Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
Sharing experience as an Enterprise Architect, Business Strategist, Business Performance Manager, Business Architect and Solution Architect. Twitter:@Gabriel_Morgan
Mastering Strategic Planning Through Concepts
Chess Grandmasters master the application of concepts and apply them to situations. I study chess...
Date: 11/12/2013
Inspiration As A Strategy
As you may have heard, Forbes magazine published their America's Top 25 Most Inspiring Companies...
Date: 10/07/2013
Engineer strategic planning to align your company. Don't reverse-engineer another company's strategic plan.
My engineering background encourages me automate processes. My architect experience encourages me to...
Date: 10/07/2013
The Business Architect, Business Performance Manager, Business Strategy Manager, Business Planner Job Description
I’ve written several job descriptions for Business Architect, Business Performance Manager,...
Date: 08/19/2013
Top Strategy and Planning Lessons Learned
I’ve spent a few years designing and facilitating strategy and planning processes (aka...
Date: 07/30/2013
The Big 8 Business Objectives
Welcome to financial year 2014! Whew! July marks the new financial year and for some of us, the end...
Date: 07/19/2013
Business Performance Management, the next big thing…again
We all possess the gene to want to solve problems when faced with them. It’s human nature....
Date: 11/18/2012
The Planning Paradox
One of my uncle’s favorite jokes goes like this: Greg: “Hey Gabriel, say to me ‘what’s the most...
Date: 11/14/2012
Business Architect Skills Assessment
Six years ago I posted a blog article called Solution Architect Skills Idea. At the time, I was a...
Date: 11/12/2012
How do you reward failure?
I was a participant in a recent survey facilitated by the Corporate Executive Board’s...
Date: 07/23/2012
Enterprise Architecture: First stop, Building Architecture, then on to a Science!
The Building Architecture industry is frustrated with IT Architecture. There is so much interest...
Date: 07/15/2012
IT Organizations, like any Business Support Organization, Deliver Business Value
As one traverses organizations in a company, the further you get from a business group responsible...
Date: 07/09/2012
Business Architecture is Business Performance Management with Engineering Rigor
I’ve been performing a Business Architect role within the Enterprise Architecture function...
Date: 06/26/2012
Strategically Federating IT
IT must rethink how to deliver on its promise to enable the business. IT-centric efforts are falling...
Date: 06/09/2011
Strategy and Planning Service as an Enterprise Architecture Offering
As mentioned in a previous post, I announced that our Enterprise Architecture team has made some...
Date: 02/03/2011
Effective Enterprise Roadmaps are designed to make change and track ‘effect’
I’ve come to some interesting conclusions regarding Roadmaps that I thought might be...
Date: 02/01/2011
A Breakthrough: Maturing EA to be a Catalyst to Transform the Company
It’s time to rethink enterprise architecture people. Well, at least here in Microsoft IT’s...
Date: 07/28/2010
Be GREAT !
Do you ever find yourself in the situation where you can be of help in several very different...
Date: 07/15/2010
Managing MSIT’s Enterprise Platform Portfolio
I have the fortunate opportunity to manage the Enterprise Platform portfolio for Microsoft IT and...
Date: 04/20/2010
Positive and Negative behaviors to look out for in Enterprise Architects
I’ve been fortunate to be in a position as a trusted advisor assess individuals during...
Date: 03/29/2010
Service Provider Paradigm Shift for Enterprise Architecture Teams
I recently had the opportunity to share an idea with a group of enterprise-level Architects and...
Date: 03/29/2010
Business Software Platforms are not Strategic
I want to share an idea that occurred to me and some of my colleagues, Dave Langer in particular,...
Date: 08/04/2009
Inappropriately comparing Building Architecture and Software Architecture
Mike Walker wrote a great little article describing that it is largely inappropriate to compare...
Date: 03/02/2009
Valuing the Undervalued Solution Model
Modeling helps improve the success of delivering a high-quality solution A primary responsibility of...
Date: 06/28/2008
Tips for gaining adoption
I began writing a quick response to Erik’s question in this blog about Architect’s high-order bit is...
Date: 06/06/2008
SaaS Service Offerings redefine what's in a product
As I continue my work on my little nook of Microsoft's S+S business strategy, the team I work with...
Date: 01/29/2008
Customer 2.0 is here and she has a major impact on business models and system architecture
One of the major tasks on my plate is understanding the impact of business systems to support the...
Date: 11/18/2007
SWABOK, Archipedia, Uber Architecture Framework, xyz?
Nick Malik wrote blog post "The culture of art vs. the culture of engineering" that described the...
Date: 10/09/2007
Service Delivery Platform (SDP) for the Enterprise
I'm noticing a lot of great improvements in Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, namely FEAF, TOGAF,...
Date: 09/28/2007
Adoption, rather than Architecture, is the high order bit for Architects
Over the years I've noticed a strange phenomenon, sometimes the most logical decision isn't the...
Date: 09/26/2007
Enterprise Architect vs Solution Architect
What exactly is an Enterprise Architect versus a Solution Architect? I'd like to chat about the...
Date: 09/02/2007
Skills from different experiences - Well rounded is King
I currently sit in Microsoft IT and get to share experiences and learn with some of the most...
Date: 08/31/2007
Enterprise Architecture Mapping Artifacts - They are very powerful so be very, very careful
I wrote a blog (found here) describing the relationship from Business Strategy to other Business...
Date: 08/16/2007
Traceability from Biz Strategy to Application to Data to Hardware...
Recently, I’ve had a number of conversations with folks regarding concepts at the enterprise-level...
Date: 07/31/2007
Business analysis for 'Consuming' SaaS Services
In a previous blog, I posted some considerations to assist analyzing a business for opportunities to...
Date: 07/19/2007
Business analysis for 'Providing' SaaS Services
Should a business offer a SaaS product? Hmmm, I think it might if all the right peices are there....
Date: 07/18/2007
Top-down, Bottom-up...but what is the 'Middle'?
There was a recent conversation between several folks on the topic of what Top-down is versus what...
Date: 07/13/2007
SaaS is not just SOA, S+S and Web 2.0
Microsoft has defined SaaS as "Software deployed as a hosted service and accessed over the...
Date: 07/06/2007
'Capability' - the micro-trendy word on its way to failure unless...
Is it just me or is the word ‘capability’ becoming a micro-trendy word and losing its meaning? I...
Date: 03/31/2007
Implementing System Quality Attributes
I recently participated in an IASA initiative to document skills needed by Software Architects. I...
Date: 03/20/2007
Successful enterprise systems that deliver Agility
Another idea to improve system quality … I’ve contributed to the delivery of several enterprise...
Date: 11/02/2006
Solution Architect Skills Assessment Idea
I’d like to talk about another idea I have for improving system architecture which is growing...
Date: 10/20/2006
System Design Process thought...
I wanted to follow up a note I mentioned in a previous blog I wrote on how to Manage System Quality...
Date: 10/12/2006
System Quality Attribute Plan
There are several things that architects do when building and delivering solutions but one of the...
Date: 10/03/2006
Design for Flexibility
First of all, let’s level set on the definition of system Flexibility. I quite like M. Barbacci’s...
Date: 10/03/2006