enterprise

A week in Tweets: 21-27 November 2010

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Almost caught up with the backlog: another week’s-worth of Tweets and links, usual categories, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link:

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and other business-type stuff:

thoughttrans: RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth’s Blog: Groping for a marketing solution: TSA and security theater http://bit.ly/9P5fVx <agree: time for a serious rethink #bizarch
vernaallee: RT @Gartner_inc: Gartner Identifies Four Converging Trends […]

What have software executives ever done for us?

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@JohnSchlesinger asks What has the enterprise architect ever done for us? (@AtosOriginBlog, November 2010)

John criticizes the IBM strategy in the late 1980s, especially the emphasis on Systems Application Architecture (SAA) and the neglect of CICS an…

Organizational architect as fixer

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In his post Hire An Architect, Seth Godin thinks of the organizational architect as a kind of fixer.

“Organizational architects know how to find suppliers, use the cloud (of people, of data, of resources), identify freelancers, tie together disparate …

Visual Cliché in Architectural Discourse

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@JohnCleese has made some great management training films, published by his company Video Arts. In the one I remember most vividly, he mocked the compulsive need for visual aids in corporate presentations by imagining what Hamlet’s soliloquy would be l…

Strategy by Design

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Great tweet from @judyrees this morning. “Metaphor can create powerful insights that become distortions, as the way of seeing created through metaphor becomes a way of not seeing.”

When people talk about the “alignment” or “gap” between business a…

Wisdom of Confucius

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#entarch My friend @taotwit appeals to a saying of Confucius in relation to enterprise architecture.

What is necessary is to call things by their right names. … If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If lang…

Maintaining a Service Mentailty

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On Twitter, Brenda Michelson of Elemental Links started a conversation with the question: Do #entarch frameworks enable or constrain practice of (value from) enterprise architecture? In my comments back to Brenda, it became clear to me that there’s a trap that many teams fall into, not just Enterprise Architecture, and that’s falling into an inward […]

Can IT Make a Competitive Difference: From a Coherency Architect’s Point of View.

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The Introduction Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee has written the paper “Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference” that was published in 2007 in by Harvard Business Review. The paper deals with how enterprises deals with competition in the United States. McAfee & Brynjolfsson argues that most enterprises are in state of hard […]

Enterprise Architecture Must Assist Delivery

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A challenge for virtually any position with “Enterprise” in the title, but especially so with Enterprise Architecture, is to continually show that they are adding value to the organization. Why? Because typically enterprise architects are not directly associated with delivery. In most IT organizations, things get delivered through projects, and enterprise architects don’t typically play […]

Next Generation EA

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Come join us for Architecture Friday in Antwerp on 26 June about next generation enterprise architecture, as seen by two Australians and a Dane: Peter Bernus (wp) and Pat Turner, and me. If you want to participate, get in touch (you may get a discount code!). Peter Bernus chairs IFIP WG5.12 Architectures for Enterprise Integration,