For digital-transformation, what’s the difference between ‘push’ and ‘pull’? And where and how does enterprise-story come into the picture? At first, these questions might seem more about marketing and suchlike than about ‘digital’ as such – yet the reality is …

Push or pull? – two views of enterprise Read more »

What the heck is ‘enterprise-architecture’? Why are there are so many arguments on this, so many conflicting opinions? Perhaps a key clue is in the fact that there is so much argument about this? And that maybe the best way to …

What is enterprise? What is architecture? Read more »

If you want to understand what our enterprise-architecture disciplines really need to be able to address, take a good long look at the healthcare context. Complexity of every possible kind: whole-of-system interactions, interweaving lifecycles, the urgent mixed in with the long-term – …

Dump the financial incentives! Read more »

Yes, I know there hasn’t been much activity on this blog for quite a while now. But don’t worry. I’m still here, still busy as ever. It’s just that, right now, much of that work is necessarily appearing elsewhere. For …

I’m still here… Read more »

(Late again with this one – apologies…) For general reference, here’s the schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for 2019 second-quarter: Episode 62: ‘Rethinking projects: The Gantt chart‘ (published 04 April 2019) Episode 63: …

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(Running a bit late with this one – apologies…) For general reference, here’s the schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for 2019 first-quarter: Episode 49: ‘The usefulness of capability-maps‘ (published 03 January 2019) Episode …

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For general reference, here’s the schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for the current month and next month: Episode 40: ‘Modelling multiple forms of value‘ (published 01 November 2018) Episode 41: ‘Service-content: The decision-dimensions’ …

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For general reference, here’s the schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for the past month and next month: Episode 32: ‘Service-oriented enterprise-architecture‘ (published 06 September 2018) Episode 33: ‘Enterprise-architecture and digital-transformation‘ (published 13 September …

Architecture-videos schedule – September-October 2018 Read more »

If you’re in any kind of business, you’ll know who your clients are: you deal with them every day. And serving their needs will no doubt take up much of your attention, too. And you, or someone in your organisation, …

Who are your anti-clients? Read more »

One of the great things about doing my ‘Tetradian on Architectures‘ mini-video series is that I get to tackle real-world questions about everyday enterprise-architecture, sent in by people all around the world. In this case, for the current episode in …

Building effectiveness in a small business Read more »