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- Business-models between for-profit and not-for-profit
- CRUD, CRUDE and other action-acronyms
- TOGAF Poster 18 – Deliverables, Artifacts and Building Blocks
- Avoiding delusions of strategy
- Strategy Leadership and the Soul – Jennifer Sertl
- #INFOARCH – INFORMATION OWNERSHIP
- Getting beyond ‘Just Do It’
- The Weekly Review – How to maintain “Mind Like Water”
- What EA means and the governing role of the enterprise architect
- Fail Fast and Fail Often
- Fail Fast and Fail Often
- Foundations of book #2
- ‘Tis the Season
- GTD – Coaching questions
- Integrated Information Infrastructure – Reference Model – Free Poster
- Why strategy fails (part one)
- Link: Control Is for Beginners – Deborah Mills-Scofield – Harvard Business Review
- 11 Rules for Critical Thinking via Brain Pickings
- The Most Important EA Deliverable
- The Enterprise Architecture turns the enterprise management into a science
- Merry Christmas
- Merry Christmas
- ArchiMate® 2 Certification reaches the 1000th certification milestone
- Link: Elon Musk’s Secret Weapon: A Beginner’s Guide to First Principles – Microlancer Blog
- Link: Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: The Dark Side of Technology
- Tapping into the Maker Movement
- ABM Case Study – Change Management Approach
- Putting capabilities to use
- How do you learn about business architecture?
- LEGO, an Enterprise Architecture Perspective
- Documenting Design Decisions
- Culture as chaotic adaptive system?
- The importance of ‘also’
- KryptoKit Lets You Pay In Bitcoin Instantly On Almost Any Webpage
- You Cannot Move Too Fast
- You Cannot Move Too Fast
- The Capabilities of the Enterprise
- Definitions on capability
- The EA Body of Voices
- Podcasts and videocasts – any requests?
- The as-a-Service model and Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture deserves layers
- Is Enterprise Architecture a story?
- ABM Case Study – Strategy Approach Update
- Enterprise Architecture as Story
- Starting-friction
- On layers in enterprise-architecture
- ABM Case Study Enterprise Architecture Stream
- Q&A: Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®
- Strategy and Execution Belong Together
- Architecture Frameworks – too complex and multi-dimensional?
- TOGAF Poster 17 – The Architecture Repository
- Measuring the Immeasurable: You Have More Data Than You Think You Do
- Stealth Enterprise Architecture!
- Stealth Enterprise Architecture!
- ABM Case Study Situational Analysis Update
- Planting trees
- One year with #TheArtOfEnterpriseArchitecture
- Technical Debt – What it is and what to do about it
- The Inversion of Big Data
- TOGAF ADM as a coaching compass
- Anthropomorphise your applications?
- Businesses Banking on Breakthrough Innovation
- Why settle for anything less than the truth?
- The Business Capability Manager
- Problem-space, solution-space and SCAN
- Prose: Great for Novels, Lousy for Solution Design
- Systems Failure at RBS – Again
- Systems Failure at RBS – Again
- 3 Steps to Being A Decision-Making Ninja
- Can complex-systems be ‘architected’?
- A kind of manifesto (short version)
- A kind of manifesto
- ArchiMate® 2.1 Specification Maintenance Release
- Capabilities, Value Streams, Processes… should they all be employed to model the Enterprise (i)
- Lean & Enterprise Architecture: The seven deadly wastes of Enterprise Architects
- EA Worst Practice Alert – "I do not need to make any special effort to communicate my value, my work speaks for itself!"
- EA Worst Practice Alert – "I do not need to make any special effort to communicate my value, my work speaks for itself!"
- Open Platform 3.0™ to Help Rally Organizations in Innovation and Development
- Zachman Ontology, not Framework?
- An Enterprise Architect shows stakeholders how to fish rather than handing them over fish
- If it’s not AE, it’s not EA
- In case you were wondering…
- Understanding the Management Context
- Thanksgiving
- Crystal Ball Time
- ERP implementation: high level process identification and scoping
- Stop talking about enterprise architecture. Go solve a problem.
- Link: CEOs look toward disruptive technology more than CMOs & CIOs
- Link: Steve Jones: Single Canonical Fail
- Link: This Slide Shows Why HealthCare.gov Wouldn’t Work At Launch : All Tech Considered : NPR
- Link: How To Make Meaningful Estimates For Software Products | Wait, I Know This One
- Lean & Enterprise Architecture: Seven deadly wastes in Enterprise Architectures
- 5 Capability Model – Governance by Design
- Leveraging Enterprise Architecture in Enterprise Risk Management
- Change Management – Purpose and Perspectives
- How should the Enterprise Architecture Body of Knowledge be approached?
- The Business Architect’s Skill Set
- my path: towards technology infusion
- The Future of EA
- #SDNC13 – initial thoughts
- past is prologue: fluid enterprise, blended architecture
- Making Enterprise Apps Mindful
- IT Is Complex, Not Unmanageable
- What futurists do, and why
- I’m sorry, but I just can’t afford it
- Wizard, in reverse
- TOGAF ADM should be driven by strategy not requirements
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Impact of Disruptive Forces on Enterprise Architecture
- Resolved?
- Webinar: 10 Sure-Fire Tips for Getting Stakeholder Buy-In to your Architecture Projects
- The TOGAF club should open to the world
- LeanCoach. Measure – Brainstorm
- Evolving Business and Technology Toward an Open Platform 3.0™
- The Architecture Continuum
- Zachman One Day Seminar
- Zachman
- TOGAF needs transparency and a a public roadmap
- Call for Papers: Agile Architecture — Dodo Bird or Differentiator?
- Milestone reached
- Mastering Strategic Planning Through Concepts
- Saving enterprise-architecture from itself – 5: What next?
- Are Service Architects and Designers like Cobbler’s Children?
- Are Service Architects and Designers like Cobbler’s Children?
- Saving enterprise-architecture from itself – 4: Responsibility
- Mastering Strategic Planning Through Concepts
- Lean & Enterprise Architecture: Opposites Attract
- Your complete approach for EA: method, language, tools
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Personal Context – The ME Factor
- From Chaos to Harmony
- Saving enterprise-architecture from itself – 3: Skills and certification
- Decision Support Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture Governance
- Capabilities, Value Streams, Processes… should they all be employed to model the Enterprise?
- Career Path – Management
- Speaking at The HP Cincinnati Customer Forum
- Three Things We Learned at The Open Group, London
- All I ask is to consider the impossible …
- Saving enterprise-architecture from itself – 2: Personal background
- Collaborative Planning Methodology (CPM)
- Saving enterprise-architecture from itself – 1: Introduction
- LeanCoach Define – Stakeholders analysis
- Building Strategic Process Architecture
- NZ Government Announces Desktop as a Service
- Enterprise Leverage
- Building a Data Management Capability with Enterprise Architecture methods
- Got Culture?
- Innovation Management and Business Transformation
- Quarterly Blog Post (2013 Q4)
- You Don’t Have to Be a Psychic to Read our Mind Map
- Introducing Two New Security Standards for Risk Analysis—Part II – Risk Analysis Standard
- EA: past and future, money and story
- Integrating TOGAF and The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) Service Landscape Whitepaper
- Why not call that which you’ve named the cup’s architecture, the cup’s essence? (Essence: the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.)
- Why not call that which you’ve named the cup’s architecture, the cup’s essence? (Essence: the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.)
- LeanCoach. Define – Projectteam
- And more on EA certification…
- The curse of the Zombie Projects
- Sagey’s Law of Dysfunctional Project Reporting
- The EA Costume – Trick or Treat?
- Beware Architecture Ghosts that go BOO!
- Beware Architecture Ghosts that go BOO!
- Dubai ‘smart city’: are we there yet?
