The media response was predictable, I suppose: sometimes considered and thoughtful – ‘France offers us all a new perspective‘ – but often sarcastic or dismissive – ‘Sarkozy proposes the joie de vivre index‘. Yet the recent report on economics models …

New economics models – what impact on enterprise architecture? Read more »

A few days ago my colleague John Polgreen posted an article of mine Adapting the ADM for Government Architectures on his ‘TOGAF for Feds’ blog on the (US) Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA.org) website. The main theme was that to …

TOGAF Phases B C D Read more »

Danny Greefhorst of Netherlands enterprise-architecture consultancy ArchiXL emailed me with a query about my book Doing Enterprise Architecture: I was especially interested in the part where you talk about architecture principles given that I am currently writing a book on …

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This one is a follow-up to a couple of comments by Pat Ferdinandi to my earlier post on “Annoyed at ‘Enterprise 2.0′”. I had explained in one of the comments that there’s a danger of a high-risk ‘term-hijack’ if conflating …

The enterprise, the organisation and the ‘big picture’ Read more »

Following up on my conversation with Chris Potts, a link to another enterprise-architecture group, the Global Enterprise Architecture Organisation – see http://www.geao.org/. Clicking on the ‘What we believe’ link on their home-page brought up this statement: We believe that the …

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