Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Working inside an enterprise is constantly a challenge to balance competing demands and chart the best course forward. Unfortunately, typical corporate IT culture is one where everything is ruled by project delivery metrics: on time and on budget. Based on behaviors I’ve observed, this results in two common things: Efforts to minimize the teams involved. […]
As awareness and interest in the Open Group’s new IT4IT Reference Architecture continues to gather pace in online communities, blogs and industry events, one over-arching question remains; what is the business value of this new […]
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what leaders should review, is alternative target operating models or big pictures and new business models for the enterprise, so that they can understand how the business will be changed and be able to make decisions.
what leaders should review, is alternative target operating models or big pictures and new business models for the enterprise, so that they can understand how the business will be changed and be able to make decisions.
By The Open Group The Open Group hosted the first TOGAF® User Group meeting on January 25, 2016 in San Francisco. With over 50,000 certified users in more than 120 countries, the intent of the TOGAF User Group was to … Continue reading →
“Customer-centricity” is one of the biggest tags in the tag cloud to the right. My first post this year was “Is 2016 the Year for Customer-Focused IT?”. It’s a concept that I find vitally important to IT for the simple … Continue reading →
From my very first post, I’ve been writing on the subject of “accidental architecture”, which is also sometimes confused with “emergence”. From the picture on the right (which I used previously on a post titled “Accidental Architecture”), it should be easy to infer what my opinion is in regard to the idea that coherent system […]
Two weeks ago, we wrote about the impact of multi-speed IT on the IT organization and enterprise architecture. Let us now talk about the different options for managing a multi-speed IT approach.
Enterprise-architecture: yeah, so much of it is kinda abstract… – all that ‘meta-’ and stuff. Which turns many people off, big-time. Unfortunately, “all that ‘meta-’ and stuff” is really important: it helps people explore the real complexities of their own enterprise,…
When we are hired as an architect we often try to address the major problems first. We do this in various ways, but we will always try to look at the whole picture and try to find the underlying problem(s) and design solutions. We quite naturally find this way the right one without asking ourselves … Continue reading Address the known or the unknown problems →
More than 10 billion Euros will be spent on 16 new hospital construction projects in Denmark. One of the larger projects, dubbed a “super-hospital,” is in Odense, where the budget is 1.3 billion Euros. The New Odense University Hospital (…
Enterprise Architecture and Security Taking a quick break from our…