- Introducing Two New Security Standards for Risk Analysis—Part I – Risk Taxonomy Technical Standard 2.0
- Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference London 2013 Highlights
- Architecture levels of abstraction and detail: How to make those work for you
- Understanding Structural Context
- Jericho Forum declares “success” and sunsets
- The stench of systemic decay
- Why do we need EA as the current state of the enterprise
- Enterprise Architecture Standards
- At Open Group London 2013 – and certification again
- Sourcing IT: Cloud Computing Roadblocks
- Hybrid IT or Cloud Initiative – a Perfect Enterprise Architecture Maturation Opportunity
- Hybrid IT or Cloud Initiative – a Perfect Enterprise Architecture Maturation Opportunity
- Secure Integration of Convergent Technologies – a Challenge for Open Platform™
- Diversity Versus Replication of Organizational Processes and Information
- The Open Group London – Day Two Highlights
- Service Factory 2.0
- Service Factory 2.0
- Is there an Enterprise Architect Paradox? Surely is.
- LeanCoach . Define – Problem definition
- What Is the Difference Between Privacy and Security?
- BPM is Bigger and Better this year at Enterprise World
- The Open Group London 2013 – Day One Highlights
- Open FAIR Certification Launched
- Best of Breed or Best of Suite?
- Best of Breed or Best of Suite?
- How is ArchiMate used in practice? A case.
- The Business? No!
- The Business? No!
- The Business
- Big News in Virtual Desktops: VMware Acquires Desktone
- One Consultant Auditing the Work of the Other!
- One Consultant Auditing the Work of the Other!
- Career Paths – Client Services
- Why executive managers don’t have a clue
- Is your Innovation Blossoming?
- ABM Case Study Competition Round 1 Complete
- 2 Imperatives for the Digital CIO
- How knowledge workers are engaging with information
- I don’t draw
- Enterprise Architecture: Reflections on My Journey of Becoming A Systems Thinking Enterprise Architect
- Enterprise Architecture: Reflections on My Journey of Becoming A Systems Thinking Enterprise Architect
- What Does the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2013 mean for EA?
- LeanCoach . Define – Project start
- Enterprise Architecture and Strategy – Calgary EA Forum October 22, 2013
- Five Take-Aways from Gartner Symposium 2013
- Positioning Enterprise Canvas in enterprise-architecture work
- Patterns of intrapreneurs and great enterprise architects
- Tim Westbrock to speak at Building Business Capability Conference November 13, 2013
- Models and reasoning-processes in enterprise-architecture
- On Enterprise Capabilities
- The Purpose of an Enterprise Architecture Framework
- How many Architecture Committees do you Need?
- How many Architecture Committees do you Need?
- Enterprise-architecture – which way forward?
- The science of enterprise-architecture (short version)
- EA Voices 1.1
- How is TOGAF used in practice? A case.
- Introducing the Three Types of Context
- Link: G.E.’s ‘Industrial Internet’ Goes Big – NYTimes.com
- Link: GE’s Radical Software Helps Jet Engines Fix Themselves | Wired Design | Wired.com
- Link: GM Opens the Door to Online New-Car Sales – WSJ.com
- Link: Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing – NYTimes.com
- Link: disrupt thyself
- The science of enterprise-architecture
- The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared
- The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared
- The essential value of EA
- New Brunswick Leverages TOGAF®
- Celebrating the Skeptics: The EA Truth is Out There
- What is ArchiMate? An overview.
- LeanCoach . Introduction and DMAIC
- Don’t Spoil EA with Poor Communication
- The Next Phase of Agile Development
- Gartner’s 2013 Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant
- Mapping vs. Modeling
- You want my what?
- You want my what?
- ERP implementation: a process driven and human oriented approach
- Inspiration As A Strategy
- Engineer strategic planning to align your company. Don’t reverse-engineer another company’s strategic plan.
- Inspiration As A Strategy
- Gordian knot, butterfly effect:Organizations are a study in complexity
- SCAN – some recent notes
- The Open Group TweetJam on Digital-Disruption – by Tom Graves
- Engineer strategic planning to align your company. Don’t reverse-engineer another company’s strategic plan.
- Pay, performance and the NHS
- SOA Knowledge Exchange 2013 – a beacon of light or the blind leading the blind?
- SOA Knowledge Exchange 2013 – a beacon of light or the blind leading the blind?
- Talking Points on Rationale for Vendors Participation in Standards Efforts
- Haiku Review: Sharepoint Governance Manifesto
- It’s National Get Organized Week. How Can You Cut Down on Clutter?
- Open Group TweetJam on digital-disruption
- Does Business Value Require Complexity?
- Crossing The Strategy Chasm
- Book Review: Delivering enterprise architecture with TOGAF and ArchiMate
- Don’t fret being misunderstood, Bezos on change via my Tumblr
- Driving Customer Satisfaction and Improving Employee Productivity at PSCU – Join us at PEX BPM Open House on October 9th!
- Everything I know about Enterprise Architecture I learned from Charlie’s Angels
- Everything I know about Enterprise Architecture I learned from Charlie’s Angels
- SURVEY: Service Specification Usage
- SURVEY: Service Specification Usage
- A Cheesy Invitation
- What makes models interesting
- “Eventually technology just disappears” … via my Tumblr
- What Does Cloud Mean For Your Corporate Network?
- Defining Business Architecture
- Why Good Strategy Goes Bad
- Financial-architecture and enterprise-architecture
- Two recent EA conferences – Unicom and BAEA
- What is TOGAF and why should organizations use it?
- EA Worst Practice Alert – This shiny EA tool is the solution for all my problems!
- EA Worst Practice Alert – This shiny EA tool is the solution for all my problems!
- Why do we need architecture?
- The difference between architecture and design, architect and designer
- New Challenge for IT Outsourcing
- Fine-tuning IT decision making
- Situational Awareness: Making Better Decisions
- Leading Business Disruption Strategy with Enterprise Architecture
- Moving beyond the process of Change
- Mugs Up. A Troux Toast to Coffee
- Cloud and Consumerisation Have Changed the Desktop Forever
- How to Ensure Enterprise Architecture Success
- Agile SOA in the Digital Economy
- Agile SOA in the Digital Economy
- What is Enterprise Architecture and why should organizations use it?
- Update: EA Perspective Paper
- A Reference Architecture for Enterprise Architecture
- Come Join Me and Influence Enterprise Architecture Capabilities and Business Architecture
- The Art of Banking: How Financial Services Approach Great Customer Experiences
- Career Paths – Project Management
- Strategy and Tactics – We need them both
- Survey: Information Security Attacks Up 25%
- IT Technology Trends – a Risky Business?
- Value generation, not technology installation, via my Tumblr
- Haiku Review: Steve Jobs
- Quality or Over Engineering?
- On change, via my Tumblr
- So What Makes You an Architect?
- And the Winner Is…
- And the Winner Is…
- Career Paths – Administration
- Are You Ready for the Convergence of New, Disruptive Technologies?
- The Future of IT Skills?
- The Future of IT Skills?
- Dont Get Caught up in the Architecture Modeling Debate
- Building an Effective Enterprise Architecture Capability
- Haiku review: Just For Fun
- Haiku review: Boo hoo
- Autumn Events 2013
- Autumn Events 2013
- FEAPO Board Updates
- New Book: Beyond Alignment
- On-site meeting of the Penn State IST EA Advisory Group
- Variety – part 2
- Beyond Alignment Book
- Infrastructure architecture: helping other architects
- Haiku Review: Rework
- Webinar: Why Good Strategies Go Bad and what you can do about it
- Redefining traceability in Enterprise Architecture and implementing the concept with TOGAF 9.1 and/or ArchiMate 2.0
- EA architects still discuss what architecture is
- Life = Dojo
- Creative Enterprise Architecture
- Digital Keystone Skills
- Searching For A Better Answer?
- Where do you put the Ugly?
- Where do you put the Ugly?
- Business Architecture 101 – It’s results that count!
- Variety – part 1
- The end of enterprise-architecture?
