Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Extracted from Re/Code “Big Tech Is Going Down” with my comments in brackets. “The pace and nature of change in the core underlying technologies, product development, selling models and buying […]
When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types […]
My previous post, Understanding Which Investments Should go to the Cloud, I opened the door to a discussion around qualifying opportunities for the cloud, and looked at the best ways to determine what’s right for your organization. Today, I’m going…
My previous post, Understanding Which Investments Should go to the Cloud, I opened the door to a discussion around qualifying opportunities for the cloud, and looked at the best ways to determine what’s right for your organization. Today, I’m going…
In my last post in this series, “CIO Priorities for the Next 3 Years”, we examined the future of Corporate IT, and made some predictions on what CIO priorities for the next three years might be. According to research from…
In my last post in this series, “CIO Priorities for the Next 3 Years”, we examined the future of Corporate IT, and made some predictions on what CIO priorities for the next three years might be. According to research from…
In her wildly popular book, Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, Dr. Jeanne Ross describes the use of “core diagrams” in Enterprise Architecture. Shortly after introducing the notion of “operating models”, she provided fou…
For those that are attending the Open Group conference in San Francisco here in the next few weeks from now I wanted to let you know that I will be presenting. My presentation is within the Cloud Strategy and SOA…
I ran across a very interesting article on HBR this morning entitled, “Making Your Strategy More Relevant”. It’s a great read and completely applies to Enterprise Architecture and the strategies we create. There are some good tips and observations included…
Some of you have asked about what I am doing these days at Microsoft. So I thought I would let you all know. I joined the Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Team back in November of last year to build a…
The more time I spend as an Enterprise Architect, the more I realize just how important this role is. Yet, the stories that we tell fail to bring across that value. Our metaphors (framework, capability, roadmap) are woefully inadequate to c…
Jeanne Ross author of the very popular book among Enterprise Architects, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy just released a webcast today that is interesting. If you have access to this resource it is worth a watch. Link: http://ow.ly/3vDBl Technorati Tags: EA,Enterprise…