EA and SOA at the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division
Enterprise Architecture and a Service Oriented Approach at the Department…
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Economic Value of Data
How far can general principles of asset management be applied to data? In this post, I’m going to look at some of the challenges of putting monetary or non-monetary value on your data assets.Why might we want to do this? There are several reasons why p…
Gossip, Trust and the Information Revolution
Our massive use of IT (the information revolution with its information inertia and its fast but stupid behaviour) is enabling our innate behaviour to surge against our learned behaviour and that is severely damaging the social structures we humans have…
Bill Estrem, a Long-time Member of The Open Group, has Passed Away
Bill Estrem, one of the major contributors to the development of the TOGAF® Standard and the TOGAF Certification Program, passed away on February 29, 2020.
The Roles of Enterprise Architects in Innovation – Part 3
In our previous two blogs, part 1 and part 2, we introduced the three roles of architects in innovation: Architecting for innovation: Architects can create room for innovation by reducing organizational complexity and facilitating change. Coordinating …
IT is us
The amount of IT we have brought in the world is turning the human species into something ‘extended’. IT has behaviour and as such is an amplifier of our intentions. IT is us, it is inseparable from us. What culture does your organisation’s IT embody?
IT is us
The amount of IT we have brought in the world is turning the human species into something ‘extended’. IT has behaviour and as such is an amplifier of our intentions. IT is us, it is inseparable from us. What culture does your organisation’s IT embody?
Enterprise architecture management, a theory of constraints, formal trade-off analysis methods and game theory
This article was submitted by Dmitri Ilkaev. Dmitri has over…
The Future Enterprise Architect
Before describing the future Enterprise Architect, we will reflect on the current Enterprise Architect, one of their customers – a current line of business leader – and the strained relationship between them. For the sake of personalization, we will call the current Enterprise Architect ‘Archie’, and current line of business leader ‘Loretta’.
In the future state of Enterprise Architecture, the relationship between the two evolves towards one that is more productive and trusted. We describe what a future Enterprise Architect might look like and summarize the salient differences.
The Value of Architecture Models for Agile Organizations
In the past, I have written extensively on the combination of enterprise architecture and agile development, most recently about the notion of intentional architecture. It is clear that for any organization or system of some size, a solid architecture …
An Alternative to the DIKW Pyramid
My 2012 post on the Co-Production of Data and Knowledge offered a critique of the #DIKW pyramid. When challenged recently to propose an alternative schema, I drew something quickly on the wall, against a past-present-future timeline. Here is a cleaned-…
The Threat of Cyber Terrorism & Security in Intelligent Transportation Systems Architecture
Cyber Terrorism Threats & Security in ITS Architecture By…