- Holiday: time to do some in-depth reading
- Holiday: time to do some in-depth reading
- Using CMU/SEI Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) while developing an Architecture Vision
- Using CMU/SEI Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) while developing an Architecture Vision
- Cost, Time, & Architecture – The Zen of Options Analysis
- Haiku Review: The Lean Startup
- Haiku Review: Influence The Psychology of Influence
- Deming’s 14 Points for Management and Team Development
- Context is Everything!
- Anecdotes and government-policy
- Building planes in the sky
- Business analyst? Business Analysis & Design On Steroids!
- Its Been A Busy Summer
- and another, tagged correctly. upon completion, i will use my trail manners and leave no trace via my Tumblr
- Testing IFTTT recipe. (Sorry for the interruption) via my Tumblr
- Ten Ways to Kill An Enterprise Architecture Practice
- Enterprise Architects are more than “problem solvers”
- Abraham Lincoln: American icon, vampire hunter, Enterprise Architect?
- Do Enterprise Architecture Frameworks matter?
- Building a High Performing IT: Atos and Troux
- Future Technologies
- Three Steps to Becoming a Recognized Thought Leader in Your Company
- SOA Knowledge Exchange, 1 day event, Bristol, 27th September 2013
- SOA Knowledge Exchange, 1 day event, Bristol, 27th September 2013
- Haiku Review: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
- TOGAF® 9 Certification Reaches 25,000 Milestone
- Visible Impact: Gaining visibility into Change
- BCP and Disaster Recovery – how much is too much?
- An Ideal Enterprise Architect?
- An Ideal Enterprise Architect?
- Landscaping and Loose Coupling
- Landscaping and Loose Coupling
- Influence vs. Force – Incenting others to get on board with your architecture initiatives
- What should an Enterprise Architecture maturity framework consider?
- Executive Education Partnership with Penn State
- Enabling Organizational Change
- Architecture, structure and story
- Information Right from the Source
- The Reality of Process Excellence
- Variety, Black Swans and Platform 3.0
- Enterprise Portfolio Management: GPS for CIOs
- Multiple Integrated Architecture Frameworks (MIAF)
- What’s the size of an enterprise?
- Shearing Layers – Part 2, Stuff
- Shearing Layers – Part 2, Stuff
- Project Portfolio Management: Why Now?
- Business Model Canvas beyond startups – Part 3: Back-end
- You Can’t Sell Unicorns
- The Irony of Enterprise Architecture
- The Irony of Enterprise Architecture
- What if value is in the noise?
- What if value is in the noise?
- Data management 8: Modeling
- Reuse is the essence of building blocks in Enterprise Architecture
- Reuse is the essence of building blocks in Enterprise Architecture
- Haiku Review: Business Model Generation
- Haiku Review: Simple Architecture for Complex Enterprises
- Haiku Review: Lean Thinking
- Shearing Layers – Part 1 physical buildings
- Shearing Layers – Part 1 physical buildings
- Business Architects: Do Not Start With Strategy
- Haiku Review: ‘Business Reimagined
- Fragility of Markets and Architecture Failure
- Fragility of Markets and Architecture Failure
- Philips Becomes a Platinum Member of The Open Group
- August Meeting for FEAPO Leadership
- The Zachman Framework Requires ZERO Documentation
- Alignment – Mobility
- The Dilemma: Communicating IT Business Value
- Quantitative Semantic Algebra – Dr. Barry Robson (RQSA)
- Dotting the joins (the JEA version)
- Enterprise Architecture: The Real Game Changer.
- Why Do Something Rather Than Nothing?
- Espoused EA and EA-in-use
- Business Models in Business Architecture
- The Business Architect, Business Performance Manager, Business Strategy Manager, Business Planner Job Description
- Michael Margolis on story (and business)
- Three Types of Strategy
- The Business Architect, Business Performance Manager, Business Strategy Manager, Business Planner Job Description
- The Reality of Process Excellence
- Enterprise Architecture as Science?
- Enterprise Architecture as Science?
- The QEXL Approach (Healthcare Biggest Data) – Universal Healthcare Interoperability based on Probabilistic Ontology
- Business Model Canvas beyond startups – Part 2: Front-end
- Core capabilities and how to establish them
- The Value of Deployment Options
- Data Management 7: Business Intelligence
- Building IT Career Paths by Standardizing Competencies
- 8 Steps to Make Strategic Business Decisions
- On dubious definitions
- What is a Digital Disruptor?
- A framework that can illustrate capabilities and business services
- Injecting Some Youth in Aging Applications: Insurance Case Study
- How to build a Roadmap – Publish
- Business services versus capabilities
- My Personal Toolbox
- Shoshin – The Beginner’s Mind and Exercise
- The ‘Bottomless Pit’ of Current State Analysis in Enterprise Architecture!
- The ‘Bottomless Pit’ of Current State Analysis in Enterprise Architecture!
- Intersection and branding
- Database Rationalization: The Amazing Results
- Will Microsoft’s Reorganization Work?
- Will Microsoft’s Reorganization Work?
- Enterprise Architecture relation to Security and the Cloud
- Developing Standards is the Easy Part – Try Managing Exceptions
- Developing Standards is the Easy Part – Try Managing Exceptions
- Will the Real Business Architect Please Stand Up
- The Chicken or the Egg. Process or Capability. Which comes first?
- Looking back on Year 2
- Looking back on Year 2
- The Importance of Enterprise Architecture Principles
- The Importance of Enterprise Architecture Principles
- What does Excellent look like? Improving Performance Appraisals
- Gaining Dependability Across All Business Activities Requires Standard of Standards to Tame Dynamic Complexity, Says The Open Group CEO
- Back To School
- Do stakeholders fear EA taking over? They do.
- Nonstop Growth: ICCM is now OpenText
- Pay an Invoice
- IT Chargeback and Cost Transparency
- How Much of Your App Separates You from the Competition?
- How Much of Your App Separates You from the Competition?
- Top Strategy and Planning Lessons Learned
- EA Survey: Skills for EA Practitioners
- Top Strategy and Planning Lessons Learned
- How to build a Roadmap – Sequence
- Think Different!
- Schism and doubt
- Schism and doubt
- Employees as customers of HR
- What Are Architecture Documents For?
- The Zen of Continuous Diagnostics and Monitoring
- Speaking the Language of Business with TOGAF®
- Data Management 6: Meta Data Management
- The Chief Marketing Technology Officer – CMTO – and the EA
- The Chief Marketing Technology Officer – CMTO – and the EA
- Zachman International® is ONLY at Zachman.com
- Zachman International® is ONLY at Zachman.com
- How do you spell success with EA? It starts with a G and ends with an E…
- A Mild Mannered Architect Changes a Reservation
- 10 reasons why you should organize a FedEx day
- 10 reasons why you should organize a FedEx day
- Mature GRC takes an Enterprise Architecture Approach
- Business Model Innovation webinar
- TOGAF® 9 Certification Growth – Number of Individuals Certified Increases in the Last 12 Months – Now Over 24,000
- The 60/60 Rule of Compromise
- Ten predictions for business architecture, is that right?
- Executive Moves
- Executive Moves
- Technology Governance Scenarios
- Are you "The Department of No"? The struggle between Enablement Vs. Control!
- Are you "The Department of No"? The struggle between Enablement Vs. Control!
- The Big 8 Business Objectives
- The Big 8 Business Objectives
- A critique of the BP Trends’ Business Process Architecture approach #3
- A critique of the BP Trends’ Business Process Architecture approach #2
- Enterprise Architecture driving Private Cloud adoption by U.S. Federal Government
- A critique of the BP Trends’ Business Process Architecture approach #1
- The Open Group Philadelphia – Day Three Highlights
- Organize your Enterprise Architecture Event: Value First!
- The Open Group Philadelphia – Day Two Highlights
- 6 IT Trends & 15 New Habits for CIOs & Their Teams
- 6 IT Trends & 15 New Habits for CIOs & Their Teams
- Harvesting Intellectual Capital.
- For Who The Heck is Enterprise Architecture Not?
