I have been interested in myths and legends for as long as I can remember, thrilling to the adventures of the heroes and heroines that battled the forces of darkness, …
Reinventing IT: How Strategic Enterprise Design Leads Digital Transformation
Enterprise IT is broken. Ask any person in “the business” – and to IT that means anyone else – what they think about IT, and you get a blank stare …
The Buried Treasure of Enterprise Architecture
Enterprises make architectural investments, whether or not they have an architecture team. Yet, executives can often find it hard to put a value on those investments, or even know which …
Business Process Modelling Patterns
Reusable process model fragments for business users. The idea of a pattern language, which originates in a 1977 book about buildings and their architecture, translates easily to other kinds of …
Architecture Is Architecture Is Architecture
In 1980, we were having difficulty transforming the Enterprise Strategy into implemented systems, the instantiated Enterprise, because the strategies tended to be articulated in a somewhat abstract form like “Make …
Synthesizing your Architecture’s Strategic Guidance
Introduction In the first article of this series, I discussed the current interest in Business Architecture that has been brewing in the last little while and also discussed some of …
Twenty years on, and stakeholders still don’t speak architect…
Twenty years ago, the US Congress signed an Act known as The Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA). The Act made it a legal requirement for US Federal agencies to appoint a CIO …
Are you Suffering from EA Model Sickness?
Working within the field of enterprise architecture, my team and I sadly encounter the disease ‘model sickness’ or see evidence of being ‘model sick’ all too often! This serious, yet …
Putting Process at the Centre of Business Management
Enabling the increasingly impossible demand to do even more with even less. We traditionally manage organisations via the template laid out by the organisation chart. Yet not one of the entities …
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