All posts from 2014
- An end to the arguments
- New PDF Pricing for Mastering #ArchiMate per 1/1/2015
- The Change Canvas
- The Onion From The Inside Out
- Escaping the Jaws of the Project Monster
- Employees roles and company culture
- So, how can we deal with the digital disruption of the enterprise?
- The Growing Demand for Digital Leadership
- Using the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge with Other Open Group Standards
- The ArchiMate Files – 7. Language issues
- The Enterprise goes digital
- Taking a break
- The Enterprise goes digital
- Calling a halt
- The point of specialism
- “We are different! But are we really different?”
- 2014 Moments and Memories: A Holiday EA Reading List
- Round instead of square
- Six Ways to Define Your Internet of Things Strategy
- Business capabilities and Enterprise Architecture
- What is Decision Management?
- Christmas 2014 Archi & Mastering #ArchiMate special
- EA to Reflect On and Upgrade Its Role
- EA to Reflect On and Upgrade Its Role
- How to be brilliant every day
- More on trolls, specialism and context
- The secret to surviving disruptive innovations!
- The dangers of specialism-trolls in enterprise-architecture
- Business capabilities, why are they popular
- Hitting the Innovation Nail on the Head: Innovating with Purpose
- Next Generation of EAs
- New: The (Mastering) #ArchiMate FAQ
- “Enterprise” Architecture will Grow Up to become Enterprise Architecture
- “Enterprise” Architecture will Grow Up to become Enterprise Architecture
- The Business of Managing IT: The Open Group IT4IT™ Forum
- Exposing Technology Debt
- The ArchiMate Files – 6. Views and viewpoints
- Laying Foundation for Digital Age: Claude Shannon, 1948
- Should You Say Yes to #NoEstimates?
- Understanding and owning the customer ecosystem
- The CMO versus CIO issue
- Low-hanging Cloud
- Who needs an architect if everything goes to the cloud?
- The Open Group ArchiMate® Model File Exchange Format
- The Open Group Executive Round Table Event at Mumbai
- Courses and Other Events
- The digital officer role proposed by the business is the conceptual Enterprise Architect
- To Liberate Healthcare Data, Dip into Data Lakes
- The 5 most known pitfalls for informed decision making
- Mastering Enterprise Investment
- Enterprise Canvas – a military analogy
- Shearing Layers – Part 3
- Shearing Layers – Part 3
- Enterprise Architecture communication: Lessons from ‘Louis from Gaal’
- Improvation
- The ArchiMate Files – 5. specialization
- Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
- Defending the faith
- The digital enterprise transformation should be lead by the Enterprise Architect
- Black Friday Deal for Mastering ArchiMate Edition II PDF
- Influence your destiny
- RBPEA: Wrapping up on gender
- The “digital” enterprise trendy frenzy
- Demand Shaping in the Digital Age
- Business Process Modelling: Top-down or bottom-up?
- RBPEA: An anticlient’s tale
- “Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen” – The Recipe for Strategic Planning Success
- TOGAF® 9 Certification Growth
- Do you perform Information Architecture or a Data Architecture?
- We need an organization to arbitrate and progress the Enterprise Architecture discipline
- Do you perform Information Architecture or a Data Architecture?
- Enterprise Architecture: Need for Speed
- My Experience with Mindfulness/Meditation
- The Age of The Micro-UI
- Who is your Chief Architect?
- Who is your Chief Architect?
- EA is not a metaphor and the transformation architect is not a substitute for EA
- RBPEA: On abuse and gender
- Enterprise Architecture and Innovation: A Cultural Change
- Bridging Technology and Innovation: The CIO’s Role in Driving New Growth
- Are you Teaching a Starving Man to Fish?
- Are you Teaching a Starving Man to Fish?
- The Open Group London 2014 Preview: Eight Questions on Retail Architecture
- RBPEA: a quick note on inequalities
- The ArchiMate Files – 4. Internal vs external
- How to recruit an Enterprise Architect
- Your Digital Source of Competitive Advantage: Where to Start?
- RBPEA: On equality and gender
- It works, but do they love it?
- It works, but do they love it?
- The Architecture Manager – the Forgotten Enterprise Architecture Role
- The Architecture Manager – the Forgotten Enterprise Architecture Role
- On Women in Computing
- RBPEA: On empathy and gender
- Why Enterprise Architecture stirs debates and sometimes, adversity
- RBPEA: On power and gender
- IT for People, Not People for IT
- Corporate Grind
- Corporate Grind
- Working for the Machine
- Working for the Machine
- Return to RBPEA
- On the CMO-CIO disconnect
- On the CMO-CIO disconnect
- Staying relevant in the digital economy
- Spot the difference
- Global Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard
- On Complexity
- Spot the difference (short version)
- Better Together: Information Architecture and Information Management
- Better Together: Information Architecture and Information Management
- Pre-emptive defence
- Services and Enterprise Canvas review – worked-example
- Modelling networking using the networking concepts of #ArchiMate
- New Enterprise Architecture Column: On Slippery Ice
- New Enterprise Architecture Column: On Slippery Ice
- Den fjärde vågen
- EA/ST Meeting Report October 2014
- EA/ST Meeting Report October 2014
- Den tredje vågen
- Call for Papers: EA in Practice — Shifting Roles and Organizational Considerations
- Call for Papers: EA in Practice — Shifting Roles and Organizational Considerations
- How Can You Win in the Digital Economy?
