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Notes on Enterprise Architecture, Business Alignment, Interesting Trends, and anything else that interests me this week...

Hello Enterprise Architects!  If you are seeing this post, you probably have your RSS feed set to my...

Date: 09/13/2016

The title of this post is a bit of advice I first heard many years ago, while working on an...

Date: 05/16/2015

Sometimes, Enterprise Architecture efforts fail.  This is no surprise to folks in the EA...

Date: 04/23/2015

The Enterprise Partner Supplier Customer (EPSC) Model sits as a core concept of Enterprise...

Date: 02/16/2015

I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that business strategy work is often about constrained...

Date: 01/29/2015

I’ve been asked a number of times over the years if I can explain the theory of Enterprise...

Date: 01/16/2015

So, full disclosure, I care about Wikipedia.  Call me dumb, I know.  Wikipedia has been...

Date: 11/21/2014

I’ve met many Architecture Managers over the years.  Sometimes they go by the title of “Chief...

Date: 11/11/2014

Organizations do not work, in real life, like they work on paper.  On paper, there are...

Date: 08/13/2014

This is the first time I’ve done this, so I’m hoping that my friends will contribute your opinions:...

Date: 07/23/2014

We all know that Google lost a landmark legal case recently.  As of now, a citizen of Europe...

Date: 06/30/2014

(Note: I've added an addendum to this post) It has been many years that we have lived with the...

Date: 06/24/2014

Business leaders demand alignment, right?  Many folks frame enterprise architecture (EA) as a...

Date: 06/03/2014

There are a spate of new Social Media apps that have emerged lately, all of which allow people to...

Date: 05/05/2014

I made an interesting mistake, today… one that comes up from time to time.  I used a business...

Date: 04/04/2014

One of the most common problems in Enterprise Architecture, and one I get asked about routinely, is...

Date: 03/10/2014

One of the most compelling things that an EA can do is frame the vision of a better future as a...

Date: 12/11/2013

I recently had the pleasure of joining a discussion among organizational development professionals....

Date: 10/23/2013

Can Social Media create new ideas? Here’s an example where the answer is “yes.” I...

Date: 10/14/2013

Since 2009, when I first published my open source metamodel of enterprise architecture (the...

Date: 09/30/2013

Have you seen practices that you know could kill an Enterprise Architecture practice?  I...

Date: 09/05/2013

One of the most common mistakes that people make about Enterprise Architects is the notion that we...

Date: 09/04/2013

Frequently, when reading articles or books on business architecture, the following advice emerges:...

Date: 08/24/2013

It still surprises me to see various discussions of business architecture where there is a poor...

Date: 08/19/2013

One of the chief complaints of senior executives in midsize and large companies is that their...

Date: 07/06/2013

As I’m about to complete my share of a longer engagement on using Lean principles to improve the...

Date: 06/11/2013

A question on LinkedIn recently reminded me that, as the team leader for Segment Architecture in my...

Date: 05/31/2013

In the world of Enterprise Architecture, we are still creating “shared” understanding of how to tell...

Date: 04/29/2013

I have, on occasion, been asked to spend time with an Enterprise Architecture team to help that team...

Date: 04/26/2013

One thing that happens when you work to develop change across an organization: you detect the...

Date: 04/22/2013

There is a contradiction that shows up in many books and articles on agile software...

Date: 04/16/2013

In Enterprise Architecture, one of the most important aspects of the job is not only to communicate,...

Date: 04/08/2013

As an architect involved in an agile implementation (my current gig), you can imagine how interested...

Date: 04/05/2013

As a lot, Enterprise Architects are not terribly humble people.  We name frameworks after...

Date: 02/26/2013

In the Open Group conference at Newport Beach, I listened to a series of presentations on business...

Date: 01/31/2013

I heard some very interesting talks today from Len Fehskens and Jeff Scott at the Open Group...

Date: 01/28/2013

I explained to one of my clients recently that there is a perception of animosity between the...

Date: 01/15/2013

The video below, from RSA Animate, is not about Enterprise Architecture.  At least, on the...

Date: 01/10/2013

To be fair, these are steps to create a solid understanding of the architecture of a business, but...

Date: 12/19/2012

I did a scan around the web to figure out what many of the leading thinkers were saying about IT...

Date: 12/09/2012

There is a new book available that I’d like to let everyone know about.  It is called “Stories...

Date: 11/04/2012

A recent experience with poor customer service has got me thinking about the role of EA in...

Date: 10/02/2012

Not long ago, I attempted to create a refined definition of “business architecture.” I...

Date: 09/11/2012

I’m putting together my presentations for TechEd New Zealand, one of which is titled...

Date: 08/27/2012

Way back in April, I announced the first of two podcasts with the Canadian Information Processing...

Date: 08/26/2012

Back when Alexander Osterwalder was first working on the book “Business Model...

Date: 08/22/2012

I just recently had a conversation with a talented enterprise architect who had brought together the...

Date: 08/10/2012

Haven’t  been to New Zealand yet, but I will be there soon… From September 4 through 7 in...

Date: 08/01/2012

The profession of Enterprise Architecture is beginning to emerge from its early stages of...

Date: 07/26/2012

As I found in our Enterprise Architecture team in Microsoft, each time an Enterprise Architect is...

Date: 07/09/2012

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