- Bringing ‘IT’ All Together
- Why Configuration Management Is Not a Priority
- The Open Group Philadelphia – Day One Highlights
- Devoted to Dawn
- Five not-so-recommendable practices for Business Architects
- What is culture and how does it affect the practice of Enterprise Architecture?
- What is culture and how does it affect the practice of Enterprise Architecture?
- Enterprise Architecture: Unlocking business potential.
- Enterprise Architecture Leaders’ Interview Series – Q&A with Gil Long
- Enterprise Architecture Leaders’ Interview Series – Q&A with Gil Long
- FEAPO Research Update: July 2013
- Five Practices of Successful Business Architects
- The End of Business as Usual by Brian Solis – Review
- The End of Business as Usual by Brian Solis – Review
- Link Collection — July 14, 2013
- How To Measure Anything
- The Open Group Conference to Emphasize Healthcare as Key Sector for Ecosystem-Wide Interactions
- Business Architecture & Enterprise Architecture – Match Made in Heaven
- Business Architecture & Enterprise Architecture – Match Made in Heaven
- Enterprise Architecture and Agile development are not mutually exclusive.
- NASCIO Defines State of Enterprise Architecture at The Open Group Conference in Philadelphia
- Enterprise Architecture: It is not an overhead
- Brilliant new album
- Brilliant new album
- Business Performance Management, Balanced Scorecards and The Decision Model
- Data Management 5: Master Data Management
- Enterprise Architecture for Dummies
- As Platform 3.0 ripens, expect agile access and distribution of actionable intelligence across enterprises, says The Open Group panel
- Enterprise Architecture: Transitioning from Goals to Outcomes and Capabilities to Services
- A Message From The CFO… Help Me Help You!
- The Open Group July Conference Emphasizes Value of Placing Structure and Agility Around Enterprise Risk Reduction Efforts
- Achieving Universal Healthcare Interoperability by Algebra instead of System Integration – Solving Uncertainties in Large Complex System
- How to build a Roadmap – Prioritize (Part II)
- Are You Certifiable?
- The Key to a Successful ITAM Practice
- Capabilities Demystified – Part 4
- Business Model Canvas beyond startups – Part 1
- The 1st Belgian ArchiMate User Group Meeting
- Enterprise Architecture: Differentiating wants and needs.
- Leadership Quotes
- We do what you say we will do – Integrity By Architecture
- Applying the Enterprise Architecture to the task of choosing between options.
- What Has Governance Ever Done for Me?
- Enterprise Architecture: Managing the impact of change.
- Three laws of the next Internet of Things – the new platforming evolution in computing
- Your Company Doesn’t WANT a Business Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture: Balancing simplicity with complexity
- Agile Business Modeling – The Core Heuristic?
- Agile Business Modeling – The Core Heuristic?
- Mom says Save Up; I say do it with Application Rationalization
- EA Myths
- EA Myths
- Dotting the joins
- Enterprise Architecture: Closing the stable door before the horse has bolted.
- Infrastructure Architecture: What does that infrastructure box do?
- How to build a Roadmap – Prioritize (Part I)
- Accelare Announces WhatFirst 2013
- Enterprise Architecture: Steering the business towards success.
- The era of “Internet aware systems and services” – the multiple-data, multi-platform and multi-device and sensors world
- Taking the Risk Out of Decision Making
- James Martin – A personal reflection
- James Martin – A personal reflection
- Demystifying Enterprise Architecture.
- Do Not Underestimate the Emotional Deliverables of Enterprise Architecture!
- Do Not Underestimate the Emotional Deliverables of Enterprise Architecture!
- CEA Credential Renewal Instructions
- CEA Credential Renewal Instructions
- CEA Credential Renewal Instructions
- Enterprise Architecture Lifecycle
- Enterprise Architecture: A definition and implementation checklist.
- My 20-60-20 Rule of Leadership
- How much do you know? Troux or False
- Cloud: The Testing Ground for the New CIO
- EA in nuggets: capabilities, financials in EA, why business should use EA
- Enterprise Architecture: Choosing appropriate solutions to address problem situations.
- Why is Cloud Adoption Taking so Long?
- Ring the Bell – Philly Here We Come!
- At Social Business Summit London 2013
- Are Your Systems as Hard as Glass?
- Business success – It’s all about choices
- Next Generation – applying Enterprise Architecture to managing projects
- Next Generation – applying Enterprise Architecture to managing projects
- Big Data still in naivety proves Elusive to Big Picture and Randomness
- Enterprise Architecture in China: Who uses this stuff?
- What is Natural Language Processing?
- Hitchhikers guide to TOGAF exam preparation
- Improve ITSM by Visualizing your Existing Data
- Using the “Wheel of Change” to justify Business Architecture
- Outside In
- Enterprise Architecture – Moderating tribal behaviour
- The change of the change
- EA Worst Practice #1 – Enterprise Architecture for its own sake!
- EA Worst Practice #1 – Enterprise Architecture for its own sake!
- A Project Portfolio Management Approach
- Enterprise Architecture – Size does not matter.
- Hello world!
- Australian and New Zealand Architects Surveyed on Business Architecture
- Implicate Order – Probabilistic Ontology – Complexity Theory
- It’s the Longest Day of the Year – Spend it Doing Something Fun!
- The Project Business Model Stakeholder Impact
- The Horror, The Horror…..of Innovative Design.
- Mike Walker on Business Architecture, Part 2
- Building Blocks of Your Enterprise Mobile Strategy
- Building Blocks of Your Enterprise Mobile Strategy
- EA Roadmap for success: Wrap up
- Rationalising Application Rationalisation
- Simplified My Life – Prepared for Something New
- Simplified My Life – Prepared for Something New
- Reaching the Pinnacle: A New Enterprise Architecture Book by Sam Holcman
- OMG’s European Business Architecture Innovation Summit (Berlin)
- Can you compare Enterprise Architectures?
- BIG DATA: Integration in Sheep’s Clothing?
- Rational Rationalization – Part the First
- How to build better systems – the specification
- Digital Disruption: Find the Disruptions, Go There
- Don’t Panic, Troux Has You Covered
- BPM & EA Conference London, 2013 – My Learning Experience
- BPM & EA Conference London, 2013 – My Learning Experience
- Data Management 4: Data Stewardship
- Begin Every Project with a SWOT Analysis
- Business Architecture, through the looking-glass and onto the yellow brick road
- Do investors discriminate?
- Do investors discriminate?
- VPEC-T: What Works & What Doesn’t?
- VPEC-T: What Works & What Doesn’t?
- At ‘EA and Systems-Thinking’ conference
- Things You Don’t Know About xMatters
- Enterprise Architecture – Size does not matter.
- Enterprise Architecture – Size does not matter.
- Business Capability based EA Roadmap
- How to evaluate your Enterprise Architecture
- EA Voices
- How to measure Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture Survey
- Architecture in the domain of economics
- SCAN as ‘decision-dartboard’
- Requisite Scatter
- Innovate 2013 — Great EA Track
- Measuring the Value of EA: Part Art, Part Science
- Stupid Shark Tank Tricks
- Stupid Shark Tank Tricks
- Enterprise Architecture Cartoon!
- Enterprise Architecture Cartoon!
- Enterprise Architecture Roadmap for success: Capability Based Planning
- Whence, Angels?
- Whence, Angels?
- Emerging Technology and Disruptive Technology – What’s the Difference?
- So you have to transmit some files, huh?