- Why we should not enforce now a code of ethics in enterprise architecture
- Organizations Must Leverage Enterprise Architecture as a Strategic Resource to Advance their Internet of Things Strategies
- Organizations Must Leverage Enterprise Architecture as a Strategic Resource to Advance their Internet of Things Strategies
- Services and Enterprise Canvas review – Summary
- Breaking Through Fusion14
- Services and Enterprise Canvas review – 6: Exchanges
- Why Metamodels Matter
- The enterprise architecture code of ethics dilemma
- Should an Enterprise Architecture code of conduct be introduced at all costs?
- Management by Measurement – The true value of Performance Indicators
- The Open Group London 2014 – Day Three Highlights
- The Open Group London 2014 – Day Two Highlights
- Connective thinking is rare, crucial – 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity
- 12 Hurdles Hampering the Internet of Things
- Modelling Homogenous Landscapes in #ArchiMate (Classes and Instances)
- Business Capability Planning in the Enterprise Intelligence Age
- Join Mike Walker in Minneapolis to Learn How EAs are Essential to Innovate Digital Disruptions
- Join Mike Walker in Minneapolis to Learn How EAs are Essential to Innovate Digital Disruptions
- The Open Group London 2014 – Day One Highlights
- Moore’s Law Deemed Hazardous
- The ArchiMate Files – 2. The real world, models, architecture
- The EA code of ethics business case
- Managing the Maturity of the Enterprise.
- The Emergence of the Third Platform
- BiZZdesign: One-Stop Shop for Building Your Enterprise Architecture Capability
- Is it right or wrong to have a code of ethics for EAs today?
- EA in Plain English: “Waiter, there’s a fly in my model!”
- Open FAIR Blog Series – Five Reasons You Should Use the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge
- Services and Enterprise Canvas review – 2: Supplier and customer
- Making Complexity a Strategic Decision
- Is the TOGAF ADM too reactive?
- The ArchiMate Files – 1. Introduction and Theory
- Services and Enterprise Canvas review – 1: Core
- Why CX Matters to EA
- Services and Enterprise Canvas review – Introduction
- The Open Group London 2014 Preview: A Conversation with RTI’s Stan Schneider about the Internet of Things and Healthcare
- EA and Building Architecture
- Beware of ‘policy-based evidence’
- The downfall of Housing Technology
- The Art of Enterprise Architecture 1.0 as downloadable PDF
- The Enterprise Architecture style of “pink” leadership
- Learning and the limits of automation
- Autumn Events 2014
- Autumn Events 2014
- Driving Business Outcomes with Enterprise Architecture as a Knowledge Hub
- IT Trends Empowering Your Business is Focus of The Open Group London 2014
- BEWARE: Smart People with Dumb Tools
- Business Benefit from Public Data
- Webinar: Re-positioning the Value of the Architecture Practice
- A Practical Application of Business Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture as the anatomy of three dimensional enterprise body
- The Relative Value of EA Frameworks
- ArchiMate from theory to practice: series overview
- Welcome
- The Open Group London 2014: Open Platform 3.0™ Panel Preview with Capgemini’s Ron Tolido
- Enterprise-architecture as hologram
- Organisation and enterprise as ‘how’ and ‘why’
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture tools 2014
- EAPJ now available on SlideShare
- EAPJ Back Issues Now Available for Download
- “It’s not rocket-science”
- QualiSoft Brukerdag
- EA Symposium in Stockholm
- Zachman International® appoints new Chief Strategy Officer
- Fail, to learn
- CoE at EA2014
- Reliability Centered Maintenance
- How to be successful with the process design team? Five tips!
- Open FAIR Blog Series – An Introduction to Risk Analysis and the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge
- What do we need from our EA tools?
- So Long for Now
- My Remarks on the Recent Business Architecture Guild Workshop
- Webinar: Driving Your BA Career
- Fractals, naming and enterprise-architecture
- At Vlerick Business School: EA roadmapping
- Business Architecture – A Coming Of Age As IIBA Endorses Training
- From service to product
- Agile Self Governance
- Agile Self Governance
- Do You Have a Great Digital Business Strategy?
- The Knowledge Economy: The bankrupting of the clever country
- The Open Group Panel: Internet of Things – Opportunities and Obstacles
- The New Face of Enterprise Architecture
- 5 Realities about Agile Cost Savings
- Too efficient ?
- How Enterprise Architecture manages Complexity and Chaos
- Organisation and enterprise
- Enterprise Architecture: A Practitioner View
- Why the ‘why’ matters
- EA Voices
- ‘Trying’ may be ‘Doing’: so take care.
