Great conversations on enterprise-architecture

A busy week this has been. The Gartner EA Summit and the Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners conference were both on in London at the same time, little more than a few hundred yards apart. And a lot of other things starting to happen in the enterprise scene as well: more good news on the […]

Power of EA + BPM: Thoughts from Gartner EA Summit

The Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit in London came to a close yesterday.  After two days of insightful keynotes, analyst presentations, workshops and networking, it was clear that business processes and EA are inherently and necessarily linked to one another.  In a recent Gartner survey, improving and aligning business processes was cited as an EA priority […]

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A week in Tweets: 17-23 April 2011

Still in catch-up, as seems to occur all too often – apologies. Another week’s-worth of Tweets and links, anyway. Usual categories, of course, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and suchlike:

jdevoo: RT @jpertusa: Fascinating! TED: Repository of open source hardware for development http://bit.ly/fywYGn #sustainability #entarch
JohnPolgreen: RT @pbmobi: real architecture=something where there was an […]

‘Ba’, Cynefin, place and architecture

Just been reading (via Tweet by Bill Ives) a post by Anne Marie McEwan on ‘Loosening the Taylorist Stranglehold on the Workplace‘. Within a much larger context in a very good article, this one brief section caught my attention:
The Japanese concept of ‘ba’ came up in one of the face-to-face conversations. … Nonaka et al say that […]

Troux Ranked Top Current Offering in EA Management Suites

At Troux we work hard to provide not only the deepest EA functionality in the industry, but the methodologies and services to make our customers successful. We also have a passion and a vision for the role that EA can play in aligning IT with the busin…

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More on ‘Not-quite VPEC-T’

[Updated to incorporate changes suggested by Nigel Green in the first comment in the comments-section below.]
A great conversation last night with Nigel Green, originator of the VPEC-T frame to elicit requirements and other concerns in enterprise-architecture and business-change design.
As described in my post ‘Not quite VPEC-T‘ back in November, the ’service-flow content’ part of my […]

Replacing Taylorism as our Management Doctrine

Over the last 239 years, organizations have been applying hierarchy, and top-down command-oriented management. This mindset erupted with the dawn of the steam engine in 1771, and in the late 1800s it was honed to razor sharpness by Frederick Winslow Taylor – the father of efficiency thinking and the science of productivity. Taylor’s work is […]

Six Strategies for a Successful Center of Excellence

Few organizations, less than 20% according to a recent study by Robert Kaplan and David Norton, are able to execute successfully on their business strategy1. Implementing the right business improvements is nearly impossible when you have no clear understanding of how your business’ strategy, processes, people and content are interconnected.  Many of today’s successful organizations […]

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