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One of my startup heroes Steve Blank wrote in a blog post that “value proposition is the fancy name for your product or service” It is with some trepidation that...027/01/2013

How To Understand The Difference Between Value-Proposition and a Product or Service

One of my startup heroes Steve Blank wrote in a blog post that “value proposition is the fancy name for your product or service” It is with some trepidation that…

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...025/01/2013

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…

I’ve been reading some excellent material lately about the perilous task of building data warehouse capability. It cause me to reflect on my own learning from running large enterprise data...001/04/2012

Top 10 Tips for Data Warehouse Developers

I’ve been reading some excellent material lately about the perilous task of building data warehouse capability. It cause me to reflect on my own learning from running large enterprise data…

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...006/03/2012

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…

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...103/03/2012

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…

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...1328/02/2012

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…

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’...026/02/2012

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’…

“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...824/02/2012

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…

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...222/02/2012

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…

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...022/02/2012

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…