- Where or When We Learn Core Business Values
- From product to service
- EA as a tool to manage and reduce enterprise Complexity and Chaos
- Mass-customisation, mass-uniqueness and big-data
- FEAC Certified
- FEAC Certified
- On ‘Why Smart People Get Depressed’
- Planning the Enterprise: Understanding time horizons.
- FEAC Certified
- FEAC Certified
- Data We Can Trust
- Now is the Time for Third Generation Enterprise Architecture Methods
- Lessons on Total Digitization from Top Performers
- My Personal Productivity Approach
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Enterprise Patterns
- 3 Ways Technology is Transforming Care Management
- Don’t Let End of Life Sneak Up on You
- ArchiMate 2.1 Specifiction
- Our First IT Core Service Catalogue
- Pointless paperwork
- Using The Open Group Standards – O-ISM3 with TOGAF®
- Agile Governance
- Agile Governance
- Does the EA’s Wardrobe Matter?
- Personal Learning Plans Support Employee Retention
- How Are You Managing Total Digitization?
- US Regional, Metropolitan Area Public Sector “Open Data” Synergies, Opportunities, Challenges
- Understanding EA frameworks with the IT Architecture Journal
- Large organizations don’t need customers, they can be busy with themselves
- Have you established your 6:2 brain diet yet
- Developing Enterprise Strategies
- 7 Practices for Growing a High Performance Architecture Team
- All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
- ISACA Revamps COBIT 5 Core Principles
- The 5 V’s of Big Data
- The identity of enterprise architecture
- “I die inside…”
- Business Services: What are they, really?
- Architecture Segments
- How to approach a business problem
- Real-Time Strategy is a Reality
- The Enterprising Business: Its all about the people
- Cloud Computing is the How, not the What
- Governance is not an end in itself
- Three Breeds of CIOs
- Managing transformation: principles or methodology first?
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back to 2007
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (x)
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (ix)
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (viii)
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (vii)
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (vi)
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (v)
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (iv)
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (iii)
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (ii)
- Reflecting on EA Masterclass
- Enterprise Architecture in posts going back to 2007
- My EA presentations, articles, site, books and posts for the last eight years or so
- Business Model Innovation: follow the customer, or others will!
- The Internet of Things is the New Media
- Continuous Delivery: A PwC Perspective
- PaaS is lacking a vision on application development
- Networks and Serendipity versus the Vested Interests
- NYT Report: ‘Janitor work’ Big Part Hurdle to Insights — What Can EAs Do About This?
- Organisations pursue the complete solution
- The enterprise body of knowledge is larger than enterprise architecture
- The EA stereotypes, are they meaningful?
- Beyond IT Strategy: Digital Strategies for the 21st Century
- Enterprise Architecture-Based Risk Assessment with ArchiMate
- Business model innovation: The fifth path
- Is Low Hanging Fruit Good for You?
- When does EA start to care about sociocultural influences?
- Q&A with Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor, Boston University School of Management and Research Scientist MIT Center for Digital Business
- 5 Must-Have Characteristics to Enable Enterprise Architecture Successfully
- When does EA start to care about sociocultural influences?
- SABSA
- TOGAF® Framework and ArchiMate® Harmonization
- Where should IT be in the reporting structure?
- Complementing Agile SDLC with Agile Architecture
- Complementing Agile SDLC with Agile Architecture
- Free TOGAF Resources
- Think Twice Before Selling Data
- The Best Enterprise Architecture Tool
- The Ninety Degree Shift
- When Free Isn’t Better
- Thoughts on the Business Reference Model (BRM)
- Internal Alignment
- Social Media Checkup: Healthcare Industry Growing Stronger
- TOGAF® Framework and ArchiMate® Modeling Language Harmonization, two whitepapers
- TOGAF® Framework and ArchiMate® Modeling Language Harmonization, two whitepapers
- Thinking Like An Architect
- While Enterprise Architecture is dead, TOGAF is alive, according to Forbes
- Call for Book Chapters: Beyond IT Strategy: Digital Strategies for the 21st Century
- Enterprise Architecture, dead or still alive?
- Is technology making the World too complex?
- Sketches on Portfolio Management
- Hello
- Discussing Enterprise Decision-Making with Penelope Everall Gordon
- Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation
- Business Architecture in the New Normal
- Innovation – Edges or Center??
- Innovation – Edges or Center??
- Is Executive Sponsorship Good for You?
- Is there any truth behind such IT statements?
- Office Space 2: The Rise of Milton
- Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Strategy
- Get Your Enterprise Architects Plugged Into Your Big Data Initiatives
- Get Your Enterprise Architects Plugged Into Your Big Data Initiatives
- Intended (Good Architecture) vs Actual (Real Architecture)
- Intended (Good Architecture) vs Actual (Real Architecture)
- Governing the Enterprise
- Case Study – ArchiMate®, An Open Group Standard: Public Research Centre Henri Tudor and Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg
- Enterprise Risk Management approach
- Lessons learned in managing engineering team growth
- Notes from Gartner IT Sourcing Forum – Dubai May 2014
- 7 Creative IT Effectiveness Ideas
- The need for clarity
- Welcome to the world of BPMN 2.0 – Some valuable tips!
