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IT-centrism and real-world enterprise-architecture

Posted on 24 March 2014 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 2 Comments ↓

Is there an IT-based solution to every business problem? And is the IT-based solution always the most efficient and effective option? One of my more constant struggles in EA is to get supposed ‘enterprise architects’ to think about each context in its…

Efficient, effective, convenient?

Posted on 30 January 2014 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 13 Comments ↓

Is convenience even more fundamental to an enterprise than either efficiency or effectiveness? That’s the curve-ball that Nick Gall threw to me, in a comment on my earlier post ‘Efficient versus effective‘. It’s quite a long comment (and, unfortunately, quite…

Efficient versus effective (an addendum)

Posted on 29 January 2014 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture — 2 Comments ↓

What is efficiency? From whose perspective? Just a quick follow-on to the previous post ‘Efficient versus effective‘, with a couple of insights that came up just after I’d published it. First is that the distinction between efficient and effective is often…

Efficient versus effective

Posted on 29 January 2014 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Society — 2 Comments ↓

What is ‘efficiency’? – in particular, ‘efficiency’ in any system that’s subject to real-world variances? Starting-point for this one was yet another passing item in my Twitterstream: RT @MentalHealthCop: If providers are contractually obliged to run hospitals at 98% capacity, is…