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Why a CMDB Cannot Power Your Digital Transformation

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“Do I need an EA tool to deliver digital transformation, or can I just rely on a CMDB?”. Or, in the same vein “What is the difference between an EA tool and a CMDB?”. And “Why buy an EA tool if I have a CMDB?”. These are some of the questions we’ve rec…

The Future Enterprise Architect

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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.

EA in miniature – Part 2: First steps

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What does enterprise-architecture look like at the smallest scale – a one-person organisation and their enterprise? For this series, I’m using my own case as a worked-example. My work is in the enterprise of enterprise-architecture itself: so how do I…

Unpeeling the Onion Doesn’t Have to Make You Cry

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Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Hillel Glazer believes that to answer the question, “How do we know we’re performing well?” organizations can work backwards — unpeeling the onion — to add the most visible and readily accessible attributes that would lead them from their center (the core of the onion) to the external world (or the outermost Read more

EA in miniature – Part 1: Introduction

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One of the core themes of my work is that enterprise-architecture principles and practices should apply in essentially the same way for every type of content or context, at every scope and scale. I’ve often written about EA at the very large…