Here’s the slidedeck for “Enterprise-architecture on purpose”, my presentation to the Open Group conference in Rome, April 2010. It’s a slight departure from my usual slidedecks in that there’s no embedded script in the ‘Notes’ view; instead, I’ve used more …

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Sounds a simple-enough question, no doubt, but seems to me that most nominal ‘enterprise architects’ have never even bothered to ask it. The usual answer would seem to be ‘the organization’, or worse, ‘the IT department’… I’ve posted up on …

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Realised that the free-download reference-sheets from the Tetradian Enterprise Architecture books would be useful to have up on Slideshare as well, so have uploaded them there for more general accessibility than solely from the Tetradian Books website. “A framework for …

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And the last in the current series of slide-decks that I’ve placed on Slideshare. This one’s from early 2007, and describes some of the analysis that I did at that period to find ways to break free from the usual …

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Another slide-deck from a fair while back (2001, in this case), but still seems relevant today. Many of its quotes reference a section in The Economist edited by Peter Drucker, about ‘the business of the future’. [It’s in PDF format, …

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Another item from my slide-deck collection: this one’s based on some work I did for a client in 2007 on extending Zachman and TOGAF to meet their whole-enterprise architecture needs. It describes TOGAF 8, but much the same applies to …

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