What methodology-frameworks do we need for broad-scope enterprise-architecture in a human-services government-department? This is the second of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create a tool that will help people make sense…
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Metaframeworks in practice, Part 2: Iterative-TOGAF
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: after action review, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, frameworks, metaframework, methodology, paradigm, PDCA, sense-making, togaf
Showing my age, I guess…
Am I really showing my age, as an enterprise-architect? Or perhaps I should do even more? Dunno, quite… I had a blog-comment this morning from Christopher Lace, in response to a TOGAF-related blog-post of mine from back in May 2009:…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: Business, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, togaf
Enterprise Transformation and Open Group
Enterprise-architecture is dead – long live enterprise-transformation! Or so it would seem, from the description of the current Open Group conference at Cannes. Yet is all as it seems? I’d have to admit that the conference-programme does worry me a bit. Despite…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise transformation, Open Group, paradigm, togaf
On Archimate 2.0
Archimate 2.0 is now available – its formal release was at the end of January 2012, during the Open Group conference in San Francisco. I’ve been a bit busy in the meantime, so this is the first chance I’ve had…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, togaf
IT-centrism, business-centrism and business-architecture
This one continues the recent theme of IT-centrism and why it’s such a problem for enterprise-architecture, but extends it into a slightly different direction, courtesy of a Tweet yesterday by Ron Tolido: rtolido: interesting stuff coming soon around a global…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, IT-centrism, Open Group, togaf
Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 3)
A set of Tweets from the third and final main day (01 Feb 2012) of the Open Group conference in San Francisco, collated via the#ogSFO hashtag. (Tweets from Day 1 are here; from Day 2 are here.) Once again, many thanks indeed to…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Open Group, togaf
Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 2)
A set of Tweets from the second day (31 Jan 2012) of the Open Group conference in San Francisco, collated via the#ogSFO hashtag. (Tweets from Day 1 are here.) Once again, many thanks indeed to all those who Tweeted, to help us…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Open Group, togaf
Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 1)
A set of Tweets from the first day (30 Jan 2012) of the Open Group conference in San Francisco, collated via the #ogSFO hashtag. Many thanks indeed to all those who Tweeted, to help us all get a better picture…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Open Group, togaf
How IT-centrism creeps into enterprise-architecture
A kind of follow-up to the previous post ‘IT-oriented versus IT-centric‘, this one starts from a Tweet from the Open Group’s official TOGAF Twitter-account: togaf_r: TOGAF Resource: The TOGAF 9.1 changes overview and 6 other slide decks are now at…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, IT-centrism, togaf
How not to define business-architecture…
Oh no, not again… Having all but crippled enterprise-architecture for the past decade with a muddled mess of myopia and misdefinitions, it seems Open Group are hell-bent on making the same kind of mess in business-architecture… I need to be…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Open Group, togaf
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