Just been reading (via Tweet by Bill Ives) a post by Anne Marie McEwan on ‘Loosening the Taylorist Stranglehold on the Workplace‘. Within a much larger context in a very good article, this one brief section caught my attention: The …
Each enterprise has its own distinct language. More to the point, the enterprise-architecture is a language. I probably need to take a step or two back at this point… For quite some while I’ve been using the metaphor of ‘hologram’ …
[A slightly risky post, this, given the unfortunate history between myself and Dave Snowden: but I want to emphasise that it is in good faith, as a genuine enquiry that I believe would be of real value to those of …
As mentioned in the previous post, one of the key characteristics of ‘crossing the chasm’ to a viable whole-of-enterprise architecture is the explicit inclusion of people. In short, we need to be able to model and map where people fit …
This one extends the models-for-enterprise-architecture theme from the previous post. Although for me this theme goes back a long way, the start-point here was a Tweet from Dutch EA consultant Martin van den Berg (@bergmart) that triggered off a veritable …
A great discussion yesterday with Mike Turner reminded me that there are two radically different roles for enterprise-architects: the internal enterprise-architect the external enterprise-architect They’re both focused on ‘the architecture of the enterprise’, but it’s important not to mix them …
Architects are designers too. Application-architecture designs link across an array of applications, process-architects design ways to link processes together, business-architects design business-models and their linkage into the everyday practices of the organisation. That much should be obvious, I would presume. …
In part this is a follow-on from the previous post on the fundamental flaws underlying all forms of currency, but it also has many implications for businesses, enterprise-architectures, societal models, corporate social responsibility and much else besides. And don’t worry, …
Back at the launch of TOGAF 9, some eighteen months ago, one of the Open Group leads took me aside to a quiet corner of the hall. He looked around, as if to make sure that none of his colleagues …
This one starts from a Tweet by social-media guru Oscar Berg: oscarberg: Social media would be easier to introduce in organizations if it was called “collaborative media” So easy to picture an angry boss yelling at employees around the water-cooler: “Oi! …