- Maximize Value from CMDB by Integration
- Don’t ban the word “alignment” from your architecture
- Placing Architecture Properly into Scrum Processes
- Data Management 3: Realization of Entities in applications
- Digital Disruption: Know the Fundamentals of Your Business
- How to build a Roadmap – Gap Analysis
- Experts of the Enterprise Architecture World
- Sometimes the small details do matter
- Ban the Word “Alignment” From Your Architecture
- NOTES – actors, agents and extras in the enterprise
- IBM’s Own IT Transformation Example
- IBM’s Own IT Transformation Example
- The Project Business Model Stakeholder Groups
- Governance and empowerment #openwork
- Every organisation is ‘for-profit’
- Trying to understand IaaS, and other nonsense
- Trying to understand IaaS, and other nonsense
- Prioritization tool
- Open Group TweetJam on ‘Platform 3.0′
- A simpler SCAN
- Gartner EA Conference Summary in Top Influential Tweets
- Open Group Announces Risk Analysts Certification
- Driving Boundaryless Information Flow in Healthcare
- Webinar: The Strategy to Execution Process
- Smart Agile Delivery
- Smart Agile Delivery
- The Fun / Value Quadrant
- 6 Keys to Success for Application Portfolio Management
- I demand he shoots me now….
- Enterprise Architecture: Exposing procrastination
- Enterprise Architecture: Addressing business complacency.
- Questions for the Upcoming Platform 3.0™ Tweet Jam
- Repeat Day 2013: Old data governance methods don’t work. Stop repeating yourself.
- An Integrated Electronic Health Record Needs Enterprise Architecture for Communicating …
- An Integrated Electronic Health Record Needs Enterprise Architecture for Communicating Separation of Concerns
- Digital Disruption: You Can’t Move Too Fast!
- Tactical Thinking – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
- Social BPM and Smart Process Apps Are Improving Productivity for All Process Participants
- Enterprise Architecture: A structured approach to its development
- How difficult should it be?
- Mr Ashby’s Bright Idea
- A practical set of EA deliverables
- Don’t leave the EA framework at the door
- EAM2013 Enterprise Architecture Management recap
- Mike Walker Publishing on CIO.com and HP Discover Performance Blogs
- Why should your business care about Platform 3.0™? A Tweet Jam
- Five Attributes of Strategic Thinkers
- Healthcare Transformation – Let’s be Provocative
- Enterprise Architecture: Measuring its success.
- A Different Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference in 2013
- Recapping the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2013
- Enterprise Architecture: Managing the impact of risk on business decisions.
- What are Your Services?
- Digital Disruption: Lose the Constraints
- The Show Must Go On
- Some BYOD Technology Recommendations
- The Decision Model, Enterprise Architecture, ArchiMate and “The Decision Modeler”
- The dark age of change and enlightenment inertia
- Webinar: Selling Business Architecture
- What Happened to the Fine Art of Business Analysis? – Revisited 2013
- What Happened to the Fine Art of Business Analysis? – Revisited 2013
- Enterprise Architecture: Guiding Principles.
- The Project Business Model Principles
- Link Collection — May 26, 2013
- Towards Next Practice EA
- Towards Next Practice EA
- Some notes on NOTES
- Enterprise Architecture – Shaping business operations.
- Data Management 2: Subject Areas and Objects
- SCRUM at the center of Enterprise Architecture
- SCRUM at the center of Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture – Enabling Business Maturity
- Farewell, Journal
- NOTES – putting it into practice
- Searching for Agility and Industrial Strength? – Part II
- Searching for Agility and Industrial Strength? – Part II
- Making Profits Using API Economy
- Understanding business activity – a key to achieving success.
- Digital Disruption: Unleash Employee IQ
- NOTES – an alternative approach for EA
- What is Business Architecture? Part 2
- Enterprise Architecture – managing competing forces
- “Business-Driven” Business Continuity Management
- Enterprise Architecture – What it is not.
- The Project Business Model Blue o’ Strategy
- EA Food Chain – Enterprise Architecture from Business Strategy to Operating Systems
- EA Food Chain – Enterprise Architecture from Business Strategy to Operating Systems
- The essence of all Enterprise Architecture Frameworks in 30 seconds!
- Searching for Agility and Industrial Strength?
- Searching for Agility and Industrial Strength?
- Putting the “Super” in QSuper
- Enterprise Architecture – Needing Governance and Compliance
- Implementation-independent design of business logic, integrated with business processes and information
- What really matters
- What really matters
- June 2013 Events
- June 2013 Events
- Strategy and Tactics – Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Back to the Future with The Theory of Constraints
- Enterprise Architecture – Supporting Innovation
- The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program Transformed My Career
- Identifying meaning in context: VPECS and VPEC-T
- On ‘T&C’
- Enterprise Architecture – Navigating the Business
- From Business Design to Business Change (#3) – The Learning Circle
- Extreme cooperation
- Dinner and a Little Disruption
- How to build a Roadmap – Define End State
- The Open Group Sydney – My Conference Highlights
- Is Your CIO Your CDO?
- Enterprise Architecture – Managing Risk
- ArchiMate from a data modelling perspective
- Creating a business context for Enterprise Architecture – Very Important!
- Over-sell, under-deliver!
- Right Sourcing. Right Now.
- A Modest Proposal
- Costs of acquisition, retention, de-acquisition
- Link Collection — May 12, 2013
- Your org as an api #openwork
- Enterprise Architecture Fatigue
- Enterprise Architecture Fatigue
- Right Sourcing book is out now!
- Winning the Information War with Mobile
- Everyday sexism of the subtler kind
- One Picture For All: Visualising Business-Technology Strategy
- One Picture For All: Visualising Business-Technology Strategy
- Business Benefit – It’s not just about the money!
- 2013 Conferences Mike Walker will be Attending
- The Business Model Canvas: Know Thy Business
- IT or Business, which side are you on?
- Corso Introduces Roadmapping Support for TOGAF® 9 in its Strategic Planning Platform
- Marketecture – a technique every architect should learn
- Marketecture – a technique every architect should learn
- Optimising the Business.
- Oracle Software Chief Thomas Kurian: 10 Strategic Cloud Computing Insights
- A Strategy by Any Other Name
- The New Normal
- Redefining traceability in Enterprise Architecture and implementing the concept with TOGAF 9.1 and/or ArchiMate 2.0
- Redefining traceability in Enterprise Architecture and implementing the concept with TOGAF 9.1 and/or ArchiMate 2.0
- Driving towards simplicity!
- Context Mapping, by Example
- Strategy – Shaping the Business
- Att-e-en-tion! To System Design
- With Smart Process Applications, More is Always Better
- Enterprise Architecture in Plain English
- Enterprise Architecture – A tool of trade!
- Data Management: Introduction
- Three Decision Model Predictions and The Decision Modeler
- The value of lenses
- Anticlients are antibodies
- More on backbone and edge
- Tripartite Approach to Enterprise Architecture
- Who is Your Customer?
- Contact Us
- Contact Us
- Contact Us
- The psychology of measurement #openwork
- Not your grandpa’s functional decomposition
- Not your grandpa’s functional decomposition
- Avoid the PowerPoint-to-Execution Gap: Strategists as Operators
- Direction and governance flows in Enterprise Canvas
- Go Ahead, Offer Me That One More Time
- Enterprise Architecture – A measure of success!
- Is this what you think of Enterprise Architecture?
- Business Goals must be defined and then measured.
- GRC : From “must pass” to value creation
- Beautiful things happen when we work together #openwork
- Triggers of Business Change
- What is Business Architecture?
- Enterprise Architecture – Supporting Business Change
- The “Right” Representation of the EA Value Cycle
- ProVision Comes to Gartner EA Summit: architecture projects have a greater focus more on business value
- Enterprise Canvas and the Service Cycle
- Business Architecture and Benefits Realisation
- On stakeholders
- Link Collection — April 28, 2013
- We’re talking Smart Process Apps — and so is Forrester.
- Accelerating Business Architecture
- All knowledge is not equal.
- Does Your Architecture Pass the “So What” Test?
- Systems Flow joins elite group of firms whose IT Architecture methods have been recognized by The Open Group.
- Scalability and uniqueness
- Reasoning with Taskless BPMN
- You Can’t Possibly Read the Emails You Send
- Enterprise Architecture and the Human Element
- How to Become a Hero for Growth
- Enterprise Architecture and the Knowledge Hierarchy
- The New IT Reality Demands a Participative Workforce
- The New IT Reality Demands a Participative Workforce
- Five Essential Capabilities Every Organization Should Have
- Top Technology Trends and CIO Priorities for 2013
- Top Technology Trends and CIO Priorities for 2013
- At BPM Portugal 2013
- Using the Enterprise Architecture to tell a story.