- Welcome to the world of BPMN 2.0 – Some valuable tips!
- Welcome in the world of BPMN 2.0 – Some valuable tips!
- The Open Group Boston 2014 – Day Two Highlights
- Call to survey – Is your EA program valuable?
- 10 Easy Steps to Good Data
- The State of Enterprise Information Architecture
- The State of Enterprise Information Architecture
- Call to survey – Is your EA program valuable?
- Enterprise Architecture – Untangling the Business.
- Are Your IT Systems Ready To Take You into the Digital Age?
- The Open Group Boston 2014 – Day One Highlights
- Architecture does not equal transformation but it enables it
- Agile and the Fairy Godmother
- Agile and the Fairy Godmother
- How to Build a Sustainable Business Architecture Practice
- The Cheap Information Officer evolves!
- The Cheap Information Officer evolves!
- The role of Enterprise Architecture in business transformation
- The Open Group Boston 2014 – Q&A with Proteus Duxbury, Connect for Health Colorado
- The Rise of the Connected Advisor
- Enterprise Architecture: It’s Not Just About Technology Anymore
- The Open Group Boston 2014 Preview: Talking People Architecture with David Foote
- Why before who
- New Health Data Deluges Require Secure Information Flow Enablement Via Standards, Says The Open Group’s New Healthcare Director
- Recruiting for better business outcomes.
- The Enterprise Architecture Kaleidoscope
- Fred Flintstone, Architect
- Fred Flintstone, Architect
- Everyone’s an architect
- Enterprise Architecture: Key to Successful Business Transformations
- MIcrosoft CEO States Strategy in Public Email To Employees
- Free Guide to Key Standards and Publications
- Mike Walker is Taking Inquiry Calls and Vendor Briefings
- Mike Walker is Taking Inquiry Calls and Vendor Briefings
- Welcome to my new Gartner Blog!
- Welcome to my new Gartner Blog!
- Business Restructuring: Constructive or Destructive?
- Webinar: Transform Vision into Value: Managing the Strategy to Execution Process
- Banking on pain, minus the gain
- The Open Group Boston 2014 to Explore How New IT Trends are Empowering Improvements in Business
- Essential Balances in Projects
- Are Your Business Rules Creating Business Success or Wreaking Havoc?
- Is it better to be agile or flexible ?
- Open Group goes into mining
- How Much Progress is Enough
- How Much Progress is Enough
- Enterprise Architect or Enterprise Archaeologist?
- Enterprise Architect or Enterprise Archaeologist?
- The Invisible Coup
- The Inverted Swan
- The Enterprise Architecture failure to deliver
- A Down to Earth Guide to SDLC Project Management
- The Simplest metamodel in the world ever!
- spaltonsketchnotes: Got my driving test soon, feel kinda…
- Avoiding a Leaky Scope Bucket
- ‘Precrastinators’, ‘Cowboys’, Procrastinators and business outcomes
- While the Chief Marketing Technologist role is new, the work is old
- The Power of APIs – Join The Open Group Tweet Jam on Wednesday, July 9th
- Architecture Purity
- Architecture Purity
- Being Forgotten in the Internet of Things
- 5 Reasons Good Strategy Goes Bad
- Being Forgotten in the Internet of Things
- Navigating to achieve business goals
- Three EA gigs in Mexico
- Are you an Architect or an Engineer or a Technician?
- Are you an Architect or an Engineer or a Technician?
- 6 Technology Innovation Sources for Outside-In Learning
- RACI for Enterprise Architecture
- From Software-Defined to Metadata-Driven
- Why High Performance Organizations Are Hard to Build
- Strategic Alignment Survey
- Business Change – A fact of life
- At #HseParty14 I curated the creation of a Museum of Future…
- Defensive denial
- Defensive denial
- EA Debt
- Staying on Track in the Data Race
- My ‘EA Masterclass’ coming to Australia
- Brand Marketing of Standards
- A Mild Mannered Architect’s Advice on Policy
- A Mild Mannered Architect’s Advice on Policy
- Enterprise strategy is more than business strategy
- Enterprise adaptation to technology change is key to survival
- What motivates employees
- The Untold Benefits of an Enterprise Data Model (Reference Architecture)
- Your Enterprise Architecture questions answered in one place
- How About Strategy? – Learning about strategic alignment
- Managing conflict at work
- The Open Group Open Platform 3.0™ Starts to Take Shape
- One Simple Solution to Unite the CIO and CMO
- $harp Practice
- Microservices and the Internet of Things – First impressions
- Microservices and the Internet of Things – First impressions
- Picking low hanging fruit: not the windfall it seems.
- Cynicism is Not a Skill
- Cynicism is Not a Skill
- On leadership, acting and deception
- What Is a High Performance Organization?
