Back on business-models again, this time with more of an emphasis on the implications for enterprise-architecture, rather than solely for business-architecture. The initial challenge posed by my colleague was to describe my own business model, by which he meant “how …
As the old phrase warns us, “vision without implementation is just hallucination”. That’s why all architects do some form of design, and ideally guide the implementation too. But do enterprise-architects design the enterprise? And if so, how do they do …
Oh not, not again… looks like the Open Group members are about to muddy the enterprise-architecture pool once more, this time around business-architecture… Please, please, we desperately do not need another taxonomy-disaster like the infamous ‘four architectures’ of the ADM: …
People seem to struggle so much with the word ‘enterprise’ in ‘enterprise-architecture’. So often they seem to think it’s about technology. Or money. But if you want to understand ‘enterprise’, look for the story. And if you want to see …
To understand shared-enterprise, look for the tattoos Read more »
Yep, it’s red-rag time, folks… 🙂 Sometimes I really do despair of ‘enterprise’-architecture that completely fails to understand the difference between enterprise and organisation, or that mistakes the concerns of a single stakeholder group for the aims of the enterprise as …
Why the bottom-line doesn’t come first in enterprise-architecture Read more »
Most of the Yabbies novel is made up of story-fragments that in principle could come together in any sequence: we make sense of them in whatever way we choose. What follows is perhaps my favourite story-fragment, “Mishie’. (A gentle reminder …
All right, I admit it: my novel Yabbies doesn’t say much about real-life yabbies. In fact they only put in one cameo appearance in the whole book: “Yabbies. Funny little things, all in their own world at the bottom of …
Happy to announce that I’ve at last gotten round to publishing my sort-of-novel Yabbies. Hooray! 🙂 (I perhaps ought to say ‘completed and published’, but as you’ll see, ‘completing’ isn’t quite the right word, since much of the content is …
I must admit I’m pleased with this brief interview, filmed by the AV crew at AE Rio 2011 (many thanks, guys!). It covers a lot of ground in barely four minutes: the importance of stories and culture in enterprise-architecture, key …
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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’ …