washington, D.C.
- How do you reward failure?
- Checklists and complexity
- Lessons from Bechtel on making information valuable via APIs — active information
- Whitepaper Business Information Planning with ArchiMate® 2.0
- Link Collection — July 22, 2012
- Which EA tools? – and why?
- Feedback loops: the central tool for understanding everything around us?
- Feedback loops: the central tool for understanding everything around us?
- TOGAF® 9 Certification Growth – Number of Individuals Certified Doubles in the Last 12 Months – Now Over 14,800
- Had to communicate a high level roadmap to some stakeholders….
- New Enterprise Architecture Blog – www.enterprise-advocate.com
- New Enterprise Architecture Blog – www.enterprise-advocate.com
- Journal of Enterprise Architecture August 2012
- Career Survival Skills for Gearheads
- Career Survival Skills for Gearheads
- Open CA and Enterprise Architecture certification, take it or leave it?
- Understanding the Importance of Identity
- The Journey from Visibility to Governance to Standardization to Reuse
- The Journey from Visibility to Governance to Standardization to Reuse
- Higher Ed CIO Challenges 3 – Cloud Computing Services
- Management Information for Managing Innovation
- Should the CIO Ban Email?
- Framework versus body-of-knowledge
- THE FIVE “Vs” OF LEADERSHIP
- I don’t know what it is about simple geometric shapes but…
- IT Jobs – Misplaced Value?
- IT Jobs – Misplaced Value?
- Rules, principles, belief and faith
- Conference Highlight: Exhibitors
- Implementing an Enterprise Architecture function in different organisations: Implementing EA in commercial organizations (5/5)
- Architecture Styles
- Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test
- Enterprise Architecture & Complexity Theory
- Enterprise Architecture: First stop, Building Architecture, then on to a Science!
- Using Foursquare at #ogDCA
- Link Collection — July 15, 2012
- ArchiMate at the Washington, D.C. Conference #ogDCA
- Leveraging TOGAF to Deliver DoDAF Capabilities
- The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum is Leading the Way to Securing Global IT Supply Chains
- 3 Practices to turn Big Data aspirations into business value – Active Information
- Moving house, redecorating…
- Big Data, Social, Mobile, Cloud and… Case Management?
- The project-related concerns of Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture Benefits
- #ogChat Summary – Walled Garden Networks
- Contrasting Tale of Two Retailers – ASOS and Marks & Spencer
- Contrasting Tale of Two Retailers – ASOS and Marks & Spencer
- Higher Ed CIO Challenges 2 – Consumerization of IT
- I seem to be drawing a lot of pyramids lately. This one was…
- Social Networking at The Open Group Washington, D.C. Conference (#ogDCA)
- How to avoid common mistakes with your EA program Part II
- EA in the icefjord
- Positioning an Enterprise Architect for Success
- Social Networks – Challenging an Open Internet? Walled Gardens Tweet Jam
- IT Organizations, like any Business Support Organization, Deliver Business Value
- The Open Group and MIT Experts Detail New Advances in ID Management to Help Reduce Cyber Risk
- Politics of Enterprise Architecture
- ArchiMate core – Patterns
- Link Collection — July 8, 2012
- Enterprise Architecture & Systems Thinking
- Values of a good enterprise architect
- Values of a good enterprise architect
- “Implementing” the Zachman Framework™
- Higher Ed CIO Challenge 1 – Globalization of Education
- My daughter brought this picture home of a beach. There was…
- News in the EA space
- News in the EA space
- What Do Business Architects Do?
- Enterprise Architecture politics and their roots
- An Actionable Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture
- The Increasing Importance of Cybersecurity: The Open Group Conference in Washington, D.C.
- Link Collection — July 1, 2012
- Challenges for Higher Education CIOs
- July 2012 Events
- Where were the architects at RBS?
- Something to think about
- Data Gravity as Cloud Consideration – Input Output
- Enterprise-architecture and financial-services
- Five gamification ideas to better engage your audience
- Five gamification ideas to better engage your audience
- SMAC: Hype or Reality?
- An awesome quote and a book tip
- 7 ways a Platform can fuel the App Economy
- Time to Rain on the “Cloud Service Model” Parade
- Business Architecture is Business Performance Management with Engineering Rigor
- Why the Yammer Acquisition Means Almost Nothing to Your Enterprise
- Adapting to an eBook World
- RBS Crash – Management Prefer Offshoring to Modernization!
- IRM EA/BPM Conference Delivers
- RBS Crash – Management Prefer Offshoring to Modernization?
