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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[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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This post is about enterprise-architecture and business-architecture, but we’ll first need a brief diversion into some of the territory of the previous few posts. (Note: I’m using the term ‘enterprise’ here in the same sense as the IEEE-1471 standard, to mean …

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“Information overload!”, wails my colleague Anders Østergaard on Twitter, “I want vacation, now!” Well, if you need a vacation, and there’s none available, surely there’s always the option of an anti-vacation? Let me explain – from my current first-hand experience. …

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