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Levels of Understanding

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What is distinctive about architectural thinking?I’ve been meaning to write a summary of the Levels of Architectural Understanding for some time. Finally I got around to it. You can read the post on LinkedIn Pulse: Levels of Architectural Understanding. Understanding is one of the eight fundamental factors in EA.

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The Open Group to Hold Next Event in San Francisco

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The Open Group, the vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its next event in San Francisco January 25-28. The Open Group San Francisco 2016 will focus on how Enterprise Architecture is empowering companies to build better systems by architecting for digital … Continue reading →

Ten notable books from 2015

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One of my routines around New Year is to look back at the books brought to the market in the last year that caught my attention. In this blog post, I will share my thoughts about the ten most notable books of the year. Notable 2015 additions to the enterprise architect’s bookshelf: Business Architecture Management:…

HDN (Hyperbolic Bayes Net) + Data Mining to Discover Tacit Knowledge and Map Clinical Pathways

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  Data consists of symbols that represent objects, events, and their properties. Information is data that has been made useful. Information answers the questions of who, what, where, when, and how many. Information is helpful in deciding what to do, not how to do it. Knowledge consists of instructions and know-how. Knowledge answers the ‘how’ […]

Big Data Analytics – Unlock Breakthrough Results: (Step 4)

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Continuing the series on Nine Easy Steps to Unlock Breakthrough Results, we now assign relative weights to each of the critical capabilities groups for each operating model uncovered earlier. This is done to assign the higher weightings to capability groupings most important to the success of each model. Having the quantified index means we can evaluate each platform or tool for optimization within quickly and produce meaningful results.

Systems and EA

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How does systems thinking really apply to enterprise architectureOne of the things I like most about the festive season is the chance to reset – there’s space and time to think about what happened in the previous year, what the future might bring, and most of all – time to spend with the special people in your…

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Enterprise Transformation through Enterprise Architecture 2016-01-05 12:40:22

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Architecting change is a holistic, systemic, big picture approach!   It is holistic in the sense that it covers information about everything, including infrastructure, information, process, knowledge, organization design, skills, and resources. This is an ambitious claim, but it is the information that is united through EA, which then makes it easier to manage the…

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