- Raising the Stakes: The Open Group Conference Photo Contest
- How not to do social-business
- At Social Business Summit
- ArchiMate core – Viewpoints
- EA Glossary: The App
- Conversational Antipatterns on Message Boards
- Learn How Enterprise Architects Can Better Relate TOGAF and DoDAF to Bring Best IT Practices to Defense Contracts
- Even EA’s Have Bad Days – it’s Time to Reset
- Even EA’s Have Bad Days – it’s Time to Reset
- EA inhibitors, politics and remedies
- Visual Architecting
- Cybersecurity Threats Key Theme at Washington, D.C. Conference – July 16-20, 2012
- What impacts should Enterprise Architecture have?
- Telltale Signs of Organizations with Strong EA
- Telltale Signs of Organizations with Strong EA
- Where am I and where is this going
- Interoperability and interresponsibility
- The Cloud is in the cloud
- Cloud Strategy Begins with Value and Balances Risk
- Cloud Strategy Begins with Value and Balances Risk
- Using the ‘This’ game in EA modelling
- Six Attributes of a Powerful Business Architecture Practice
- Milkmen, Fathers, Architecure
- Milkmen, Fathers, Architecure
- SAP Systems Architecture
- SAP Systems Architecture
- Agility Starts Above the Clouds
- The Cybernetic View
- The Cybernetic View
- Link Collection — June 17, 2012
- Revolutionising Education: One Video at a Time
- Revolutionising Education: One Video at a Time
- Revolutionising Education: One Video at a Time
- Customer-Driven Conversation
- Big Data, ambiguity & the new era of Data R&D – active information
- Whitepaper: Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF 9.1 and ArchiMate 2.0
- On My Move To Consulting Services
- 6 Rules of Thumb for Enterprise Architecting
- 6 Rules of Thumb for Enterprise Architecting
- 6 Rules of Thumb for Enterprise Architecting
- The art of Enterprise Architecture politics, i
- Critique of the Enterprise Architecture state
- Cloud Computing and Security: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
- RECAP: The Open Group Brazil Conference – May 24, 2012
- How to avoid common mistakes with your EA program – Part I
- How to avoid common mistakes with your EA program – Part I
- Critique of the Enterprise Architecture state
- I don’t know
- I had a conversation with a colleague the other day about change…
- Business Models – Aligning Business Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
- What Business Architecture Isn’t
- ArchiMate core – Tailoring ArchiMate (5/7)
- Experience Mapping vs Heavy BRUF
- Link Collection — June 10, 2012
- In stream and out of band
- In stream and out of band
- In stream and out of band
- CAP Theorem, partitions, ambiguity, data trust
- Six Views of Business Architecture
- CAP Theorem, partitions, ambiguity, data trust
- CAP Theorem, partitions, ambiguity, data trust
- Six Views of Business Architecture
- Being Human: Why Knowledge Workers Need Adaptive Case Management
- Inside-in, inside-out, outside-in, outside-out
- Corporate Data, Supply Chains Remain Vulnerable to Cyber Crime Attacks, Says Open Group Conference Speaker
- Not All Innovation Is BIG Innovation
- Business Process Management: practical tips for a successful approach (2/2)
- Why Fixing Cars is Not Fun
- Why Fixing Cars is Not Fun
- Link Collection — June 3, 2012
- Requisite-variety and stormy weather
- Technorati relevancy
- The Application Architecture Domain
- The Application Architecture Domain
- Design Thinking and EA: I ‘Heart’ Managers
- ArchiMate core – Extension (4/7)
- Assets and services
- On ‘stupid’ organisations
- Augmented Reality — Active Information
- Who should ‘own’ the Enterprise Architecture?
- Who should ‘own’ the Enterprise Architecture?
- FACE Consortium to Host Exposition Day on June 5
- Architecture of my life: continued
- Architecture of my life: continued
- Architecture of my life: continued
- New Open Group Survey Aims to Understand Cloud Computing ROI and Business Drivers
- Roadmap for Digital Government: Information Centricity — Active Information
- That volcano’s gettin’ kinda busy…
- You Call That Innovating?
- Three Schools of Thought for Enterprise Architecture
- The safety-guys would have kittens (or goats)
- Measure What Really Matters
- Measure What Really Matters
- Measure What Really Matters
- Organizational Intelligence in the Roman Catholic Church II
- Conceptual Architecture: How
- Organizational Intelligence in the Roman Catholic Church II
- Political parties and organizational intelligence
- Political parties and organizational intelligence
- Architecture and a Boy Named Sue
- Architecture and a Boy Named Sue
- 4 Easy Ways to Kill Innovation
- The Next Big Leap: Everything is a Business Service
- Complexity of Social Computing – Is it a Consideration for EA’s?
- Complexity of Social Computing – Is it a Consideration for EA’s?
- The Next Big Leap: Everything is a Business Service
- Penn State University Center for EA and FEAPO Presentation Available
- Penn State University Center for EA and FEAPO Presentation Available
- EA Heuristic #6: Examine if the metrics are frequent and granular enough to be actionable
- A nice not-quite-scam?