- Outsourcing: Beyond cheap labour
- From information architecture to evidence-based practice
- From information architecture to evidence-based practice
- Why information architecture needs systems thinking
- Why information architecture needs systems thinking
- We Ought to Know the Difference
- We Ought to Know the Difference
- Enterprise Architecture: Establishing a supporting Framework
- Mike Walker has Joined Hewlett-Packard
- Assumptions
- Assumptions
- Enterprise Architecture: A tool to use not a document to file.
- Usability is Not an Architecture Quality Attribute
- “Who will lead us out of our uncertainty?”
- Black Swans Are More Common Than You Think
- Unraveling the Developer Bias in Agile Development Practices
- Flexibility, Agility and Open Standards
- Enterprise Architecture – Solving the jigsaw!
- Building Networks with Business Models: Two approaches that will help you to understand and improve your value network
- Take A Better Look At Cloud Risks
- The Darkness
- Business Architecture and Related Domains
- Services, customers and citizens
- Type Popup
- Type Popup
- Business Architecture: The Business does not stop with Information Technology
- Power, Process, Project, People – The Effect
- Power, Process, Project, People – The Effect
- EA White Papers
- EA White Papers
- PwC’s CIO/CMO Roundtable with Geoffrey Moore
- EA Weblinks
- EA Weblinks
- 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and Other Baseline Monikers
- Five Cs of Enterprise Architecture
- Design Choice and Iteration
- EA Practitioners Have Significant Influence on $1.1 Trillion in Enterprise IT Spend
- The Interconnectedness of All Things
- What Are You Doing To Get Off XP?
- If you sell a problem too successfully, you will not enjoy what…
- If you sell a problem too successfully, you will not enjoy what…
- Enterprise Architecture: Supporting agility in decision making
- 4 Steps to Big Data Lite
- Enterprise as a … System
- Requisite-fuzziness
- Enterprise Architecture – Creating Order out of Chaos!!
- Johnny Carson as Carnac the Magnificent Architect
- Ten Predictions for Business Architecture in 2020
- Why Business Architecture matters
- Marketects: Delivering Good Enterprise Architecture
- Marketects: Delivering Good Enterprise Architecture
- Developing standards to secure our global supply chain
- Connect at The Open Group Conference in Sydney (#ogSYD) via Social Media
- Enterprise Architecture – why have one?
- Launching an Enterprise Architecture Program within State, Local, Municipal Organizations
- Launching an Enterprise Architecture Program within State, Local, Municipal Organizations
- The Project Business Model SWOT
- An Overview of Mobility and BYOD Technology
- Multi-Sided Platform Strategies
- Has in-person communication become the unwilling victim of technology?
- Enterprise Architecture and the Brownfield business.
- Link Collection — April 7, 2013
- AGILE architecture vs. agile ARCHITECTURE
- The Bounded Architect
- The Open Group Speakers Discuss Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture and Enterprise Transformation
- How The Light Gets In
- A Science of Enterprise Architecture? Really?
- DSC_0475 on Flickr.Piglets in hay
- The System Context Diagram
- Metrics for qualitative requirements
- Capabilities Demystified – Part 3
- The Open Group Conference in Sydney Plenary Sessions Preview
- Thinking About Big Data
- Conference presentations and workshops
- Conference presentations and workshops
- Very Qool
- Very Qool
- Privacy Matters for BYOD
- TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Certification is Weak
- Bad Habits Cause IT Talent Shortage
- Bad Habits Cause IT Talent Shortage
- From Business Design to Business Change (#2) – Be John Malkovich!
- Enterprise Architecture has more than one true definition (Sorry Gartner)
- 3 Steps to Proactively Address Board-Level Security Concerns
- Unfounded Reasons People Tell Me Why They Can’t Do Enterprise Architecture
- Your Options Analysis Does Not Impress Me
- Right Sourcing
- TOGAF misconception
- EA Voices as a Book
- EA Voices: The Book
- Three Notions of Maturity
- From Enabling Prejudices to Sedimented Principles
- From Enabling Prejudices to Sedimented Principles
- The brand new “Enterprise Architecture matters blog” book, just Kindled
- The craft of knowledge-work, the role of theory and the challenge of scale
- From Sedimented Principles to Enabling Prejudices
- EA Roadmap for success: Architecture Principles and models
- Why YOU Need a Business Architecture
- Dave Hornford Addresses Misconceptions Surrounding TOGAF
- Control, complex, chaotic
- Power, Process, Project, People – Force Three
- Power, Process, Project, People – Force Three
- Exciting FACE™ Air Force Event – April 2
- Why projects fail? Hint – It’s not technical skills.
- Why projects fail? Hint – It’s not technical skills.
- The equivalent of wget in PowerShell
- EA Effectiveness Series: Highly Impactful EA Organizations Make Value Driven Decisions
- Some Thoughts on Outsourcing
- 7 ways to present your business model
- At Unicom-EA 2013
- 6 Conditions for Success
- Join us for The Open Group Conference in Sydney – April 15-18
- Case Experiences and Best practices Using ArchiMate® and TOGAF®
- Why Business Needs Platform 3.0
- The Project Business Sprintlines
- Capabilities Demystified – Part 2
- Link Collection — March 24, 2013
- Power, Process, Project, People – Force Two
- Power, Process, Project, People – Force Two
- A Comparison of the Top Four Enterprise-Architecture Methodologies
- Implementing Organizational Structure and Focus
- Business Architecture
- The Interconnectedness Of All Things
- From Business Design to Business Change (#1) – The Content Paradox
- TOGAF Good or Bad? – Definitely Ugly!
- TOGAF Good or Bad? – Definitely Ugly!
- Welcome to my blog!
- #ogChat Summary – Business Architecture
- Work from home and making adult choices
- Work from home and making adult choices
- An Agile Enterprise Architecture (EA) Delivers Critical Business and Mission Agility
- An Agile Enterprise Architecture (EA) Delivers Critical Business and Mission Agility
- Open Group TweetJam on business-architecture
- My First 180 Days as a CIO
- The “Answer” Is Always 42
- Continuous re-evaluation: using Risk Assessments to drive your GRC system
- T’was but an Ounce of a Moment.
- Telework Talk is Too Extreme
- Gaining Greater Cohesion: Bringing Business Analysis and Business Architecture into Focus
- On not eating the elephant
- Business Model Innovation: connecting innovation with implementation
- Factors in selecting an application to support a business initiative
- Cloud and Continuity of Supply Risk
- We Ride
- The case for Buy, Build, Augment or Reuse.
- Should companies go to jail?
- The Project Business Model Timeline
- Big Issues Facing Business Technology in 2013 and Beyond
- Big Issues Facing Business Technology in 2013 and Beyond
- Cloud and Continuity of Supply Risk
- A Simple Change Cycle
- More keywords for SCAN
- An Agile Enterprise Architecture (EA) Delivers Critical Business and Mission Agility
- An Agile Enterprise Architecture (EA) Delivers Critical Business and Mission Agility
- Questions for the Upcoming Business Architecture Tweet Jam – March 19
- M2M: A Weapon in the War on Carbon Emissions?
- M2M: A Weapon in the War on Carbon Emissions?
- 4th Nordic EA Summer School
- The Dichotomy of Change
- Government IT: Once A Laggard, Now A Leader?
- Price, value and ‘the market’
- MIT www.technologyreview.com: Sensing-as-a-Service
- Having Standards and Going Broke
- EA Roadmap for success: Consultants
- Product and service
- Three signs that your project has a good IT architect
- Three signs that your project has a good IT architect
- Business Architecture Tweet Jam – March 19
- www.forbes.com: outside-in & competitiveness
- Missing the mark!