- Strategy and prototyping
- From Dread to Delight – Taking a Human Centred Approach to TOGAF®
- It’s Time IT Is Part of the Business
- Winning Over Choosey Multichannel Customers
- Events, messages and state
- Events, messages and state
- Victim of a professional with attitude – a requirements story
- Victim of a professional with attitude – a requirements story
- Extending the Architect Role Ontology to the rest of the business
- The Wrong Answer
- Mapping Agile Architecture
- Mapping Agile Architecture
- The Next Chapter of Enterprise Architecture: Self-Service
- Selling EA – 4: Proving value, and pricing
- Scaling Agile means Scalable Architecture
- Example of a high level Ontology supporting Architect roles.
- Enabling SSH to a local VirtualBox guest on Mac
- Are Direct Messages really private, or not?
- The Digital Ecosystem Paradox – Learning to Move to Better Digital Design Outcomes
- Data Center 2.0 – The Sustainable Data Center now available
- Better positioning architecture resources in the employment market.
- Lack of User Trust is Killing IT
- How Do You Measure Up?
- How Do You Measure Up?
- The Connection between Enterprise Architecture and Data Centers
- Webinar: Why Good Strategies Go Bad And What You Can Do About It
- Published: Acme Building Materials Case Study
- Selling EA – 3: What and how
- When methodology is diverted
- How strategy works
- Business Maturity and dealing with the unexpected
- How to pitch enterprise architecture in one long breath
- Thought Leader Interview: Corban Lester on Green IT
- Baselining and Agile Principles
- Enterprise Initiatives – A Train Built By Monkeys
- Business Capabilities – Taking Your Organization into the Next Dimension
- Baselining the business
- Architect or Coach?
- Architect or Coach?
- I have no idea what you want!
- I have no idea what you want!
- Selling EA – 2: The value-proposition
- CMDB Deployment: Where to start? – Part 2
- Getting the Business to Care About Enterprise Architecture
- Selling EA – 1: What do EA clients want?
- Webinar: Business by Design
- Assessing Capability
- The Elusive High Performance Organization
- Systems are temporary, data is forever
- Webinar Series on Enterprise Design
- Managing Complexity While Offering Simplicity: What’s Next for ING Direct Spain?
- Finding a Home for the Chief Data Science Officer
- 10 interview questions for an Enterprise Architect
- Open Group Boston 2014
- Knowing, doing, being
- The Onion & The Open Group Open Platform 3.0™
- Hypotheses, method and recursion
- Do You Feel Safe?
- Open Architecture for the Public Sector
- Open Architecture for the Public Sector
- On value-governance
- Find a Giant and Climb up their Back
- Find a Giant and Climb up their Back
- The Value Of Design Research
- Towards an Open Architecture for the Public Sector
- Towards an Open Architecture for the Public Sector
- Price, value and Glasgow School of Art
- The Future of the Mike The Architect Blog
- Socially Developed Architecture
- Is the Business Model Canvas a useful tool in an Enterprise Architect’s toolbox?
- spaltonsketchnotes: My #sketchnotes from the awesome Paper…
- Socially Developed Architecture
- On mass-uniqueness
- Mike Walker has joined Gartner
- What is TOGAF?
- TOGAF® meets Baldrige: Strange Bedfellows or a Marriage Made in Heaven?
- Thought Leader Interview: Mike Callahan on Business Architecture
- Case Study: Improving a Cloud Computing Initiative at a Non-Profit Organization
- How to document the EA and the “data compilation” approach (ii)
- Form follows non-function
- Using Enterprise Intelligence to Strengthen Cyber Security
- Are you an Architect or an Engineer?
- Are you an Architect or an Engineer?
- ArchiMate® Users Group Meeting
- Quick SCAN examples
- Enterprise Architecture Approach in an HE Institution: 10 Practical Steps
- Enterprise Architecture Approach in an HE Institution: 10 Practical Steps
- How to document the EA and the “data compilation” approach
- National Decision Model
- National Decision Model
- Insights from #ogAMS
- Enterprise Architecture for Mergers and Acquisitions
- The Internet of Things Means Business
- The Open Group Summit Amsterdam 2014 – Day Three Highlights
- The Open Group Summit Amsterdam 2014 – Day Two Highlights
- We don’t need another Hero
- A Bucket of Scope
- Trying to Digitize? Learning How From Emerging-Economy Companies
- The Open Group Summit Amsterdam 2014 – Day One Highlights
- Improving Patient Care and Reducing Costs in Healthcare
- Enterprise Canvas for government regulator
- Housing association X.0
- Bending reality (short version)
- Bending reality
- Not so wicked
- Just Released: World-Class EA: Business Reference Model
- To change the structure, change the story
- The Beauty of Enterprise Taxonomy and Why it Matters….
- The Beauty of Enterprise Taxonomy and Why it Matters….
- 5 Trends Spotted at Forrester’s Forum for Technology Management
- The Museum of Future Housing Tech
- Keep the focus on the right market!