- EA Heuristic #6: Examine if the metrics are frequent and granular enough to be actionable
- EA Heuristic #6: Examine if the metrics are frequent and granular enough to be actionable
- Conceptual Architecture: Why
- Business Architecture Vs. Goals and Strategy: What the Difference Means To You
- Business Architecture Vs. Goals and Strategy: What the Difference Means To You
- Must-See Guide to Gartner EA
- Conceptual Architecture: What
- Modelling mixed-value in Enterprise Canvas
- Open CA Candidate Profile: An Interview with Andrey Zaychikov
- EA Heuristic #5: Address the concern of “you are echoing back what I told you”
- EA Heuristic #5: Address the concern of “you are echoing back what I told you”
- EA Heuristic #5: Address the concern of “you are echoing back what I told you”
- Business Process Management: practical tips for a successful approach (1/2)
- Business Process Management: practical tips for a successful approach
- Shhh…. I’m talking, listen to me!
- Setting Up A New EA or BA Practice
- Enabling Better Communications with Physical EA Models
- Enabling Better Communications with Physical EA Models
- Enabling Better Communications with Physical EA Models
- Deliberate Practice and the Art of Enterprise Architecture.
- Deliberate Practice and the Art of Enterprise Architecture.
- Announcing: Third Annual Enterprise Summer School
- Gartner et al. – gettin’ there on EA
- UNIX® is Still as Relevant as Ever
- Mobileize Your Business Process Applications
- Mending your Lending
- Gartner BPM: A view from a Sales Engineer
- Watching Hofstadter’s Ants
- Three Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started My Career
- WANTED: Experienced Business Architects
- AGILE & CMM : The Marilyn Monroe Connection (Part 3) : Some Like it Hot!
- The importance of context
- Law is the requirements specification for the system of being a resident
- The importance of context
- The importance of context
- Law is the requirements specification for the system of being a resident
- Law is the requirements specification for the system of being a resident
- ArchiMate core – Concepts (3/7)
- EA Heuristic #4: Collect and analyze data with reusability in mind
- EA Heuristic #4: Collect and analyze data with reusability in mind
- EA Heuristic #4: Collect and analyze data with reusability in mind
- Wicked Problems
- Out-of-Box Requires Lesser Mind
- BPM Process Accelerator Packs
- African Sun Shines on the New Silos
- African Sun Shines on the New Silos
- Link Collection — May 13, 2012
- IT mega-trends for Enterprise and Consumers
- IT mega-trends for Enterprise and Consumers
- IT mega-trends for Enterprise and Consumers
- The Open Group Cannes blog series (6/6)
- Understanding Which Investments Should go to the Cloud
- BYOD and Your CEO
- Understanding Which Investments Should go to the Cloud
- Leadership and Organizational Intelligence
- Leadership and Organizational Intelligence
- A rant against 1:1
- business-first technology leadership wins
- Dangling Conversation
- A rant against 1:1
- A rant against 1:1
- Dangling Conversation
- Big data fetishes: social and mobile – Active Information
- Does everyone (except Google) have a platform strategy?
- Does everyone (except Google) have a platform strategy?
- EA Heuristic #3: Talk to more blind men to know the elephant
- EA Heuristic #3: Talk to more blind men to know the elephant
- EA Heuristic #3: Talk to more blind men to know the elephant
- The Open Group Cannes blog series (5/6)
- Just Enough Detail
- EA Certifications Distilled
- Essential Enterprise Architecture governance
- OrgIntelligence in Iran
- OrgIntelligence in Iran
- The Right Way to Transform to the World of Cloud Computing
- The Open Group Cannes blog series (4/6)
- Karl Albrecht on Organizational Intelligence
- Karl Albrecht on Organizational Intelligence
- Modernizing Enterprise Architecture: Address The Neurosis of IT
- Modernizing Enterprise Architecture: Address The Neurosis of IT
- Modernizing Enterprise Architecture: Address The Neurosis of IT
- On enterprise blueprinting — entrenchment
- Entrenchment: What we have is a thinking problem
- The Open Group Cannes blog series (3/6)
- On love and fear in business
- On the road to a Business Architecture Manifesto
- EA Heuristic #2: Guess, Validate, Iterate: Time-bound architectural efforts
- So what do you do? (tick, tick, tick…)
- EA Heuristic #2: Guess, Validate, Iterate: Time-bound architectural efforts
- EA Heuristic #2: Guess, Validate, Iterate: Time-bound architectural efforts
- So what do you do? (tick, tick, tick…)
- Link Collection — May 6, 2012
- Management Architects and Enterprise Architecture
- Daoism and Rocket Science
- Daoism and Rocket Science
- Remembering the French Riviera through The Open Group Photo Contest
- Questions on OrgIntelligence
- Questions on OrgIntelligence
- The Open Group Cannes blog series (2/6)
- Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled Presentation Available
- Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled Presentation Available
- Is Social Media Leadership Critical for a CIO?
