There is a great article from Nicholas Carr that is worth a read called " Is Google Making Us Stupid?" . There is a similar article on the New York Times site as well called " Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? " There is...

Recently I was asked to chime in on how to setup a global enterprise asset roadmap strategy. This was a fully loaded question and also a tricky one to answer. It is not an easy task as there is a number of forces at play and are extremely dynamic based...

Have you ever tried to compare EA frameworks? How do you compare and are all frameworks the same. The reader digest version of the answer is: No... Not all frameworks are the same but rather have there own definitions of what they are to deliver. I have...

For those who didn't get the updates. Here is a summary of the activates at the Open Group Conference in Chicago. The Open Group’s 19th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference kicked off on Monday, July 21st in Chicago.  Industry leaders...

For those interested, the 2008 Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) will happen again this year. Each year my team organizes this conference so that top architects from around the world can get together to collaborate on key challenges in the industry...

The Open Group has recently released a draft version of a SOA ontology . They have been developing a formal ontology for SOA for some time now. You can find the ontology described in OWL-DL also. This should give the ontology a more complete level of...

In a recent article on Network World they highlight security issues with the cloud. Jon Brodkin extracts his thoughts from a Gartner report titled “ Assessing the Security Risks of Cloud Computing .” If you had seen my last post on Challenges...

As a new member of the Architecture Journal Board I would like to let everyone that reads my blog that the upcoming Architecture Journal is accepting articles from you. If you haven't seen or heard of the journal it's worth a look. For the most part we...

Great post on Jeff Adkin's blog, Service Oriented Abstraction . As many of you know I have talked about this too ( ITIL moving towards EA & Making Sense of EA Standards ). This is further evidence that these disjointed enterprise functions are starting...

Recently the term Global Enterprise Architecture has been floating around. I find myself wondering if this is yet another fluffy EA term.  Is it the same as Enterprise Architecture or is there something special about it? Well, yes and no. We are...

Many have asked for source code to the Loan Origination Reference Architecture and now it's on CodePlex. Source Code http://www.codeplex.com/los/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=15173 Home Page http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/orlos

I thought I would write this potentially controversial post about how traditional productivity tools such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio) can still play a role in the architecting process. Whether we like it or not the Office tooling...

Over the past month there has been a flurry of interest in what is referred to as the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK). The last mention of the EATK was in my post recapping the Japan Strategic Architecture Forum I mentioned the launch of the EATK...

An interesting post from Bill Zack on " What topics architects are interested in? ". While it doesn't give us the breadth that we would like, it does give us an idea what keeps these 25 IASA architects up late in New York City. It interesting...

I really enjoyed reading the " 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud " post from Stacey Higginbotham . She highlights some very important points in here analysis. She outlines the following challenges with the cloud: 1...

  If you haven't heard or been to the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference your missing out. This is a great conference for architects. Whether your Microsoft specific or not. Topics range from process, tooling, business and IT strategy. ...