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Typically, the world of EA is boring. In this last few weeks, all bets are off as John Zachman goes to court and questions are raised about the near term and long term effects to the commercialization of EA Frameworks and the EA certification marketplace. It’s still early days, but challenges from the “father of EA” require consideration.
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Original question was precipitated by an exchange with Brian Sondergaard (@bsodberg):aleksb6 hmm.. if #bizarch’s major responsibility is to manage the org’s biz operating model(s), is bizarch next evolution of change mgmt? #entarch bsond…
We put our marker on what the focus of Enterprise Architecture should be a a year ago this week with the release of our vanilla EA Capability Map. Skip a year forward, and the conversation still rages as hotly as it did then. Perhaps it’s n…
A common misperception being hyped in EA circles concerns the notion that business architecture is something different from enterprise architecture. This is a blatant attempt to classify EA as something only applicable to IT when, in fact, EA is applicable to the ENTERPRISE that covers numerous viewpoints for stakeholders, including business, information, technology and solution […]
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"EA is now widely accepted s an essential mechanism for ensuring transparency, consistency, compliance and ultimately flexibility/agility in companies and public agencies"
from Robert Winter, & Elmar J Sinz. (2007). Enterprise Architecture. Information Systems and eBusiness Management, 5(4), 357-358. Retrieved August 29, 2010, from ABI/INFORM Global.
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For those interested in enterprise architecture it is “the continuous practice of describing the essential elements of a sociotechnical organization, their relationships to each other and to the environment, in order to understand complexity and m…
Thanks to the folks at OMG Business Ecology and especially Brenda Michelson, attendees at the inaugural “Optimization for Innovation” Conference in December will be treated to a very handy guide on how to manage organizations (and their buried messes) …
Sometimes it’s a just a little mental slip, but many times is purposeful obfuscation on the part of the person speaking. And, there’s only one reason to do such a terrible thing, that’s because the person speaking isn’t certain about what they’re talking about. The crowd-sourced definition of “architecture” on wikipedia gives a nod towards […]
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Who wrote the interview questions?
Face it – you are being hired as one of the top technical employees at the prospects company. Who is going to ask you questions? Chances are the interviewer didn’t create them and had somebody else to do this for the…
Hello Fellow Followers, I am sorry for the radio silence, but I have been extremely busy writing up my case studies for the last month. It is the biggest and most important part of my thesis. Luckily, I have been provided to really interesting cas…
It is not my intent in writing to this Enterprise Architecture blog to spend any time getting caught in the old-school EA mentality of thinking in an Enterprise Architecture-centric way. I share Mike Rolling’s of Burton Group’s perspective in this re…
Enterprise Architecture provides an engine to identify where tweaks & amendments need to be made in order to provide valid and coherent IT systems, process and infrastructure that supports business operations.One of the difficulties facing Program…