Zen and the Art of Enterprise Architecture
Architectural Zen: The Harmony of Business and Technology
Enterprise Architecture: Reflections on My Journey of Becoming A Systems Thinking Enterprise Architect
Although I have been practicing enterprise architecture for more than 10 years, I still find it...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 10/16/2013
Fragility of Markets and Architecture Failure
As the NASDAQ exchange came to a grinding halt this past week, I, as well as many of you perhaps...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 08/24/2013
Deep Thinking on The Architecture of Architecture: Meta-Architecture
As many of you have already have known, Enterprise Architecture and Architecture within the context...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 02/20/2013
Addressing the Multi-Dimensionality Challenge on Thinking of The Enterprise as a System
Last week I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the Open Group conference in Newport...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 02/02/2013
The Antifragile Enterprise: Complexity Exists, but Let's Not Overcomplicate it or IT.
The Enterprise is a complex system. I have accepted that fact. I think many of us in the enterprise...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 01/26/2013
Enterprise Architecture's Transition to Consumer Oriented Services
Unless you have been living in cave for the past five or so years, you may have noticed that...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 10/05/2012
Modernizing Enterprise Architecture: Address The Neurosis of IT
“TCP/IP and Ethernet will not be accepted as a valid network implementation as SNA and Token...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 05/07/2012
The Evolution of the Modern Enterprise Architect
At the Open Group Conference in San Francisco earlier this month Dr. Jeanne Ross from MIT CISR made...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 02/18/2012
Rethinking the Enterprise "Mess" Using a System Thinking Approach
I have long considered the discipline of “architecture” as a problem solving technique...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 02/14/2012
Axioms for Modern Enterprise Architecture
Recently many of my colleagues were engaged in a healthy debate of principles around enterprise...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 09/16/2011
The Systems Thinking Architect
I was recently visiting a client and presenting a case study on the value of architecture. As I...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 08/30/2011
Architecture Considerations around Fabric Computing
Architecture Considerations around Fabric Computing The fabric concept has been around since 1998,...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 02/28/2011
Architecting for Fitness using Complex Adaptive Systems
Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 09/13/2010
The New World of Emergent Architecture and Complex Adaptive Systems
Over the years, we architects have been taught to design systems that maintain equilibrium. We...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 08/10/2010
The Passionate Architect
"There is nothing more horrible than to walk to fault line between new and old, seeing what the...
Author: Alan Hakimi Date: 06/25/2010