All aspects of business knowledge
What happens at the other end of enterprise-architecture? What local knowledge is needed to implement the abstractions of an overall architecture ‘blueprint’ in real practice in the real world? Whilst reviewing research for another book (in another subject area, somewhat …
Following the trail of links from a starting-point provided by David Gurteen‘s knowledge-management newsletter brought me to a collective of IT-related types in Sweden (I think?) who post to a blog called The Content Economy. Very much worth reading, from …
The implied hierarchy in that headline above is something of a chestnut in knowledge-management circles. Especially because of its risible final implication: if we have data-management, information-management and knowledge-management, shouldn’t we have wisdom-management too? Well, actually, yes – but not …
Now back in Colchester, England, after the successful completion of my enterprise-architecture gig with NSW Dept of Community Services. And of course not only have a serious dose of jetlag to contend with, but a vile cold too – another …
For understanding about narrative-knowledge and non-IT-based knowledge in general, and how to access it and use it in large organisations, there’s no-one better in the world than Shawn Callahan and his Australian colleagues at Anecdote Pty Ltd. So if you’re …
Enterprise-architecture again. As promised, I’ve completed some notes on the Visio 2003 template for building a function model. It’s nothing fancy, just using as much as I can of Visio’s ‘shapesheet’ functionality (deliberately no VBA, otherwise you’d get endless complaints …
More enterprise-architecture stuff. Plodding on with Function Model development for my current client – this model being the business anchor for a whole string of other models such as the Business Systems Model, the Information Systems Model and so on …
Heading homeward after the TOGAF enterprise-architecture conference in Paris. Went well, I think – which it needed to, given the frightening amount of money I spent to get there from Aus! A sense that the field is in somewhat of …
Rushing to get everything ready for the trip to Sydney this evening, but I have completed the first draft of the enterprise-architecture book. Working-title is “Real Enterprise-Architecture: Beyond IT to the whole enterprise“. You’ll find the PDF here – though …
Apologies for being a bit quiet lately: I’m working flat-out on a mini-book on enterprise-architecture, with the aim of having it ready, preferably in printed form, in time for the next TOGAF conference, in Paris, in late April 2007 (23-25, …