Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Day 1 of the Open Group Conference was kicked off with a bang. Jeanne Ross, whom I refer to as our EA Rock Star started the day with some fresh thinking about how we approach EA. For al the presentations…
A kind of follow-up to the previous post ‘IT-oriented versus IT-centric‘, this one starts from a Tweet from the Open Group’s official TOGAF Twitter-account: togaf_r: TOGAF Resource: The TOGAF 9.1 changes overview and 6 other slide decks are now at http://t.co/Arm40mgA (free PDF) #ogsfo The link points to the Open Group’s ‘public resources’ website for […]
Next up in my Q&A series on EA, I am going to address how the EA market is changing and what vendors are doing to support user’s new expectations. Question: What are some of the ways that EA is evolving and what changes are EA tool vendors implementing to support those changes? Answer: In my […]
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This blog post is a comment on the recent political debacle about the proposed Protect IP Act (PIPA) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) — two of the, in my opinion, most draconian breaches of privacy and civil liberties to ever emerge out of US politic…
This blog post is a comment on the recent political debacle about the proposed Protect IP Act (PIPA) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) — two of the, in my opinion, most draconian breaches of privacy and civil liberties to ever emerge out of US politic…
I’m often confronted by solution architects, IT and technical architects who don’t understand what Enterprise Architecture is all about. They usually misinterpret enterprise architecture from their own perspective as some kind of system design of ‘enterprise’ scale IS/IT systems and become frustrated when they discover that it is really something else. It often turns out that […]
#entarch Like many complex capabilities, enterprise architecture operates at several different tempi. (See my post on Enterprise Tempo.) A workshop at the SEI last year identified three tempi, which it called “Operating Modes”.
At the lowest level, en…
This Post is of an unpublished paper I wrote in 2008 and 2009. Dr. Chris Marai helped me by commenting and proposing edits. The concepts it presents and some sections of the writing I subsequently used in my book, Organizational Econom…
I’m currently sifting through my past blog-posts of the past five years or so, with a view to republishing some of them in ebook-format, to make them more accessible in a more convenient and more portable form. So far there are well over 400 blog-posts here on enterprise-architecture and related themes, plus a few more […]
As the economy shifts ever onward from manufacturing toward services, how do marketing and market-relationships need to change with this shift? And what enterprise-architectures do we need to support this? [In part this is a follow-on from Dave Gray’s excellent Dachis Group article ‘Everything is a service’: I strongly recommend to read that post first […]
This is another follow-on to the earlier post ‘Helping others make sense of my work’ – this time about how to bring all of this to a wider audience and market, and help bring ‘whole-enterprise architecture’ ideas into more general use. If you’ve been around this weblog for a while, you’ve probably noticed I tend […]
Retail Reference Architecture, it’s evolution and real-life pragmatic implementations happens to be one of my key interest area. So far on this blog I have discussed the concept of Retail Reference Architecture, proposed a concise yet complete Simplifi…