- 12 Questions to help you recruit an Enterprise Architect
- Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture Published
- The Open Group Cannes blog series (1/6)
- Video Highlights of Day 2 at the Cannes Conference
- On evaluating the communications capability
- AGILE & CMM : The Marilyn Monroe Connection (Part 2) : Something’s Got To Give
- ArchiMate core – Framework (2/7)
- Thank you Jeanne Ross
- And the Winner Is… A Full List of Winners of The Open Cannes Awards
- What Makes a Platform Open or Closed?
- What Makes a Platform Open or Closed?
- CIO Priorities for the Next 3 Years
- CIO Priorities for the Next 3 Years
- The Secret to Better Decision-Making: How Enterprise Portfolio Management adds value to your organization.
- The Secret to Better Decision-Making: How Enterprise Portfolio Management adds value to your organization.
- Business as a Platform – Amazon
- Business as a Platform – Amazon
- There’s no short-cut to experience
- Zachman International® Closes Acquisition of the FEAC® Institute
- Zachman International® Closes Acquisition of the FEAC® Institute
- Link Collection — April 29, 2012
- Event Distribution and Event Processing
- Event Distribution and Event Processing
- Is the EA the DJ?
- Twin-Track Architecture
- Twin-Track Architecture
- Dear Data entrepreneurs, I’ll choose my own movie. Go study cancer. — Active Information
- It’s not a cycle
- Cannes Conference Day 2: Proactively Engaging in the Transformation Process Paramount for Enterprise Architects
- Who's Afraid of a Few Big Companies Taking Over the World?
- Who’s Afraid of a Few Big Companies Taking Over the World?
- Who’s Afraid of a Few Big Companies Taking Over the World?
- EA Heuristics #1: Looking for gaps? Push from top, guide from bottom.
- The Value of Visualization
- EA Heuristics #1: Looking for gaps? Push from top, guide from bottom.
- EA Heuristics #1: Looking for gaps? Push from top, guide from bottom.
- 12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting
- 12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting
- 12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting
- AGILE & CMM : The Marilyn Monroe Connection (Part 1) : The Misfits
- Forrester: Forcing A New Role For CIOs & Dragging IT Out Of The Backrooms
- Cannes Conference Day 1: Communication Key for Business Transformation, According to Open Group Speakers
- High-Velocity BPM Comes to the Cloud
- Enterprise Transformation and Open Group
- Human Dynamics in Enterprise Architecture: BiZZdesign’s Top Tips for establishing a Value-Driven & Influential Enterprise Architecture Practice (3/3)
- Architecture of my life
- Architecture of my life
- Architecture of my life
- Link Collection — April 22, 2012
- Journal of Enterprise Architecture May 2012 and Onwards
- The Technology Strategy
- What platforms has social media created for us, and how should we use them?
- What platforms has social media created for us, and how should we use them?
- What platforms has social media created for us, and how should we use them?
- Humans Just Don't Do That Very Well
- Humans Just Don’t Do That Very Well
- Social Media Guidelines – part 3
- OTTF – Providing a Level of “Surety”
- Social Media Guidelines – part 2
- Process Architecture and Information Architecture – The Missing Link
- Is Cloud Computing a “Buyers’ Market?”
- Tweet Jam Summary: Identity Management #ogChat
- The Science of Retail
- The Science of Retail
- Social Media Guidelines – part 1
- Reinvention Week, Prussian Officers and Smart & Lazy talent
- Requirements, Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
- What kind of CIOs will transform businesses?
- What kind of CIOs will transform businesses?
- Should We Kill The Architecture Review Board?
- Thinking Differently…. By Design
- Two Dimensions of Trust
- Sharing Trust
- Two Dimensions of Trust
- Sharing Trust
- CIOs Continue Being Held in Low Esteem – The CIO Report – WSJ
- Looking back on the first year of my EA role at Bristol
- Looking back on the first year of my EA role at Bristol
- ArchiMate core – Overview (1/7)
- ArchiMate – Overview (1/7)
- iTV: will it change the way we collaborate?
- iTV: will it change the way we collaborate?
- It’s a small world after all.
- A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words…
- Netflix to Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
- Adjyle Online Marketing and Promotion
- Adjyle Online Marketing and Promotion
- Adjyle Online Marketing and Promotion
- Must-See Guide to #GartnerBPM!
- Connection is what matters
- Link Collection — April 15, 2012
- Deploying VisualWorks Applications
- 18 lessons learned during the 6 year roller-coaster ride called Mendix
- 18 lessons learned during the 6 year roller-coaster ride called Mendix
- Our Students: Products or Customers?
- Podcasts with the Canadian Information Processing Society
- Enterprise Architecture Change is Coming. Are You Ready?