- Business Model Analysis with the Business Model Canvas
- Line-In-The-Sand Leadership
- Rate of Change
- Rate of Change
- Quick Hit Thoughts from RSA Conference 2013
- A Brain for The Internet of Things
- Lost In Translation Chapter One
- Lost In Translation Chapter One
- Enterprise Architecture: Charting the Journey to Business Value
- Enterprise Architecture: Charting the Journey to Business Value
- VPEC-T Pesentation to SCiO
- VPEC-T Pesentation to SCiO
- 2013: The year the Internet-of-Things takes-off?
- 2013: The year the Internet-of-Things takes-off?
- Enterprise Architecture – Death by Meta Models
- Enterprise Architecture – Death by Meta Models
- At Integrated-EA 2013
- Requisite Inefficiency
- The Project Business Model Results
- Danish metamodels
- OpenText Smart Process Applications: The Importance of Process On-Ramps and Off-Ramps
- OpenText Smart Process Applications: In The Age of the Customer BPMS is not enough
- QR Code: Your own M2M ID
- QR Code: Your own M2M ID
- Beyond Big Data
- The Open Group Approves EMMM Technical Standard for Natural Resources Industry
- Worst Methods for Enterprise Architecture
- Worst Methods for Enterprise Architecture
- 7 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Klout Score
- 7 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Klout Score
- The Principles of the Global Workforce
- The Principles of the Global Workforce
- The Cynefin framework has five domains. The first four domains…
- The Cynefin framework has five domains. The first four domains…
- An Update on ArchiMate® 2 Certification
- Enterprise Architecture: a vital tool for splittability
- Top 3 Reasons CIOs say No
- OpenText Smart Process Applications: At the Intersection of Social Street and Core Systems Ave
- Doing VPEC-T Analysis in Rich Pictures
- Capabilities Demystified – Part 1
- Yes, yes, but what do you do?
- The Project Business Model Profile
- The Project Business Model
- Come See Mike Walker Speak on the EA Industry Expert Panel and Present at the Troux Conference 2013
- Frameworks and rigour
- For What It’s Worth
- Organizational Models for Social Business
- Benchmark to stay ahead of the disruption curve
- EA Panel on Big Data and Cloud Trends Enabled by ArchiMate and TOGAF
- Hybrid architectures
- Complexity from Big Data and Cloud Trends Makes Architecture Tools like ArchiMate and TOGAF More Powerful, Says Expert Panel
- Arguing with Mendeleev
- Welcome to Platform 3.0
- Knowledge and Memory
- The Monk and the Mountain
- System Theory for Architects
- Internal Audit as the key to Risk Management
- What are Words Worth?
- Open Work unedited notes on my current thinking
- Intelligence and Governance
- Intelligence and Governance
- Humility and the Art of Enterprise Architecture
- Is Enterprise Architecture a Technology Function?
- Developing cultures of high-quality care
- Developing cultures of high-quality care
- #InfoArch – Post 2. The starting point
- #InfoArch – Master Data – Short definition
- Take Every Opportunity to Document
- The Open Group works with Microsoft to create Open Management Infrastructure
- Turning around the Team
- Turning around the Team
- Enterprise Architecture Roadmap for success: Tooling
- Understanding the Strategy Diffusion Problem
- Next Generation – applying Enterprise Architecture to managing projects
- Next Generation – applying Enterprise Architecture to managing projects
- Agility Through New Technologies
- All value is not created equal
- Combine EA and APM for double optimization of IT Governance
- Open CA Gets Top Pay in Enterprise Architecture Certifications
- Shared Vocabulary for Business Innovation and Modernization
- What story does your architecture tell?
- What story does your architecture tell?
- Please excuse thinking aloud:- Re: no.5, you cd do some quick research / consultation w users in advance. Rather than crowdsource challenges identified by orgs, ask service users…? This cd be done in lots of different ways. Also, why stick to one challenge per team over duration of jam? Re: no.8, have you considered inviting service users too? Or running concurrent jam using same starting points?
- Enterprise architecture: Challenging the top 3 misconceptions
- Enterprise architecture: Challenging the top 3 misconceptions
- Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate
- Service design jams and social housing
- No Power for Enterprise Architects
- No Power for Enterprise Architects
- Why Becoming Social Isn’t Just For Woolly Headed Idealists
- Love in the Time of Cholera: How to do Business in a Recession
- Enterprise and ecosystem
- Power, Process, Project, People – Force One
- Power, Process, Project, People – Force One
- Four principles for a sane society: an addendum
- CfP DED&M 2014
- CfP TEAR 2013
- The Open Group Panel Explores How the Big Data Era Now Challenges the IT Status Quo
- Knowing What You Have Supports Planning
- Power, Process, Project, People
- Power, Process, Project, People
- Enterprise architecture: Purpose and definition
- Deep Thinking on The Architecture of Architecture: Meta-Architecture
- Lessons from Lance – the future and Digital Doping
- Lessons from Lance – the future and Digital Doping
- Four principles for a sane society: Summary
- Deep Thinking on The Architecture of Architecture: Meta-Architecture
- Delivering Business Value with Enterprise Architecture Using TOGAF® and ArchiMate®
- I’m Not Ready to Bid Farewell to Three-Tiered Architecture
- Cybernetic Entropy
- Cybernetic Entropy
- Evolution of VC Models, Part 2
- Evolution of VC Models, Part 2
- Four principles – 4: Adaptability is everything
- The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group Web Jam on CIO Priorities
- Framework for Service Oriented Ecosystem
- TOGAF Demystification Series: The Truth behind the TOGAF Standard Creation
- Big Data’s Big Impact on Enterprise IT– The Open Group Panel Discussion
- JEA XL: Journal of Enterprise Architecture 2013-1
- Visual Thinking
- My Architecture & Governance Magizine Article: Business Architecture & Best Practices
- Open Group Panel Explores Changing Field of Risk Management and Analysis in the Era of Big Data
- Is TOGAF incomplete, complex and sucks? Second installment
- Attack of the Vegan Zombie Business Cases
- Enterprise Architecture: Charting the Journey to Business Value
- Enterprise Life Forms
- Enterprise Life Forms
- Four principles – 3: Money doesn’t matter
- On Demand Broadcasts from Day One at The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach
- Enterprise architecture looks like an MRI scan
- Designing the next programming language? Understand how people learn!
- Designing the next programming language? Understand how people learn!
- Details vs Context
- Details vs Context
- Planning the contribution of the leader among architects
- Strong CIO, C-suite Relationships Drive Growth
- Capturing The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach
- Is EA A Strategy ~ Future of CIO
- The Best Laid Plans
- Walk the Talk
- Walk the Talk
- Changing the Nature of the Conversation
- Operational Data Stores and canonical models
- Operational Data Stores and canonical models
- Enterprise Architecture Roadmap for success: Establish an Enterprise Architecture team
- TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Doesn’t Play Well With Others
- How to Fund Your Business Idea
- Is complexity a problem for the enterprise?
- TOGAF Demystification Series: Comparing TOGAF to Other Frameworks
- Identity Standards: ISO 24760-1
- Is TOGAF incomplete, complex and sucks?
- Building Enterprise Architectures with TOGAF 9 – Technical Whitepaper
- drEAmtime – summary
- drEAmtime – summary
- Complexity is not a problem
- Agility and Fear
- Agility and Fear
- How Offices Make People Stupid
- How Offices Make People Stupid
- How to visualise your IT strategy using Kanban
- Culture Mapping Tool
- Three Best Practices for Successful Implementation of Enterprise Architecture Using the TOGAF® Framework and the ArchiMate® Modeling Language
- drEAmtime – modelling
- drEAmtime – modelling
- Three Best Practices for Successful Implementation of Enterprise Architecture Using the TOGAF® Framework and the ArchiMate® Modeling Language
- “Fairy Bright Eyes”, Projects, and Decay
- TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Sucks, Incomplete and Overly Complex
- drEAmtime – Frameworks
- drEAmtime – Frameworks
- When Doing Less Gets You More
- Dell Becomes a Member of The Open Group
- Native Apps Part II: A Hybrid App
- Buy-before-build is generally sound advice. But uncritical…
- Buy-before-build is generally sound advice. But uncritical…
- TOGAF Demystification Series: Overview
- Connections
- The Many Faces of Case Management: Operational Excellence for the Energy Sector
- Business Process Management versus Business Analysis?
