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The stench of systemic decay

Posted on 28 October 2013 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, The Outsider — 2 Comments ↓

It was the smell that caught my attention first, I guess – the smell of chemicals as I walked through through the front door of their supposedly upmarket offices. But it’s something I’ve come to recognise, to watch for, as…

Metaframeworks in practice, Part 2: Iterative-TOGAF

Posted on 11 November 2012 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 2 Comments ↓

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…

Showing my age, I guess…

Posted on 1 November 2012 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge — 18 Comments ↓

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:…

Enterprise Transformation and Open Group

Posted on 23 April 2012 by

admin Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture — 3 Comments ↓

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…

On Archimate 2.0

Posted on 29 February 2012 by

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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…

IT-centrism, business-centrism and business-architecture

Posted on 3 February 2012 by

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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…

Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 3)

Posted on 2 February 2012 by

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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…

Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 2)

Posted on 1 February 2012 by

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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…

Tweets from Open Group conference, San Francisco (day 1)

Posted on 31 January 2012 by

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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…

How IT-centrism creeps into enterprise-architecture

Posted on 30 January 2012 by

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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…