- Developing data literacy: Informed Skeptics & Big Judgment — Active Information
- Social Collaboration vs. Quiet Contemplation
- Gamification: Digging past the marketing hype
- Gamification: Digging past the marketing hype
- Open Group Webcast – Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled
- Open Group Webcast – Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled
- Connect with @theopengroup on April 17 for an Identity Management Tweet Jam #ogChat
- British Computer Society to recognize The Open Group certifications towards CITP status
- British Computer Society to recognize The Open Group certifications towards CITP status
- Data-driven decision-making, not just for the business
- Does Organizational Cognition Make Sense?
- Does Organizational Cognition Make Sense?
- The Open Group Brings the Cloud to Cannes (Well, Let’s Hope That’s Only Metaphorically the Case)
- What is IT Governance?
- Implementing an Enterprise Architecture function in different organisations: Governmental organisations (4/5)
- Why We Can’t Agree on What We Mean by “Enterprise Architecture” and Why That’s OK, At Least for Now
- Is this Architecture?
- The Art & Beauty of Data Visualization
- Employers ask for Facebook passwords but not social skills
- An Enterprise Architecture framework, FFLV-GODS
- Analysis, Synthesis, and Scope: Business Architecture vs. Business Analysis, part two
- Where are the good Enterprise Architects?
- Where are the good Enterprise Architects?
- Design Thinking
- From Design Thinking to Creative Intelligence
- From Design Thinking to Creative Intelligence
- Apple, Android & Windows: Who will dominate in 2015?
- Apple, Android & Windows: Who will dominate in 2015?
- The difference between business architect and business analyst
- A Framework for Evaluating the Modern CIO – The CIO Report – WSJ
- Intelligent Business Operations
- Intelligent Business Operations
- Standardization is a 15 Letter Word
- Its Not What You Sell, Its What You Believe – Bill Taylor – Harvard Business Review
- Standardization is a 15 Letter Word
- IT job postings ask for the wrong thing
- Susan Cain: The power of introverts | Video on TED.com
- Predictions: Enterprise Architecture in 2020
- Predictions: Enterprise Architecture in 2020
- Building the Enterprise Architecture Habit
- Building the Enterprise Architecture Habit
- The Monday Report Builds Understanding and Collaboration
- 8 Rules for Big Data – Active Information
- This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business | Fast Company
- Whiteboard Culture: An Organizational Competitive Advantage?
- Enterprise OODA
- Enterprise OODA
- Architecture standards: Wrap-up and summary (7/7)
- An architecture of enterprise-culture
- EA Forum Report
- EA Forum Report
- Under-powered EA Efforts
- Under-powered EA Efforts
- Link Collection — April 1, 2012
- Top 10 Tips for Data Warehouse Developers
- Unfounded Reasons People Tell Me Why They Can’t Do Enterprise Architecture
- Does Your Enterprise Culture Foster Innovation?
- Organizational Intelligence eBook
- Architecture-Led Procurement
- Organizational Intelligence eBook
- Architecture-Led Procurement
- Scaling Agile Beyond the Team
- Measuring Benefits of Enterprise Architecture
- Measuring Benefits of Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Transformation Takes the French Riviera
- The Open Group Testifies before Congress on the Supply Chain Landscape
- End of "High Street Retail" As We Know It…..
- End of "High Street Retail" As We Know It…..
- End of "High Street Retail" As We Know It…..
- Penn State Professional Masters Program for Enterprise Architecture Approved by Trustees
- Penn State Professional Masters Program for Enterprise Architecture Approved by Trustees
- Human Dynamics in Enterprise Architecture: Effectively Communicating & Selling the EA Initiative – Outline the Strategic Value! (2/3)
- Enterprise Transformation, Innovation, Emergence and the Sewers of Vienna
- Five Hurdles in Implementing EA
- Five Hurdles in Implementing EA
- Once more, from the top…?
- Work IT smart, not hard!
- The essential problem with enterprise architecture
- Work IT smart, not hard!
- How Do You Screw Up a Two-Button Machine?
- Seven SmartIT Initiatives : CIO Knows Best
- How Do You Screw Up a Two-Button Machine?
- Don’t start with How
- The Future of Money
- The SOA RA Provides a Way to Assess or Design your SOA
- The Evolution of Todays CIO
- Speaking at the Troux EA Conference
- Enterprise Architecture, the anatomy and physiology of the Enterprise
- Welcome to my Blog!
- Using System Architect to Scare Sales People
- Building a BYOD Ready Infrastructure
- Part 3 of 3: Building an Enterprise Architecture Value Proposition Using TOGAF® 9.1. and ArchiMate® 2.0
- No pain no gain
- Discipline Is Not a Curse
- Discipline Is Not a Curse
- Discipline Is Not a Curse
- Discipline Is Not a Curse
- Architecture standards: governance (6/7)
- 10 Unexpected Reasons Why Your Business Needs the Capability to Adapt
- The Tipping Point to Mobile
- Are You Ready for April 1?
