Establishing an Enterprise Architecture function

When establishing (or indeed re-establishing) a brand new Enterprise Architecture function within an organisation there are perhaps two main approaches: A big bang approach A gradual iterative incremental approach I favour the big bang approach. This is for several reasons: 1) a big bang send a clear and confident message to everyone in the organisation that […]

A week in Tweets: 26 December 2010 – 01 January 2011

Managing to keep up to date at present, so here’s the list of Tweets and links for the week (and year) just past. Usual categories, of course.

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

tetradian: [post] Where is the information when we need it? http://bit.ly/hPBME3 #entarch #itarch #orgarch #systems
jdevoo: MIT SMR Analytics: New Path to Value http://bit.ly/g0ExUs – […]

Some thoughts on the topic of EA

Why do EA initiatives fail to deliver on their promise? (PA#1.1) Why did Spock fail to be logical? (PA#1.2) We only ask people and projects to be compliant never committed to the vision presented by EA. (PA#1.3) EA is envisioned, built and executed as a static structure but sold as the generator of dynamic behavior. […]

Update: End of Thesis, New Book

This blog has been dead for a while, partially due to a major, positive change of circumstances in my private and professional life. First of all, I married my wife on September 25 in Sydney. Hence, my surname has changed to Jensen-Waud. I will use thi…

Update: End of Thesis, New Book

This blog has been dead for a while, partially due to a major, positive change of circumstances in my private and professional life. First of all, I married my wife on September 25 in Sydney. Hence, my surname has changed to Jensen-Waud. I will use thi…

A week in Tweets: 19-25 December 2010

A somewhat smaller collection of Tweets and links this time – mainly because people are heading off into their various holiday-seasons, I guess. Same categories as usual, though, preceded by the usual ‘Read more…’ link.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and similar business themes:

SAlhir: RT @GreatestQuotes “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should […]

Where is the information when we need it?

We boarded the plane, settled down in our seats, to await pushback from the gate – the usual ‘hurry up and wait’ of everyday air-travel. Seemed to take a bit longer than usual, though. Strange clonks and thumps from beneath my seat, down below in the cargo bay. We wait, and we wait.
[I won’t name […]