- Not Another Framework? Part 2
- Not Another Framework? Part 2
- One-liner for removing *ALL* ZFS snapshots
- Your enterprise and social media?! We’ve got an IDEA!
- “Please don’t touch the touchscreen”
- Enterprise-architecture – too WEIRD, too WIRED?
- Achieving agility with data virtualization (2/2)
- Achieving agility with data virtualization (2/2)
- Scaling Agile for the Enterprise
- Does anonymity promote ill-informed consensus?
- Desensitising the Introvert
- Oh No! We need another Practice Framework?
- Oh No! We need another Practice Framework?
- Assessing Business Architecture’s Value Contribution
- Like magic…
- On reference architectures (ii)
- Connecting Business and IT
- The Value of Enterprise Architecture in Managing Risk, Compliance and Security
- Why EA needs to influence IT and the Business
- Lessons Learned: A Look Back at Our 2014 Troux Worldwide Conference
- LeanCoach. Analysis – Waste Scan
- On reference architectures
- Blog is Moving to WordPress
- Blog is Moving to WordPress
- Returning to Blogging…and Moving to WordPress
- Returning to Blogging…and Moving to WordPress
- Business Function: Does it still have a place in Business Architecture?
- Architecture is simple
- The Open Group Summit Amsterdam – ArchiMate® Day – May 14, 2014
- Are You Fighting for Your Users?
- Assessing Business Architecture’s Impact
- Business Models are not strategies
- The Value of Reference Architectures
- Aligning the Infrastructure Architecture with the Systems Application Architecture
- Aligning the Infrastructure Architecture with the Systems Application Architecture
- The Future of Housing Tech Roundtable
- Let it go
- Texas AEA Summit Recap
- Glitch…
- On the true nature of knowledge
- On the true nature of knowledge
- Heartbleed: Tips and Lessons Learned
- OpenGroup TweetJam on healthcare-information
- Enterprise-architect – applied-scientist, or alchemist?
- Mendix World 2014 keynote full video
- FreeBSD and openjdk8 install: remember to check your system temperature during compilation
- The Zachman Framework – The Perfect Tool for Operating Model Management
- The Zachman Framework – The Perfect Tool for Operating Model Management
- The Enterprise Architect is responsible for the technical and “business” debts
- WeeChat — an interesting console based IRC client
- Shadow IT: Asset or Liability?
- Information is at the Heart of ALL Architecture Disciplines
- Embracing our inner weirdness
- Evolution of IT – Stage 1 – The Developer
- Evolution of IT – Stage 1 – The Developer
- An enterprise-architects’ mantra
- Why big data analytics fail?
- Improving Patient Care and Reducing Costs in Healthcare – Join The Open Group Tweet Jam on Wednesday, April 23
- The dilution of enterprise-architecture
- “Which EA school do you belong to?”
- Achieving agility with data virtualization (1/2)
- ArchiMate® Q&A with Phil Beauvoir
- Achieving agility with data virtualization (1/2)
- Enterprise Portfolio Management – Introduction
- TOGAF Distilled
- Ask The Right Questions
- Identify Indirect Stakeholders with System Context Diagrams
- The fading role of the CIO?
- The Business Designer and the Architecture
- The Difference between Service Catalog and Service Portfolio
- Beyond Technology: How Enterprise Intelligence Supports Business Strategy and Change
- Why big data analytics fail?
- You can make anything out of LEGO™
- Redrawing the Viable System Model diagram
- Designing for Emergence
- The business architect role and the enterprise architecture of tommorrow
- Republishing my other backlist
- Business architecture FAQ
- Towards Value-Driven Architecting
- Algorithmic Enterprise Architecture
- Just Because You Build It, Doesn’t Mean They’ll Come
- Keys to a Successful Business Transformation
- How do you think?
- Driving Value with Big Data
- On the Origin of Objects
- Will the Rise of the IoT Mean the Fall of Privacy?
- Will the Rise of the IoT Mean the Fall of Privacy?
- How the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS) and Accreditation Will Help Lower Cyber Risk
- LeanCoach. Measure – Analysis selection
- Learning TOGAF 9 Poster #27 – Business Transformation Readiness
- Playing ‘pass the grenade’?
- Ramblings of a Disturbed Consultant – Part 2
- When another perspective is needed
- What business problems does Enterprise Architecture solve?
- Business Architects: What’s at the “core”?
- Gartner Redefines Gamification
- Gartner Redefines Gamification
- Third-Generation Information Architecture
- How does “Design Thinking” fit in Business Architecture?
- LeanCoach. Measure Fact collection
- Four Business Architecture Value Propositions
- The Enterprise Architect of Hamelyn
- The Enterprise Architect of Hamelyn
- Business Intelligence versus Enterprise Intelligence
- From EA to Business Architecture
- What‘chu Talkin’ ‘Bout, Business?