- Are You Ready for April 1?
- Link Collection — March 18, 2012
- Idempotence and the Dead-Letter Office
- Architecture Capabilities through Business Models
- The Identity Crisis of Enterprise Architecture – Top Three Misconceptions
- Why you will fail using Archimate and most other frameworks
- Expanding the Envelope of BPM
- Part 2 of 3: Building an Enterprise Architecture Value Proposition Using TOGAF® 9.1. and ArchiMate® 2.0
- Perspective in Depth
- Perspective in Depth
- Part 1 of 3: Building an Enterprise Architecture Value Proposition Using TOGAF® 9.1. and ArchiMate® 2.0
- Publishing Tetradian e-books via Leanpub
- Implementing an Enterprise Architecture function in different organisations: Small local organizations (3/5)
- New book ‘The enterprise as story’ is published
- Presentation ‘The enterprise is the story’ now online
- Structure Follows Strategy?
- Structure Follows Strategy?
- The Monday Morning Challenge of Smart IT
- OTTF Releases Snapshot of Developing Standard
- Is programming languages knowledge necessary for an EA architect?
- Time-to-Release – the missing System Quality Attribute
- How the CIO Can Establish a BYOD Usage Policy
- Pragmatism as a Clincher
- Digital Razorblades: CIO Insight from App Stores
- The Fun-damental Laws of Enterprise Architecture
- How Enterprise Architects can cope with Opportunistic Failure
- Seven Challenges of Outsourcing Governance
- Architecture standards: Life cycle (5/7)
- A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships
- Link Collection — March 4, 2012
- Saturday Sages on Twitter – who do you learn from?
- The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does
- Frameworks and skills
- Frameworks and skills
- Enterprise Architecture Events March 2012
- Enterprise POSIWID
- Enterprise Architecture Events March 2012
- Enterprise POSIWID
- When Was Your Last Enterprise Architecture Maturity Assessment
- Does Architecture Put the No in Innovation?
- Does Architecture Put the No in Innovation?
- What is Enterprise Architecture? – A presentation review of Erik Dörnenburg
- The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III
- We Need More Demos
- Does This Make My Process Look Fat?
- Building an Enterprise Architecture value proposition using TOGAF® 9.1. and ArchiMate 2.0
- Task Switching Costs
- Did someone say “synergy”….
- Cloud and IT Organizational Change
- How Strategic is IT? – Assessing Strategic Value
- On Archimate 2.0
- 3 CIO Questions from TED 2012
- Trust Agents – Book Review
- What is Enterprise Architecture: Reduce Growth Pangs with EA
- 20 Key Concepts Every Enterprise Architects Should Know
- Business Models: Do the right thing
- Cloud Standards, Brokerage, and The French Laundry
- Link Collection — February 26, 2012
- Starting a Ph.D. on Enterprise Architecture
- Journal of Enterprise Architecture, February 2012
- How to Make Work Take Off?
- I have no idea what you want!
- Government as a Catalyst: Prizes for Tech Innovation
- Government as a Catalyst: Prizes for Tech Innovation
- Active Info: Data Dirt & Business Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Transformation: Related But Distinct Concepts That Can Change the World
- Social Collaboration: Four Steps to Success
- ArchiMate 2 Tool Certification Available
- The Enterprise Architect’s key traits from a recruitment perspective
- Don’t buy flowers from ReadyFlowers
- Don’t buy flowers from ReadyFlowers
- Exposing the value of BPM
- Link Collection — February 19, 2012
- The Evolution of the Modern Enterprise Architect
- Evolution of a career …
- Evolution of a career …
- The Evolution of the Modern Enterprise Architect
- BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
- BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
- The Evolution of the Modern Enterprise Architect
- Enterprise Architecture: Bringing Policy into the realms of Reality
- Enterprise Architecture: Bringing Policy into the realms of Reality
- Location, Location, Location
- Active Info: Data Scientists vs. Business Intelligence Pros; Predicting Linsanity
- Location, Location, Location
- How Adaptive Case Management Builds Business Agility
- Practice Perfect Driving
- Practice Perfect Driving
- Mobilization: The Missing Link between Strategy and Execution
- Making Sense of the Enterprise Continuum, Part I
- Business Model and Business Architecture: Synonymous or Dissimilar?
- Do I need to worry about Enterprise Architecture?
