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Types of Cost
When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types…
Enterprise Architecture Change is Coming. Are You Ready?
There is an impending change coming. In many ways this change is being driven by the move into The Cloud, (the commoditization of IT) and the move to Bring Your…
10 Unexpected Reasons Why Your Business Needs the Capability to Adapt
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” – Oscar Wilde You’ve all heard the typical anecdotes about the speed of growth of the Internet and Twitter. Here is…
The Fun-damental Laws of Enterprise Architecture
This is largely an extract of Wikipedia’s Eponymous Lays page. I have added a few other items along the way. There are 3 sections: Fun Laws, General Laws & Technology…
The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does
This is some dot points from an excellent article by Richard Veryard discussing Stafford Beer’s maxim that the “Purpose Of a System Is What It Does” or “POSIWID“. Richard points…
What is Enterprise Architecture? – A presentation review of Erik Dörnenburg
This is some notes that I took whilst watching a presentation by Erik Dörnenburg (@erikdoe), Head of Technology Europe at ThoughtWorks. The presentation is titled “What is enterprise architecture?” and…
Enterprise Architecture Definitions
Definitions of Enterprise Architecture Gartner Definition of Enterprise Architecture “The process of translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating and improving the key requirements, principles…
20 Key Concepts Every Enterprise Architects Should Know
This article written by Alex Matthews (@remembermytweet) OK, so here is a quick brainstorm of key concepts that every EA should know. It is literally a 5 minute brainstorm exercise…
EA Links
Important Enterprise Architecture Sources This Enterprise Architecture Blog and Enterprise Architecture Blog, The Enterprise Advocate Rating = 10/10 of course *grin* The Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Blog. The is Brad Meyers’…
Why Platform Integration is Important
This is a humorous image that could be used in a presentation for impact. This post has no content. Enterprise Architecture Related articles Enterprise architecture and enterprise transformation: Related but…
Are traditional enterprise architecture metaphors valid?
“It is useful to be aware that analogies are tools for leverage, and indeed part of their utility is not just in extracting the insights they bring with, but insights…
Enterprise Architecture Analogies
“It is useful to be aware that analogies are tools for leverage, and indeed part of their utility is not just in extracting the insights they bring with, but insights…
Is Enterprise Architecture a Thing? If so, is it useful?
The ability of the Enterprise Architecture community to ruminate and argue about the definition of EA seems just about limitless. The latest of which is a debate about the Wikipedia…
The Tracey & Wiersema Value Discipline Model – Part 1
Introduction The Treacy & Wiersema Value-Discipline Model was first published in the ground-breaking Harvard Business Review article “Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines,” (c. 1993) and was expanded in a…
Enterprise Architecture Body Of Knowledge (EABOK)
The Enterprise Architecture Body Of Knowledge The Enterprise Architecture Body Of Knowledge (EABOK) is a definition of the body of knowledge for Enterprise Architecture. The EABOK was developed by Mitre…
Highlights of Len Fehsken’s “Re-thinking Architecture
This link [http://is.gd/g55wp] is a very interesting read about the scope and nature of enterprise architecture that helps to clarify a very widely misunderstood (because it is still embryonic) discipline….
The A-Z Guide to Being an Architect
“An A-Z Guide to Being an Architect” by Mark Bloodworth and Marc Holmes is a lighthearted article outlining a number of key attributes of architects. An extract is below. Is there…
Adrian Grigoriu’s EA Framework
Adrian Grigoriu‘s Enterprise architecture framework definition. This is a extract of Adrian’s www.ebizq.net blog post “An Enterprise Architecture framework definition“. It is a very enlightening post by Adrian at a time when…
Summary of the Business Architecture Working Group’s (BAWG) Nobel Prize Case Study
The Nobel Prize Case study workshop was conducted & presented at the Open Group Conference in Amsterdam (2010) The session was led by Harry Hendrickx – CTO at Hewlett Packard….
Reasons that business may come asking for “Enterprise Architecture”
This article could also be entitled “Reasons business may come asking for help, where enterprise architecture thinking and techniques can be applied (without mentioning EA)” At the start of 2010…