- Operational excellence in the self-serve warehouse of IKEA
- Spaghetti Grows in System Architectures – not an April Fools’ Day joke
- Spaghetti Grows in System Architectures – not an April Fools’ Day joke
- The Financial Incentive for Health Information Exchanges
- 5 Behaviors of Digital Performance
- The shadow of the enterprise
- TOGAF and SOA
- Enterprise Architecture in Healthcare
- Integration – Send Me a Message
- Ramblings of a disturbed consultant – Part 1.
- Enterprise Architecture Conference 2014 – IRM
- More on Requisite Inefficiency
- Capabilities in Enterprise Architecture
- G-A-M-I-F-Y has (almost) Arrived!
- G-A-M-I-F-Y has (almost) Arrived!
- Red, Green and Personal
- UML for functional programming?
- “The history of enterprise architecture proves…”
- Enterprise Agile: One Size Does Not Fit All
- Your Company Doesn’t Want Business Architecture
- The Power of Storytelling for Enterprise Architects
- Gamification: Moving beyond, points, badges and leader boards.
- Public Sector Open Data via Information Sharing and Enterprise Architecture
- Public Sector Open Data via Information Sharing and Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture training-course
- Process or Tool, which should come first?
- Q&A with Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group
- Product, service and trust
- Meeting Recap: Center for EA
- Irony at work
- Going on a customer journey
- Business Values
- The Open Group Amsterdam Summit to Discuss Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™
- Business architecture: Is it happening in the right place?
- IT-centrism and real-world enterprise-architecture
- Too late for Enterprise Architecture?
- Too late for Enterprise Architecture?
- LeanCoach. Measure Process mapping
- CMDB Deployment: Where to start? – Part 1
- Plan the Future
- CIOs to Leverage EA to Bolster their Presence in the C-Suite
- Investing to a resonable risk/return ratio
- Photo
- Photo
- SEAS Inc. signs a collaboration MOU with OAGi
- 2014 Troux Worldwide Conference at a glance
- Platform for Housing part 2: a bit more detail #ukhousing
- What Is the Value of a Roadmap?
- Agile is not Dead, it’s Morphing
- Agile is not Dead, it’s Morphing
- Culture of Zero Initiative
- The Risk of Doing Nothing
- Business Measures
- Q&A with Jim Hietala on Security and Healthcare
- New – EA training-course
- “Make it Work Like Our Current System” and Other Requirement Pitfalls
- Links: Making the case for polymaths
- OIOEA and QualiWare
- CEGMON – a blast from the past
- QualiWare Center of Excellence
- The enterprise people architecture
- How does the Zachman Framework compare to other frameworks?
- The Internet of Things & me – still fun after all these years!
- The Internet of Things & me – still fun after all these years!
- Lawyers, Guns and Money
- Software is disrupting Industries: are you Trendwatcher or Trendsetter?
- Featured Video
- Why is the Zachman Framework so misunderstood?
- What the C-Suite Needs to Prepare for in the Era of BYO Technology
- LeanCoach. Measure Fishbone
- Climbing the ladder from EITA to EA
- A Systems View of Business Architecture
- Updated Speaker Lineup for The texas Association of Enterprise Architects Summit
- Enterprise + Architecture definition
- Making sense of technology hype and fads!
- Making sense of technology hype and fads!
- The CIO’s Role in the Internet of Things
- Whole-Brained Business Analysis – New Metaphor Required
- Whole-Brained Business Analysis – New Metaphor Required
- Putting data to good use
- Running and Scaling Virtual Enterprise Architecture in the Digital Age
- Running and Scaling Virtual Enterprise Architecture in the Digital Age
- What is a method?
- What Comes First: The Data or the Tool?
- A Tribute to Jack Rockart
- Big-data, big-information, big-knowledge
- Two SCAN notes – 2: Causal Layered Analysis
- Accrediting the Global Supply Chain: A Conversation with O-TTPS Recognized Assessors Fiona Pattinson and Erin Connor
- Issue Resolution – Celebrate Your Success
- Four Skills for the 21st Century Leader
- Washing Machines, Rights and Responsibilities
- Platform for housing: doing it right once VS wrong many times #ukhousing
- Register Now for the Texas Association of Enterprise Architects | Summit
- Architecture principles, good or evil?
- Two SCAN notes – 1: Edges
- At Integrated-EA 2014
- Open Group ‘#ogChat’ on ‘smart cities’
- The Open Group and APMG Work Together to Promote TOGAF® and ArchiMate®
- SEAS Inc. and OAGi in formal Collaboration Talks
- Open Group Enterprise Architecture San Francisco Conference 2014 Recap
- The PaaS shakeup and what it means for OpenStack
- On Customer Insight
- On Customer Insight
- Forrester’s ‘EA 2020′
- Let People Know They Matter
- In love with the machine OR its benefits?
- In love with the machine OR its benefits?