- Cambrian Explosion – Generative Transformation – Emergent Architecture – Driven by – Intelligent Design
- Using “back of the napkin” with TOGAF and ArchiMate
- The Enterprise Architecture definition in Wikipedia (iii)
- 2 Enterprise Architecture Jokes
- 2 Enterprise Architecture Jokes
- 2 Enterprise Architecture Jokes
- Talking to customers of Enterprise Architecture services
- Talking to customers of Enterprise Architecture services
- Talking to customers of Enterprise Architecture services
- Talking to customers of Enterprise Architecture services
- Architecture and Change
- Rethinking the Enterprise "Mess" Using a System Thinking Approach
- Inversion of Control
- Rethinking the Enterprise “Mess” Using a System Thinking Approach
- MSBI–Part 2—What is a core diagram?
- Gamification is Central to Social
- Rethinking the Enterprise “Mess” Using a System Thinking Approach
- Pats SOA Governance Perscription
- New Papers from the OEA Practice
- Human dynamics in Enterprise Architecture: The key to effective Enterprise Architecture: Relationships! (1/3)
- Sins of the Project Manager
- Sins of the Project Manager
- Link Collection — February 12, 2012
- How organizations filter out change agents in their hiring process
- Talks on Enterprise Architecture February 2012
- Enterprise Architecture entry in Wikipedia (ii)
- Talks on Enterprise Architecture February 2012
- A Mild Mannered Architect's Advice on Policy
- Top 5 Tell-tale Signs of SOA Evolving to the Cloud
- Open Group Security Gurus Dissect the Cloud: Higher of Lower Risk
- Reach for the Maturity Model NOT the Sky!
- Reach for the Maturity Model NOT the Sky!
- 5 Real Innovation Opportunities in 2012
- Enterprise Architecture as an internal consultancy practice
- Enterprise Architecture as an internal consultancy practice
- Must-See Live Webinars for February
- Its not about Complexity its about Simplicity
- What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs?
- Organizing Business Capabilities
- Organizing Business Capabilities
- Architecture standards: Embedding (4/7)
- Could Anyone Else Use an Extra $600,000?
- San Francisco Conference Observations: Enterprise Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, SOA and a Splash of Cloud Computing
- Recap: Penn State Enterprise Architecture Education Research Initiative
- Enterprise Architecture Lecture Series
- The Enterprise Architecture entry in Wikipedia (i)
- Link Collection — February 5, 2012
- ArchiMate 2.0 Highlights
- ArchiMate 2.0 Certification Released
- Under the pavement
- Under the pavement
- Data-architecture 101 and the naming-problem
- Competence, non-competence and incompetence
- Configuring the EA approach
- IT-centrism, business-centrism and business-architecture
- Active Info: Software Architect lessons, Data-driven problem solving
- Gaming the Hire Process
- Modelworld – Free Online modelling Tool
- Gaming the Hire Process
- Modelworld – Free Online modelling Tool
- 5 Tips Enterprise Architects Can Learn from the Winchester Mystery House
- Open Group Conference PresentationWhy EAs Must Drive Cloud Strategy and Planning
- Setting Expectations and Working within Existing Structures the Dominate Themes for Day 3 of San Francisco Conference
- Archi – Archimate Enterprise Architecture Modelling Tool
- San Francisco Conference Day 2 – Enterprise Transformation: The New Role of Open Standards
- Web Manager University #Fedtweets Ditches Slide Deck, Gets Real with Engagement
- Archi – Archimate Enterprise Architecture Modelling Tool
- Private Zachman Certified and FEAC Certified only Community Webinar
- Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 3)
- Davos 2012 Highlights
- Davos 2012 Highlights
- Davos 2012 Highlights
- Zachman International Training Dates
- Zachman International™ Training Dates
- Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 2)
- ArchiMate® 2.0: The Future of Enterprise Architecture Modeling has arrived!
- Creating a Core Diagram for Agile Business
- Cloud Interoperability and Portability Project Findings to be Showcased in San Francisco
- The Open Group Releases ArchiMate 2.0
- BP Business Architecture Session Recap
- 2012 San Francisco Photo Contest
- The Open Group San Francisco Conference: Day 1 Highlights
- Open Group San Francisco (2012) – Day 1
- 7 Digital Strategies of Top-Performing Companies
- Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 1)
- Open Group San Francisco (2012) – Day 1
- What’s New in ArchiMate 2.0?
- Updated SOA and User Interface Services Paper Available Now
- Updated SOA and User Interface Services Paper Available Now
- Updated SOA and User Interface Services Paper Available Now
- Open Group Conference San Francisco Day 1 Keynotes
- FACE Consortium Publishes First Standard for Defense Avionics Systems
- Implementing an Enterprise Architecture function in different organisations: Implementing EA in large multinationals (2/5)
- How IT-centrism creeps into enterprise-architecture
- When Was Your Last Enterprise Architecture Maturity Assessment?
- When Was Your Last Enterprise Architecture Maturity Assessment?
