Modelling people in enterprise-architecture

As mentioned in the previous post, one of the key characteristics of ‘crossing the chasm’ to a viable whole-of-enterprise architecture is the explicit inclusion of people. In short, we need to be able to model and map where people fit in relation to the architecture.
But there’s a catch. A big catch. People should not be […]

Business Architecture and Business Ecology

This is a response to a very thought-provoking discussion that’s been going on at the Business Ecology Initiative LinkedIn Group on the topic of whether Business Architecture is synonymous with Business Ecology.  I suppose the answer depends on wh…

Business Architecture and Business Ecology

This is a response to a very thought-provoking discussion that’s been going on at the Business Ecology Initiative LinkedIn Group on the topic of whether Business Architecture is synonymous with Business Ecology.  I suppose the answer depends on wh…

Business Architecture and Business Ecology

This is a response to a very thought-provoking discussion that’s been going on at the Business Ecology Initiative LinkedIn Group on the topic of whether Business Architecture is synonymous with Business Ecology.  I suppose the answer depends on wh…

Business Architecture and Business Ecology

This is a response to a very thought-provoking discussion that’s been going on at the Business Ecology Initiative LinkedIn Group on the topic of whether Business Architecture is synonymous with Business Ecology.  I suppose the answer depends on wh…

Models as decision-records (Enterprise Canvas)

This one is mainly about enterprise-architectures, but also applies to just about any other usage of models – visual, mathematical or whatever – in pretty much any other discipline.
There’s a common perception that a model represents some kind of reality, either in the present, the past, or some intended future.
To my mind, though, it more […]

More on what event models can learn from database models

One of my earliest posts was entitled, “What can SOA learn from RDBMS?” In that posting I was arguing for “Event Triggers” that fire when “interesting” business objects change. Of course, “interesting” needs further definition and so for tha matte…

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ROI Based Business Cases and Long Range Value

In a series of interesting twitter posts @taotwit(Nigel Green), @erikproper, @oscarberg, @jdevoo have been discussing modelling Value – other than monetary value. In VPEC-T (modeling based on Values, Policy, Events, Contents and Trust) the abstract con…

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What Has Your EA Program Done for The Business Lately?

Sometimes it seems as if we only hear about what goes wrong in Enterprise architecture programs. That’s why it was such a pleasure to hear Forrester Research Inc. Analyst Gene Leganza describe what makes EA programs go right. His findings, based …

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