- One Year Later: A Q&A Interview with Chris Harding and Dave Lounsbury about Open Platform 3.0™
- Lean & Enterprise Architecture: Enterprise Architecture for Lean Business Processes
- Enterprise Architects Should Follow the Money
- Strategic use of business models: case study
- How to Build a Smarter City – Join The Open Group Tweet Jam on February 26
- Issue Resolution – Determining a Solution
- What’s Wrong with Universal Credit? On The Rooting of the Particular in the Universal
- What’s Wrong with Universal Credit? On The Rooting of the Particular in the Universal
- Three Essential Elements for High Performance Organizations
- A real serious looking transaction error!
- A real serious looking transaction error!
- Narcissistic Applications and Architecture
- Narcissistic Applications and Architecture
- Johnny Cash on Technical Architecure
- Johnny Cash on Technical Architecure
- Facing the Challenges of the Healthcare Industry – An Interview with Eric Stephens of The Open Group Healthcare Forum
- Texas Association of Enterprise Architects February Meeting
- Beware the Barbarians at the Gate
- ABM Case Study Presented at ACMP MENA Conference
- Strategic use of business models: implementation
- Consultant’s Tooling: Using Google Slides over PowerPoint
- So Many Different Views, So Much Business Architecture Confusion
- Exploitation Versus Exploration
- Exploitation Versus Exploration
- Business Architecture Ready For Prime Time
- Enterprise Architecture governanace
- EA toolsets – time to get on the cluetrain?
- Spring Events 2014
- Spring Events 2014
- Jobs at Glue Reply
- Jobs at Glue Reply
- Running Ghost on FreeBSD 9.1 with MariaDB and nginx
- The Open Group San Francisco 2014 – Day Two Highlights
- Welcome!
- Why Technology Must Move Toward Dependability through Assuredness™
- MIT CISR remembers Jack Rockart
- Welcome to Ghost
- The Open Group San Francisco 2014 – Day One Highlights
- New Accreditation Program – Raises the Bar for Securing Global Supply Chains
- Strategic use of business models: the business model canvas
- Do You Really Want to be a Business Architect? Really?
- “Off the Shelf” Software Implementation Pitfalls
- Goals and Objectives
- Blueprinting Key Deliverables (from ASAP 7.0)
- Come see the Business Architecture Keynote from Mike Walker Keynote at the Open Group Conference
- The Enterprise Architecture turns the enterprise management into a science
- Healthcare and information-flow
- What I learnt at The Open Group Bangalore Conference last weekend
- Enterprise Architecture at BiZZdesign in 2014
- Business Architect’s Resource Survey – Last Chance
- Efficient, effective, convenient?
- There is no architecture. Only mirrors
- Efficient versus effective (an addendum)
- Efficient versus effective
- Data: Bigger Doesn’t Always Mean Better
- The Gill Framework: Do We Need Another EA Framework?
- eGovernment – Success or Failure
- Strategic use of business models: strategic management
- The Business Architect as Change Agent
- Transformation Business Model in Minutes?
- Transformation Business Model in Minutes?
- Why aren’t there Enterprise Architecture show cases? (i)
- Some Lessons For Enterprise From Startup Culture
- Software is not a product
- Conferentie: Van Vinken Naar Vonken – Ondernemen In De Nieuwe Wereld
- Why video is the next big thing in big data
- The ArchiMate® Certification for People Program 2014 Updates
- The Enterprise vision and strategy
- Business Architecture – because business models aren’t enough!
- Dads and Daughters and Sexism
- Knowable and discoverable
- Never mind the Meta-bollocks: a rant about #entarch
- Not All Change Is Transformational
- Strategic use of business models: introduction
- The future belongs to systems thinkers
- Think Strategically, Proceed Practically
- Mission Statement
- 6 Signs You Need a New IT Strategy
- SCANning the toaster
- In 2014, Enterprise Architects Must Play Both Foundational and Vanguard Roles
- In 2014, Enterprise Architects Must Play Both Foundational and Vanguard Roles
- Why aren’t there Enterprise Architecture show cases?
- Architecture for the Digital Business
- Architecture for the Digital Business
- Emerging Technologies Open New Horizons for Gamification
- Emerging Technologies Open New Horizons for Gamification
- Re-purposing the Technical Debt Metaphor
- Re-purposing the Technical Debt Metaphor
- Link: Three Approaches to Managing Total Digitization – Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner
- Managers, leaders and hierarchies
- Your Invited to the Texas Association of Enterprise Architects January Meeting
- Announcing The Texas Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects
- Link: The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation | MIT Sloan Management Review
- Diagram: McKinsey Digital Transformation Areas
- The Limits of Gamification in the Workplace
- The Limits of Gamification in the Workplace
- Vision Statements
- Future Shock: Why IT Needs to Embrace Agile Development or Be Left Behind
- ERP implementation: detailed process descriptions and requirements
- Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles for 2013
- Price, value, worth and cost
- Moving Critical Apps to the Cloud?
- 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Enterprise Architects
- The definition of EA is what it is rather than what it is for
- The gift of a world
- Digital Enterprise or Digital Front Office?
- Don’t Let Your Context Manage You
- Hey, Did You Get My Message?
- Taking the right path
- Building a business – moving towards success.
- MDM in LED
- A kind of milestone