- Drawing a Line in the Sand
- Webcast: Enterprise Architect Soft Skills Series
- We all have two lives: The one we’re given and the one we make
- drEAmtime – PACE SCAN
- drEAmtime – PACE SCAN
- “New Now” Planning
- #InfoArch – Post 1. Information Architecture – Our definition
- Create your own QR code
- International Standards, Reference Models and Publications Quick Guide
- drEAmtime – WISE SCAN
- drEAmtime – WISE SCAN
- Four principles – 2: There are no rights
- drEAmtime – Archetypes
- drEAmtime – Archetypes
- Are we making progress?
- Are we making progress?
- Native EA Apps
- Addressing the Multi-Dimensionality Challenge on Thinking of The Enterprise as a System
- From research to practice
- From research to practice
- Addressing the Multi-Dimensionality Challenge on Thinking of The Enterprise as a System
- drEAmtime – EPIC SCAN
- drEAmtime – EPIC SCAN
- drEAmtime – Capability Cemetery
- drEAmtime – Capability Cemetery
- drEAmtime – Bridging the Silos
- Fellow Enterprise Architects, Avoid the EA Buzzword Bingo!
- Enterprise Architecture and abstraction layers
- The chance that your car might be washed away is not the only…
- The chance that your car might be washed away is not the only…
- What is Information Architecture?
- drEAmtime – Communication
- Free TOGAF 9 Exam Simulator and Sample Questions
- Fuzzy Point of Failure
- Should Business Architects use the Business Model Canvas at the Program level?
- Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?
- First Open Group Webjam — Impact of Cloud Computing on our Resumes
- Four principles – 1: There are no rules
- Four G’s: Gartner, Gamification, Getting Things Done & Game Theory
- Open Group Newport Beach Conference Day Two Keynote Highlights
- Real Criticism, The Subject Supposed to Know
- Real Criticism, The Subject Supposed to Know
- Open Group Newport Beach Conference 2013 – Big Data Panel
- Enterprise Architecture Roadmap for success: Project based implementation
- Protecting Data is Good. Protecting Information Generated from Big Data is Priceless
- Four principles for a sane society
- A Quick Look at the Importance of Information Architecture
- Open Group Newport Beach Conference 2013 – Day One Keynote Highlights
- Rumination on the concept of “best practice”
- The over-certainties of certification
- The Open Group Conference Plenary Speaker Sees Big-Data Analytics as a Way to Bolster Quality, Manufacturing and Business Processes
- drEAmtime
- Working with ‘I don’t know’
- Expert Generalists and Innovative Organizations
- Expert Generalists and Innovative Organizations
- Application Management Pricing – Not Easy Ground
- Application Management Pricing – Not Easy Ground
- Leveraging Social Media at The Open Group Newport Beach Conference (#ogNB)
- Welcome to the Operational Governance Blog
- How To Understand The Difference Between Value-Proposition and a Product or Service
- Information and Affirmation
- Information and Affirmation
- The Antifragile Enterprise: Complexity Exists, but Let’s Not Overcomplicate it or IT.
- The Calculus of Cost 2
- Improving Signal-to-Noise in Risk Management
- The Antifragile Enterprise: Complexity Exists, but Let’s Not Overcomplicate it or IT.
- How Should we use Cloud?
- Enterprise Architecture is not aimed at creating models. Is that so?
- Our relationship to technology isn’t only utilitarian.
It…
- Our relationship to technology isn’t only utilitarian.
It…
- Types of Cost
- The Art of Accepting Feedback
- Successful Enterprise Architecture using the TOGAF® and ArchiMate® Standards
- Worst Methods for Enterprise Architecture
- 2013: The year the Internet-of-Things takes-off?
- Context of Architecture Roles
- Wearables and Pervasive Computing: A 2013 Trend to Consider
- #ogChat Summary – Big Data and Security
- Managing Business Transformation
- What is a value-proposition?
- Why it is so hard for leaders to manage change?
- Tom Graves – The Business of the Business
- Metamodels
- On the business of the business
- The Open Group Photo Contest: Document the Magic at the Newport Beach Conference!
- Designing secure organizations. Risk management, Enterprise security management and ArchiMate.
- On the use of the word ‘delivery’
- Open Work: first notes
- The Price of Fish
- The Price of Fish
- Adrian Campbell
- Payroll Taxes Revenue vs GDP is System Maxed
- Payroll Taxes Revenue vs GDP is System Maxed
- EA is Strategic Planning
- Link Collection — January 20, 2013
- Culture club
- Why You – Yes YOU – Need a Vision
- Why You – Yes YOU – Need a Vision
- Beyond Personal Knowledge Management
- Beyond Personal Knowledge Management
- Multi Lateral Cognition – Key Learning and Discerning Capability to Study Complex System
- More on reframing entropy in business
- Questions for the Upcoming Big Data Security Tweet Jam on Jan. 22
- “Science, which is a belief-system”
- Application Portfolio Management: Crash Diet or Lifestyle Change?
- Enterprise-architecture and organisational health
- Untitled
- Mastering the Enterprise
- Invest in the Interesting to Reveal the Relevant
- Can You Dumb it Down?
- Sinan Si Alhir on antifragility
- All Effective Enterprise Architects Are Agile
- Big Data Security Tweet Jam
- Market as organisation, market as enterprise
- On Readiness
- On Readiness
- Antifragile (or maybe Liquid) Organizations
- Can it get any Worse?
- Enterprise Architecture Roadmap for success: Adopting an open approach to Enterprise Architecture
- How to make change happen in government
- How to make change happen in government
- In Quest of Consciousness
- In Quest of Consciousness
- Learning : Traveling the Order of Consciousness
- GLUE Framework – Fixed Circulatory GLUE Cube
- GLUE Journeys – Obvious missed take 2
- Soft Skills, Leadership, and now Empathy
- Soft Skills, Leadership, and now Empathy
- Enterprise Architecture Domains
- The Death of Planning
- The most important personality trait of an Enterprise Architect
- 2013: The Year of the CIO
- Implicate Order as Ontology For Complex System – Creating Generative Transformation
- Moving Forward in a Complex Hyper-connected New World
- Generative Transformation :- System is the Method
- Flying in the Cloud by the Seat of Our Pants
- Business Network Optimization
- Maybe the Mayans were Right after all
- Lean or Six Sigma?
- TOGAF Study Help – iPhone to the Rescue (perhaps)
- TOGAF Study Help – iPhone to the Rescue (perhaps)
- The Curious Case of the Courts’ CIO: How ACM Solves the New Service Delivery Challenge
- Data Governance: A Fundamental Aspect of IT
- Smalltalk and the TIOBE index
- Link Collection — January 6, 2013
- Core values of a good enterprise architect
- Open Group 2013 Predictions Part 2
- A tale of a 7 year journey in developing software for the enterprise
- A tale of a 7 year journey in developing software for the enterprise
- RACI Matrices, EA Charters, and Surgical Suites
- RACI Matrices, EA Charters, and Surgical Suites
- Business Architecture Training – January 2013
- 2013 Open Group Predictions, Vol. 2
- Reframing entropy in business
- Gartner on New Skills Required For Enterprise Architects
- Functional Decomposition Isn’t Functional Anymore
- Have you found your natural rhythm?
- The unique contribution of enterprise-architecture
- Beyond ICT: Embracing the Next Digital Revolution
- Open Group 2013 Predictions Part 1
- Review: Elevating Enterprise Architecture
- 2013 Open Group Predictions, Vol. 1
- Considering enabling individuals to realize their dreams
- 10 Must Have Skills for IT Architects
- The Physical Environment and its Outcomes
- Let the Chief Architect take the lead during 2013