- Social in the Enterprise
- The Architecture Crystal Ball: Predictions for 2012
- Link Collection — January 29, 2012
- Measure Structural Capital to show EA value
- On the misuse of general principles
- On the misuse of general principles
- IT-oriented versus IT-centric
- New Compilation Book and Possible EA Book
- Q&A Series: The Evolution of EA
- OSIMM Goes de Jure: The First International Standards on SOA
- The 10,000 Hour Rule
- The 10,000 Hour Rule
- The Enterprise Architecture is not the sum of the parts but the whole
- Efficiency, effectiveness and co-creativity
- SOCCI: Behind the Scenes
- Q&A Series: The Future of EA and BPA
- First Technical Standard for Cloud Computing – SOCCI
- Architecture standards: Documentation (3/7)
- Keynes Vs. Hayek in Enterprise Architecture
- Keynes Vs. Hayek in Enterprise Architecture
- More on identity and Mask
- Q&A Series: The Value of EA and BPA
- Double Nature of Enterprise Architecture
- Double Nature of Enterprise Architecture
- What's in Your Backpack?
- What’s in Your Backpack?
- Mobile Strategy Update
- Come see me present Why EAs Must Drive Cloud Strategy and Planning at the Open Group Conference
- Enterprise Architecture vs. SOA Architecture Part III
- Identifier, identity, persona and Mask
- 5 Smartphone Usage Trends for 2012 and Beyond
- Active Info: Football and Weekend Data Warriors
- Implementing an Enterprise Architecture function in different organisations: Differentiate in organisations (1/5)
- Enterprise Architecture vs. SOA Architecture Part III
- Enterprise Architects and Paradigm Shifts
- Building the Business Case For EA
- How EA has become a key to Business Agility at Dell
- Results-Driven Business Architecture
- Journey to the Business Side of Enterprise Architecture at USAA
- EA & CIOs: State of the Union
- Webinar: What EA Winners & Losers Have Taught Me
- Driving Business Value at Discover Financial
- Building the Business Case For EA
- How EA has become a key to Business Agility at Dell
- Results-Driven Business Architecture
- Journey to the Business Side of Enterprise Architecture at USAA
- EA & CIOs: State of the Union
- Webinar: What EA Winners & Losers Have Taught Me
- Driving Business Value at Discover Financial
- Capgemini’s CTO on How Cloud Computing Exposes the Duality Between IT and Business Transformation
- Open Group Publishes its First Cloud and International SOA Standards
- Iron Architect
- Stand Up Against SOPA!
- Stand Up Against SOPA!
- Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education – Yes!
- Using recursion in sensemaking
- More on principles and decision-time
- Do you address the complaint, address the root cause, or both?
- How useful are principles in enterprise-architecture?
- The CIO Through the Eyes of the CFO
- Active Info: If only there were an algorithm for that…
- A Lesson about Architecture From a Plumber
- A Lesson about Architecture From a Plumber
- Big Data is conundrum unless Knowledge Management adds Semantics
- Understanding Agility the Hard Way!
- Understanding Agility the Hard Way!
- Business Analytics Anyone?
- MIT’s Ross on How Enterprise Architecture and IT More Than Ever Lead to Business Transformation
- The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
- The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
- A Modern Update to The Blind Men and The Elephant
- Clouds, Services, and the Path of Least Resistance
- Decision-making – linking intent and action [4]
- Communication Architecture
- Communication Architecture
- Communication Architecture
- The purpose of Enterprise Architecture
- SF Conference to Explore Architecture Trends
- Architecture standards: Terminology (2/7)
- From Chaos to Harmony: Putting Your IT Portfolios to Work
- From Chaos to Harmony: Putting Your IT Portfolios to Work
- Enterprise Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture Paper Available
- Enterprise Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture Paper Available
- Enterprise Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture Paper Available
- Decision-making – linking intent and action [3]
- Link Collection — January 8, 2012
- Decision-making – linking intent and action [2]
- You already use Stage Gates
- You already use Stage Gates
- Teaching Enterprise Architecture
- Teaching Enterprise Architecture
- Impacting Business with Enterprise Architecture: What the Future Holds for EA Efforts
- Unruly Google and VPEC-T
- Unruly Google and VPEC-T
- Security and Cloud Computing Themes to be explored at The Open Group San Francisco Conference
- Overlapping Criminal and State Threats Pose Growing Cyber Security Threat to Global Internet Commerce, Says Open Group Speaker
- Outside-In IT: A Preview of PwC’s Digital IQ Results
- Active Information: Streaming through Computational World, Changing change via experimentation platforms
- Wikipedia’s EA article, second pass
- Human vs. Machine: How Adaptive Case Management Helps Insurance Firms Serve Customers
- Carpe Nube*
- Failures in Communication – Don’t Tell Me! Engage Me!
- Cycles within cycles
- New: Links to My Papers
- New: Links to My Papers
- New: Links to My Papers
- Carpe Nube*
- Plenitudinal Musings
- When the Ground Rocks, IT Must Flex
- Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure
- Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure
- Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure
- Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure