[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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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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