Another great enterprise-architecture question that came in via Twitter, this time from Swedish EA consultant Jörgen Dahlberg (@greblhad): Have you ever experienced regional character in the expression of #entarch ? My Twitter-sized answer was ‘yes’ – “IT ‘ent-arch’, not really; whole-of-ent …

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A great question this morning from Australian enterprise-architect Mike Aikins (@AussiMike): Noted some of your comments recently on how you feel more of a facilitator than the creator of an EA when working with a client. Question is how relevant/important …

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There’s been a long-running thread on LinkedIn about the purpose of enterprise-architecture. Started by Kevin Smith of Pragmatic EA fame, the aim was to provide the shortest-possible summary of the business-purpose for EA. For a long while most of the …

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[A great LinkedIn conversation with Bala Somasundaram came back to the question of how we describe the role of enterprise-architecture – especially in large organisations – and how we differentiate it from other enterprise-wide disciplines such as strategy, quality, change-management, …

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Listening to a podcast with Patti Anklam on the InMagic social-knowledge website – ‘Today’s collaboration imperative: a podcast with Patti Anklam‘ – reminded me of her previous posts some months back on the ‘Three KMs’, three distinct layers of knowledge-management …

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