Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
In the middle of a chaotic battle, a “standard” is the flag that rallies the troops amid chaos and uncertainty.
Sandra McCoy and her EA team at Kaiser Permanente have used Troux to create standards to guide, rather than force, b…
In the middle of a chaotic battle, a “standard” is the flag that rallies the troops amid chaos and uncertainty.
Sandra McCoy and her EA team at Kaiser Permanente have used Troux to create standards to guide, rather than force, b…
This is part of a series of posts that I’ll be doing about ‘The Really Big Picture‘ at a societal/economic level, in relation to enterprise-architecture.
This post sets out some of the scope and scale of the changes that are or are likely to be coming up on the horizon over the next few years and/or […]
It’s time to review our EA practices and make amendments to the core frameworks and processes to face the challenges emerging from technology mega trends (Cloud/Mobile) and evolving business models (emerging markets). Continue reading →
The beauty of the O-TTPF, a set of best practices for engineering and secure development methods and supply chain integrity, is that the Framework and guidelines are being developed by industry — architects, developers, manufacturers and supply chain…
I am currently involved with the EAST group (an outreach group of SCiO http://www.scio.org.uk/ ) which is looking at the overlap between Enterprise Architecture and System Thinking, and in particular the Viable System Model (VSM). The Viable System Model has been around for many years, coming out of Stafford Beer’s work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Stafford_Beer This diagram looks complex at […]
Oops. Careless. I’ve let it slip back again. Oh well. Another somewhat-delayed collection of Tweets and links, then: still useful, I hope. Usual categories, of course.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, business-innovation and likewise themes:
SAlhir: RT @FasTake @Agotthelf: The Cultural Imperative For A Social Business http://om.ly/BSkbQ >business-culture at Yammer
SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer: Art of the Dumb Question | transformation […]
Consumers of Cloud services need to consider taking mitigating actions such as disruption insurance; having secondary backups; and the issues of assurances of SLAs, which are largely out of the hands of SMB Market users. Continue reading →
So Microsoft is to become the new owner of Skype! This is big news for us that run our business and personal communications on the platform. I suspect we were all relieved when eBay finally recognized the inevitable and sold a majority stake to inv…
So Microsoft is to become the new owner of Skype! This is big news for us that run our business and personal communications on the platform. I suspect we were all relieved when eBay finally recognized the inevitable and sold a majority stake to inv…
Merely putting SOA into your proposal or as a stated capability is no longer going to be a “deal clincher” or a key “business differentiator”. The counterview I hear practitioners in SOA will say is that SOA is not just the standardized service…
The ability to transform business is the most exciting feature of the Cloud phenomenon, but users currently see it “through a glass darkly,” and perhaps with a measure of faith and hope. More needs to be done to develop understanding of the business …