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 …
Architecting Change as a Core Competency
In a recent article for Forbes I wrote that enterprise architects (EAs) should be less agents of change as architects of change. In response, several EAs commented that what they …
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 …
To Be, or Not To Be – Why EAs are also Scenario Planners
Enterprise Architects are valued for their impact on reality. To achieve that impact, they have to imagine some not-yet-real future, compare it with today, figure out how best to get …